Originally Posted by jetsetter
In college I worked as a travel agent, and it was extremely useful to be able to pull up my PNR. I could access CO, AA, US, and perhaps 1-2 others.
Can I get a subscription somehow directly with Sabre that would enable me to access my AA/US PNRs? Can I get a subscription with another GDS to
I wish the site owners would just do it anyway even if AA doesn't like it, and maybe somehow off shore it so that the USA laws cannot touch them!access DL or UA PNRs?
I have some very specific reasons why I need this information, so even if a Sabre subscription costs $60 a month I may even do it for a short time.
Plus there is the "thrill factor" of seing something you "aren't supposed" to see!
I wish the site owners did it, showed PNR, in spite of AA wishes!
It strikes me too that some agt could open up a gray market business ofr people like me so I don't have to pay $60 a month for a full Sabre subscription, and maybe I would pay them some amount for them to send me my PNRs for when I need or want to review them!
Also as an aside, I believe that the US DOT has the ability to get your PNR from an airline if it is in the course of a DOT consumer investigation, and I believe that in the UK they have a law that we should have in USA where a person can demand from a company to see any and all electronic records that said company keeps about you!
You raise some interestig points. But access to a PNR, originated by an airline (i.e. res made on their web site) is controlled by that airline. The airline can specifically control, on an agency by agency basis (and expertflyer too as it pertains to this thread), who can access their PNRs. If the PNR is originated by an agency, then the agency, and any other related agencies it controls, have access to it.
Your idea of an agency setting up a "gray market" to offer a PNR viewing service is very dangerous for that agency. Yes, it can probably be done from a technical point of view, but once the airline, or the originating agency of PNR or the GDS like Sabre, find out that the agency is passing on PNR's (whether online or by paper) they can loose their GDS contract or specific airline contract. If you are speaking of a particular agency sending to their own customer their PNR that was orginated by that agency, that can certainly be done now and is matter between that agency and their customer.