PNR Converter — Decode a GDS Booking Into Readable Flights

Paste a raw airline PNR / GDS itinerary (Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo or Worldspan) and get a clean, human-readable breakdown of every flight segment. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Your decoded flight segments will appear here.

🔒 100% in-browser. Your booking text is never uploaded.

What is a PNR (and what is a GDS)?

The short version before the codes: a PNR is your booking record; a GDS is the system that stores it.

A PNR — Passenger Name Record — is the electronic file an airline or travel agency creates the moment a trip is booked. It ties together the passenger's name, contact details, every flight segment, the fare/booking class and the ticket status, all under a single 6-character record locator such as ABC123.

That record lives inside a GDS — Global Distribution System. Four systems handle the vast majority of the world's airline bookings: Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport Galileo and Worldspan. Each one displays a booking as a dense block of codes that a trained agent can read at a glance — but that looks like noise to everyone else. This tool turns that block back into plain flights.

How to read a PNR segment line

Every flight in a booking is one coded line. Here is what each part means.

1  LH 401 Y 15MAY 4 FRAJFK HK1 1015 1305
LH — airline (2-letter IATA carrier code, here Lufthansa)
401 — flight number
Y — booking / fare class (Y = economy)
15MAY — departure date (day + 3-letter month)
4 — day of week (4 = Thursday)
FRAJFK — origin and destination airports (IATA)
HK1 — status: HK = confirmed, 1 = seats
1015 / 1305 — departure and arrival times (24h, local)

The converter above reads exactly these fields and resolves the airport codes to city names and the carrier code to the airline's name, so you get "Frankfurt → New York on Lufthansa" instead of LH FRAJFK.

Amadeus vs Sabre — the two main formats

The decoder is tuned for these two. Galileo and Worldspan are best-effort.

Amadeus

Segment number, then carrier, flight, class, date, day-of-week, the airport pair, status and times — usually spaced apart.

1 LH 401 Y 15MAY 4 FRAJFK HK1 1015 1305

Sabre

Similar fields, but flight number and class are often joined (401Y) and the day-of-week is usually omitted.

1 LH401Y 15MAY FRAJFK HK1 1015 1305

Who uses a PNR converter?

Travellers checking a reservation an agent sent them — confirming the flights, dates and record locator are correct before a visa appointment or a trip. Travel agents and OTAs quickly sanity-checking a booking pulled from the GDS. Visa applicants reading back a dummy ticket or flight itinerary to make sure it shows a verifiable, correctly-routed onward journey.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a PNR?

A PNR (Passenger Name Record) is the booking record an airline or travel agency creates for a trip. It is stored in a Global Distribution System (GDS) such as Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo or Worldspan, and is identified by a 6-character "record locator" (for example ABC123). The PNR holds the passenger name, the flight segments (carrier, flight number, date, route and times), the booking class and the ticket status.

What does this PNR converter do?

It reads a raw GDS itinerary block — the dense, coded text an agent sees in Amadeus or Sabre — and rewrites it as clear, human-readable flight segments: which airline, which flight number, from where to where, on what date, and at what times. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing you paste is uploaded to a server.

Which GDS formats are supported?

The decoder is tuned for Amadeus and Sabre segment lines, which are the two most common formats. Galileo and Worldspan lines are attempted on a best-effort basis; when a line does not match a known pattern it is shown untouched and clearly marked "could not parse" rather than guessed.

Is my booking data uploaded anywhere?

No. Parsing happens locally in your browser with JavaScript. The pasted text is never sent to MyJet24 or any third party, and nothing is stored. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the converter still works.

What is the 6-character record locator?

The record locator (also called the PNR code or booking reference) is a 6-character code made of letters and digits — for example ABC123 or 4XH2P9. It is the key that retrieves the whole booking in the airline or GDS system. Airlines never use the letters I or O in a locator to avoid confusion with 1 and 0.

What do the booking class letters mean?

The single letter after the flight number (Y, J, W, F and so on) is the booking or fare class. Broadly: F is First, J is Business, W is Premium Economy and Y is full-fare Economy, with many other letters mapping to discounted economy fares. The exact meaning depends on each airline's fare rules.

Can I use this to check a dummy ticket or flight reservation?

Yes — pasting the itinerary from a flight reservation lets you read back exactly which flights, dates and record locator it contains before you submit it with a visa application. If you need a verifiable reservation in the first place, our free dummy ticket generator creates one with a real PNR.

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