Is there a way to "secure" a GDS reservation?
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I have looked into this in the past and it's very disappointing how insecure this functionality is in general. The only specific additional security I could find was the Amadeus PNR Security Element which states this:
PNR Security
Amadeus individual pnr security allows you to set up special security rules so that a pnr can be accessed by one or several other offices.
The PNR security functions may allow access to a PNR even when there are no other special agreements in place and can override agreements that are contained in the current security tables. PNR security allows you to share PNR viewing and/or updating capabilities, without changing PNR accordingly.
Creating a pnr security element
The individual pnr security element is an un-numbered and can only be created by the responsible office.
R = For read only access: it is possible to view the pnr, but no updates are allowed. In this case the agent is given an error message at the time any pnr update entry is attempted.
B = For both read and write access: full pnr update is allowed, except for change of ownership.
N = For no access: the office id specified cannot retrieve this PNR via extended security agreements. (This overrides EOS)
Office IDs can include wildcards.
To enable this, it sounds like you'd have to book via a trusted travel agent who could set these specific GDS parameters for your PNR.
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A secret key of 6 alphanumerics is, in itself, reasonably secure. There are 2,176,782,336 possible combinations, making it (in combination with a single username) effectively unguessable.
There are a lot of infrastructure problems -- you have give the key to agents and CSRs, it is delivered by email, etc. -- but any secret of any length has that problem.
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