Airlines Control Program, or ACP, was the operating system developed by IBM in 1969 for processing airline reservations and related data. In contrast to previous airline transaction processing systems, the most notable aspect of ACP is that it was designed to run on most models of the IBMSystem/360 mainframe computer family. This departed from the earlier model in which each airline would have a different, machine-specific transaction system.
In February 1979, ACP became known as ACP/TPF and then just TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) as the transaction operating system became more widely implemented by businesses other than the major airlines.
External links
Official IBM TPF website (http://www_306.ibm.com/software/htp/tpf/)
The Alternative TPF Homepage (http://www.blackbeard.com/tpf/tpfhist.htm)
The total budget for the program increased from $1 million to $481 million in the first year and may reach $1 billion by the end of 2003, while the number of officers has grown from 32 in 2001 to nearly 4,000 today.
Supporters of the program assert that the host of recent complaints and concerns are merely a result of normal "growing pains" in a scheme that has seen its staff and budget grow by a factor of 100 in the space of 16 months.
A year ago, American Airlines employees at Palm Springs allegedly notified marshals that the airline was "growing tired of air marshals taking high-revenue seats" and refused to reposition them from the two coach seats that were incorrectly booked through the Federal Aviation Administration near the rear of the plane.
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