New Gen PSS Flashcards

1
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NewGenPSS transition: steps

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1- Foundations
2- Transformation
3- Simplification

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NewGenPSS foundation step

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How to get new revenues with the current architecture
so not much of Order

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Interline hackathon: demo main highlights

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Shopping creates an Offer that contains 2 products from 2 different airlines and can be seen in a UI

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Hackathon scope (2)

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  • Define technological stack of OfmS
  • 1st use case: interline à la NDC (shopping/pricing)
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5
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Main event broker selected for OfMS

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NATS

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6
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OfMS benefits

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1- Enhanced offers
2- Improved customer experience
3- Optimised distribution
4- Streamlined processes and synergies

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7
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OfMS benefits: 2 examples of “streamlined processes”

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Centralised offer definition, etc.
Increase self-service capabilities

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8
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Needed for OfMS business continuity

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API interoperability

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9
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OfMS transition: 2 steps

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1- Relies fully on PSS but stores Open Offers

2- Mix of PSS granular verbs or OfMS APIs. If use OfMS, benefit from Orchestration that can go to PSS or new content or external content

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10
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What modules does Ludwig keep even with External OfMS (3)

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  • OfMS APIs
  • Offer framework for gateway
  • Open Offer
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11
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2 modes of external content acquisition

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  • As part of Product catalogue
  • Real time through NDC cascading
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12
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Open Offer APIs: categories

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  • CRUD
  • Event streaming
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13
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Technical ways to control Offer definition

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UI or Business Control API

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14
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Offer states

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  • Proposed = ready to be retailed
  • Selected = requested to be confirmed
  • Confirmed = ready to be contracted
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15
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HA: OfMS API for DCS

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  • Create Offer from PNR (bridge from legacy to OfMS, will disappear in channels fully Offer-based)
  • ServiceList from Offer
  • Book & price unchanged
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16
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Ludwig as box on top: acronym

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NAC = Non-Altéa Carrier

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17
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Ludwig as box on top: high-level architecture

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Front-Ends
|
Ludwig box on top
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External PSS

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18
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Ludwig as box on top: benefit of using GDS flow

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Few gaps and almost all airlines already distributed in Ludwig GDS today

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19
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Ludwig as box on top: main difference with GDS flow

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Ticketing: Ludwig asks the external PSS to issue on the airline stock, not TA stock

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20
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What product can request an external PSS for ticket issuance and steps

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Web eTKT and Web EMD
1- prepare everything on behalf of the a/l
2- get the ticket number and update PNR in external PSS with it

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Ludwig as box on top: what are the main gateways to the PSS

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Ludwig Reservation and Web e-TKT/Web EMD

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22
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Ludwig as box on top: specificity of AA ticket issuance

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Done by ARI Robotics so asynchronous: the customer doesn’t get his ticket right away

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Ludwig as box on top: synch with ARI

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ARI Robotics requests issuance via WBS but will be replaced by DIH as ARI is being decommissioned
Note that PNR synch is still with RES

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24
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Ludwig as box on top: who should do the servicing

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The box as only it has access to price modifications, PSS has no idea (or has to be manual)

25
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Ludwig as box on top: gaps for Offer

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Everything is off the shelf except:
- Service inventory (9MY)
- Dashboards (based on HOT) (2MY)
- BIF for INV criteria (0.5MY)
- Number of seats left (0.5MY)

26
Q

The 2 key solutions for business continuity seen from Order

A

Order bi-modal
Offer integration layer (making the link btw PSS Offer and OMS)

27
Q

Transition to NewGenPSS viewed from Digital

A

DC hides the transition for .com and gradual enhancements will not be disruptive

28
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Transition to NewGenPSS viewed from Delivery

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Order bimodal hides the changes to Delivery.
New capabilities can be rolled out later like sales at airport w/ OfMS

29
Q

Benefits of NewGenPSS for financial flows

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Real time so
- faster settlement
- more visibility

30
Q

Hackathon: airlines

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LH and EW

31
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Difference between retailer/supplier model and legacy

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In legacy model, the supplier is not contacted

32
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Hackathon: high-level architecture

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  • Digital sends shopping request (DC)
  • OfMS orchestration
    • NATS orchestrate different micro-services including “Connectors” and services with business logic
  • Calls to Ludwig FP and 1N shopping
  • Store in Open Offer
33
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Hackathon: business logic

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  • Determine what a/l to contact on what part of the iti
  • Reconcile the different bits of iti (MCT, 200 cheapest…)
34
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Hackathon and cloud

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Cloud-native in Azure

35
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Hackathon : connectivity to Flex and 1N: APIs

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  • Flex: EDI
  • 1N: NDC AirShopping/OfferPrice
36
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Hackathon: where are offers stored

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Open Offer of the retailer

37
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Hackathon: leaders & groups involved

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PO: Corinne
SM: Federico

OFR+SSP+TPE

38
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Interline MVP: impact on INV

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Inventory guarantee to simplify Digital pre-book orchestration

39
Q

Scrum team on OfMS APIs and scope

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Magnum:
- OfMS APIs
- Deeplink (EY, LH)

40
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Scrum team for Interline MVP & scope

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NUTS:
- Supplier/provider
- Interline MVP
- Polaris

41
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Scrum for Open Offer

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Groot

42
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Types of OfMS APIs

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  • Sales channel API
  • Core platform API
43
Q

Interline: how is it handled today

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One pricing engine on behalf of several a/l (either airline pricing or GDS)
Based on distributed schedules and filing

44
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Interline: today - On SQ fare+LH fare, can SQ apply DP ?

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  • Needs LH agreement that still combinable
  • Financial flow to be handled
  • LH & SQ cannot control the iti price with conflicting instructions
45
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Interline: retailer/supplier main benefit

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Filing no longer needs to be aligned

46
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Interline: retailer/supplier: name of what the retailer gives to the supplier

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The settlement value

47
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Interline: retailer/supplier: control of the supplier?

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Can require boundaries on retailing price (but doesn’t know this price when building its suboffer)

48
Q

Interline: retailer/supplier: what could be a first step?

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Pending accounting transfo: settlement done on fare amounts instead of settlement values

49
Q

Product cluster + ex

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Set of products amongst which customers can perform their choice
- a subset of 4* hotels

50
Q

What APIs are we developing in 2022

A
  • HA
  • EY+LH for deeplink in MetaSearch
  • AF “Casa”
  • AA
51
Q

NAC: how is the catalogue built by the box on top

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From ATPCo + RES layer gets info from PSS

52
Q

Other potential benefit of OrMS for interline

A

Seamless management of invol & vol changes between partners?

53
Q

NewGenPSS call centre solution and techno

A

Service Centre, based on RefX

54
Q

Ludwig box on top: how do we find the ancillaries

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Defined manually in AAM UI + ATPCo

55
Q

Evolution of downstream applications in time to NewGenPSS

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First settlement (after OOM)
Then delivery

56
Q

Expected length of transformation [2023]

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5 years to have the first fu use cases on NewGenPSS all the way to delivery (for the early adopters) so from 2027

57
Q

When will bundling be available in the transformation

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When Order becomes master

58
Q

Customer segmentation for NewGenPSS and why

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Strategic Altéa/Large Altéa/Other Altéa/Non-Altéa

Because NewGenPSS business case unblocks new funding depending on what we sign

59
Q

Priority leads for NewGenPSS for Rémy

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OneWorld (as BA, AY, AA and QR)
AI (rich and Tata group: hotels, TCS, etc.)