dws@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Don Saklad) (03/15/86)
About online fare and schedule information--has anyone heard about something like the OAG for railroads?
cb@hlwpc.UUCP (C Blesch) (03/17/86)
> About online fare and schedule information--has anyone heard about > something like the OAG for railroads? Since Amtrak and VIA Rail have the passenger train monopoly, they probably have control over any and all online information, and I'm not sure they provide it to others electronically. My travel agents, who are computerized for airline reservations, call in my train reservations by old-fashioned voice telephone. Carl Blesch
tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) (03/19/86)
The Official Guide information is available (besides the old hard-copy way) via certain airline computers. If your travel agent uses PARS or SABRE, they will be able to print train tickets as easily as they print airline tickets. It is true that the agent may not know how to generate train tickets from such a system. Some travel agents may also have direct hook-ups to ARROW, but I can't be sure of that. ARROW is amtk's reservation/ticket computer. -- <std dsclm, copies upon request> Tanner Andrews
shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro) (03/19/86)
In article <690@hlwpc.UUCP> cb@hlwpc.UUCP (C Blesch) writes: >> About online fare and schedule information--has anyone heard about >> something like the OAG for railroads? > >Since Amtrak and VIA Rail have the passenger train monopoly, >they probably have control over any and all online information, >and I'm not sure they provide it to others electronically. >My travel agents, who are computerized for airline reservations, >call in my train reservations by old-fashioned voice telephone. > >Carl Blesch I don't know what kind of system your travel agent has but the travel agency that I own has a TWA PARS system and we can get schedules, availability, and issue tickets for AMTRAK directly with that system. I thought that American's Sabre System also had that capability and I suspect that those systems that don't will soon catch up. Bob Shapiro