New Gen PSS Flashcards
NewGenPSS transition: steps
1- Foundations
2- Transformation
3- Simplification
NewGenPSS foundation step
How to get new revenues with the current architecture
so not much of Order
Interline hackathon: demo main highlights
Shopping creates an Offer that contains 2 products from 2 different airlines and can be seen in a UI
Hackathon scope (2)
- Define technological stack of OfmS
- 1st use case: interline à la NDC (shopping/pricing)
Main event broker selected for OfMS
NATS
OfMS benefits
1- Enhanced offers
2- Improved customer experience
3- Optimised distribution
4- Streamlined processes and synergies
OfMS benefits: 2 examples of “streamlined processes”
Centralised offer definition, etc.
Increase self-service capabilities
Needed for OfMS business continuity
API interoperability
OfMS transition: 2 steps
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
What modules does Ludwig keep even with External OfMS (3)
- OfMS APIs
- Offer framework for gateway
- Open Offer
2 modes of external content acquisition
- As part of Product catalogue
- Real time through NDC cascading
Open Offer APIs: categories
- CRUD
- Event streaming
Technical ways to control Offer definition
UI or Business Control API
Offer states
- Proposed = ready to be retailed
- Selected = requested to be confirmed
- Confirmed = ready to be contracted
HA: OfMS API for DCS
- Create Offer from PNR (bridge from legacy to OfMS, will disappear in channels fully Offer-based)
- ServiceList from Offer
- Book & price unchanged
Ludwig as box on top: acronym
NAC = Non-Altéa Carrier
Ludwig as box on top: high-level architecture
Front-Ends
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Ludwig box on top
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External PSS
Ludwig as box on top: benefit of using GDS flow
Few gaps and almost all airlines already distributed in Ludwig GDS today
Ludwig as box on top: main difference with GDS flow
Ticketing: Ludwig asks the external PSS to issue on the airline stock, not TA stock
What product can request an external PSS for ticket issuance and steps
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
Ludwig as box on top: what are the main gateways to the PSS
Ludwig Reservation and Web e-TKT/Web EMD
Ludwig as box on top: specificity of AA ticket issuance
Done by ARI Robotics so asynchronous: the customer doesn’t get his ticket right away
Ludwig as box on top: synch with ARI
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