An airline-owned organisation that collects and distributes fares and fare rules from airlines to GDSs and other systems. Most published airline fares, their rule categories, and the data used for automated pricing and reissue reach booking systems through ATPCO.
Why it matters
When a GDS prices an itinerary or calculates an automated exchange, it is applying fare and rule data published through ATPCO. ATPCO also maintains standards for branded fares and ancillary filing.
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