Yup - Aeroplan bookings happen directly in RES III. Whether AE agents have 'native' or 'cryptic' access is a different matter. Some very likely do which is what would happen when they 'long sell' a segment directly. The AE website, or at least whatever backend components interact with RES III, and any internal GUI or overlay tools AE uses will likely have to change.

Amadeus does have established web services components and APIs though that airlines can use (vs. Air Canada's current situation of having to develop everything "themselves").

AC's website uses the Amadeus booking engine and has for a very, very long time. Additionally, you are correct - AC has used Amadeus as its ticketing platform for quite some time (i.e. when AC issues a ticket, the master ticket record exists in Amadeus' ticketing platform.) So in theory there is not really much to migrate.

Hopefully, they will also at some point start creating 'Shadow PNRs' in Amadeus for every PNR created in RES III, and even going backwards to older active PNRs. If there is a long enough lead time, there will be very little if any data to migrate at cutover.

One other thing that has been mentioned before but is an important point to re-emphasise is that Amadeus is designed as a 'community platform'. All airlines that use it as a reservation system essentially work in the same system, and if you have a PNR that involves multiple Amadeus-hosted airlines, all airlines work directly in the same PNR. Certain information may not be view-able or changeable by all airlines depending on who created the PNR etc, but there are no issues of out of sync data when there is not any data to sync. This is why the record locator is the same across Amadeus airlines. And if your travel agent also uses Amadeus as its GDS, the locator they gave you will also be the same as they will also work in the same PNR.

The reservation is booked in RES III, but the ticket platform is still Amadeus (btw their IATA code is 1A :) )

Other piece of header:
Seems to me the e-mail is sent by amadeus, from a server likely in Munich: MUCEAP264 (unknown [171.17.134.1])

Host does not resolve and route goes to Germany and then gets lost.

Woops! Thank you :)

But is the ticket platform really Amadeus? I know AC bought an Amadeus ticket changer to automate their ticket reprice-reissue as an add-on to resiii, but I didn't think the etkt issuance was also Amadeus. If it was AC wouldn't have needed to buy that special changer wouldn't they?

And isn't their platform also supported by Sabre (also why many travel agencies use AA in Canada)? I'm fairly certain the true AA GDS can issue its own tickets.

But yeah, talk about a tangent.

More on transition, possibly folks who understand NDC can explain in lay terms for us.

https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news...JzWlYydGd5QSJ9

Air Canada advances its product distribution capabilities with NDC exchange connection

ATPCO and SITA today announced that launch customer Air Canada processed its first NDC (New Distribution Capability) production transaction via NDC Exchange, a platform that simplifies the adoption of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) NDC standard.

Seems like is it some sort of communication interface.

But talk about BS...

Total turnoff as far as I am concerned.

I guess it'll mean different airlines and TAs will be able to not lie to you about what you get on a code share.

"Able not to lie?" ??? :D

Won't have an excuse anymore if they try to, I would say. But guess what, they'll still try...

Many feel IATA's NDC standard is primarily a vehicle for dynamic pricing (or if you prefer, discriminatory pricing) and other potentially customer-unfriendly advancements.

​​​I have no particular opinion on the matter but there is much debate on the topic, including some in the US Senate, if you care to Google it.

Can anyone with information provide an update as to what the current progress of this project is? It is my understanding that they wanted this project (or at least the reservations system part) to be done by March 2019 with PNRs migrated over etc.

Completion dates for the following?
- Reservation staff training on Amadeus Reservation
- Migration of reservations system to Amadeus along with PNR migration
- Migration of Aeroplan reservations to Amadeus
- Airport check-in staff training on Amadeus Customer Management
- Migration of departure control system to Amadeus (schedule by station?)
- Migration of flight loading / balancing to Amadeus

yes when is changeover we don't want to be flying AC that DAY :)

AC has not announced anything yet. There will be a public announcement as customers will be impacted (and bookings will get new locators). So unlikely to be March 2019.

March 2019 has come and gone... any ideas when Amadeus will go live at AC? Or has AC made an annoucement that I've missed?

Wait for the lights to go out.

Late 2019 is the target.