Current~v, many people and companies are embracing the mobile air line
reservation system. Reservation systems had been implemented in many parts of the world
for decades, initially from manual to computerized reservation system. Mobile, airline, bus
ticketing and automated reservation systems are effectively increasing in the market. As a
result of the fierce competition in the airline sector, organizations within this sector are in
the process of developing systems that will improve their services to customers.
Consequently, an automated seat reservation system has continued to be an open area of
research.
The objective of this paper is to develop a mobile airline seat reservation system
that will assist the public in gaining an easier and faster way for seat reservation and
providing them with more options to book a ticketfor traveling on real time.
The system was developed using the Wireless Markup Language (WML) asfrontend,
MySQL 4.0 database management system as back-end and PHP (Hypertext
Preprocessor) as the server-side scripting language.
The developed system will assist the airline customers and operators in providing
cost-effective system that will make possible bookings and seat reservation on real-time
using a mobile phone, irrespective of location of a user