Passenger name record

And it identifies who is doing this.

It identifies people in the embassies who are positioned there permanently and review PNRs, which are passenger name records for pretty much everyone coming in and going through.

And it's honestly sickening that those people, these architects of terror and the drivers of this policy, are rummaging through everyone's information for simply flying through a city.

And they expect that they should be completely anonymous along the way, except when the government decides to give them an award and pin a medal on their chest for kidnapping people.

Regardless of where a booking takes place, with some limited exceptions, the user interface is just a translation tool to input a string of commands into the GDS.

This sequence initiates the process of creating a passenger name record, or PNR, to which it will then input a phone number, the name of the person making the booking, then a precisely formatted description of the desired flight itinerary.

After reconfirming availability and fare price, the GDS will then submit the PNR and return with this, the time limit for actually paying for the booking.

At this point, the booking is confirmed.

That seat is reserved and will stay reserved unless that payment deadline passes without payment.

Not only did they make reservations a far less labor-intensive process, they made essentially every airline reservation system interoperable with each other.

These days it's fairly simple for airlines to sell tickets involving other airlines.

They're all using the same GDS already, so the way United's internal systems interpret and modify a PNR is the same way Lufthansa's would.

Right.

So it was a whole thing where they couldn't split the PNR.

I was getting concerned because we're the last people.

This flight's about to be late.

It's like, just go down.

Tell the purser.

We couldn't separate the PNR.

One of you is going to sit upstairs, blah, blah, blah.