And the shift away from building an airline to increasing investment in less visible businesses - say, computer reservations systems - is also less exciting, he said.

In other executive changes at American, Michael J. Durham, was named president of the Sabre group, the airline's computer reservations and distribution system.

Bing Travel (previously Live Search Farecast and Farecast.com) is an airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry.

Japan Airlines said it would upgrade its computer reservations and ticketing system to enable it to link up with American and European systems.

CONFIRM was a very ambitious IT project supposed to create a single computer reservations system/global distribution system used by airline, rental car, and hotel companies.

When a reservation is confirmed, the airline keeps a record of the booking in its computer reservations system.

Under the plan, carriers would face fines if they continued the deceptive practice of listing optimistic rather than actual arrival times in computer reservations systems and published flight schedules.

Introduction of a new computer reservation system "VICRES"

He also coveted Eastern's superior computer reservations system.

Our highly sophisticated computer reservations system, is fast and efficient.