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"Adopt and go." Use Sabre and save yourselves a whole bunch of headaches.
Our inept management at United, mostly from the former Continental, wanted to use a "best practice" approach instead of "adopt and go." Turns out that THEY decided that Continental's way was usually "best." So rather than following the lead of Delta, and overlaying the systems of the larger airline on the smaller one, they thought it was smart to re-train (minimally) the larger group of employees on a totally new system - Shares. Not to mention the slew of I.T. problems. As a result we had the disaster of summer 2012, and lost a lot of business. Everything from ticketing, to boarding, to weight and balance was affected.
I don't envy the position you are in with this merger right now. But in the long run I do envy you for your management. I think UAL will have a hard time competing down the road until we purge the upper office space in Willis Tower and get some new blood on the top.
Are they really in Willis Tower? What a waste of resources simply for bragging rights. Unless, of course, office space in Chicago is so plentiful that Willis Tower signed a give-away deal.
Want to make an intelligent systems comment? Advocate not using 30+ year old computer systems. Get a new system that's fast and up to date. Let's get a system that's designed as a GUI and not have a clunky overlay. New airline? Let's set the pace and get a system that actually meets OUR needs and not the needs as determined by a programmer. "I'd like to do X." "Well, the system can't do that. We can put in a workaround doing A and B that will give you a similar result." This should not be acceptable. We're well into the 21st century now, let's get out of the 70's.
ALL of the legacy GDS's are between 35 and 50 years old. SHARES got it's start at Eastern as System One which was the primary reason Lorenzo acquired EA.
As to Amadeus it is indeed a modern system and if AA/US decides to do something different alliance wise (staying in Star) Amadeus is Star's preferred platform.