Patent ID: 7962354

Claim:
A method of booking an air travel itinerary on one of a plurality of different host ticketing environments, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of host adaptor modules, each host adaptor module being configured to interact with one of said host ticketing environments; providing a booking engine for determining an appropriate host ticketing environment for processing commands based on predefined criteria; performing a low fare search for air travel itineraries and displaying search results of air travel itineraries from the low fare search; determining that an air travel itinerary has been selected from the search results of air travel itineraries from the low fare search; receiving a command at said booking engine related to re-pricing said air travel itinerary upon determining the air travel itinerary selected from the search results of air travel itineraries; said booking engine determining a first appropriate host ticketing environment for processing the command related to re-pricing the selected air travel itinerary; said booking engine forwarding said command related to re-pricing the selected air travel itinerary to a first host adaptor module associated with said first host ticketing environment; said first host adaptor module issuing said command related to re-pricing the selected air travel itinerary to said first host ticketing environment; said first host adaptor module receiving a response to said command related to re-pricing the selected air travel itinerary from the first host ticketing environment; and said booking engine forwarding said command related to re-pricing the selected air travel itinerary to a second host adaptor module associated with a second host ticketing environment if said response does not comport with an expected response, if said response does comport with the expected response then information associated with the air travel itinerary selected is displayed.