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                                                       Exhibit 27.1

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<LEGEND>
      This Schedule contains summary financial information extracted form the
      Annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and is
      qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial staements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                                             Galileo International, Inc.
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