Oct-Nov24 Flashcards
PAL latest deal: scope
Digital, Portal, Mobile, LOY, NDC
Lionel Marino’s role
Services LPM Manager
Next big cutover for SV (scope and date)
ATC Cash & Miles Exchange
18Nov
Name of PROS DP product
Real-Time Dynamic Pricing Ultimate (RTDP)
RTDP Ultimate customers
LHG, AC
1A DP revenue uplift promise
+3% (announced with AY)
RTDP Ultimate evolution (2)
Going to contextual continuous pricing +
AAS DP
1S science products
Air Price IQ
Ancillary Price IQ
Upgrade IQ
(future) Bundle IQ
1S DP pilot
Air Serbia
1S DP functionality
Only continuous pricing most likely
SQ DP project: what’s left and date
Servicing on all channels
UAT SoF 31Jan25
AC DOE activation in PRD: date
Oct24 (then progressive deployment)
Altéa NDC for AC
Only for 1ATP
AAS DP data feeds per airlines
AMROF: QR
ADP: AY
Enriched Offers via DaaS: BA, EY, WN
AAS DP science per airlines
1A: QR, AY
LHG: 2 different 3rd parties
BA: 1A + in-house
EY: in-house
AAS DP data for science per airlines
1A internal feeds: QR, AY,
HOT22: EY, LHG
1A internal feeds + airline data: BA, WN
AAS DP: airlines with target price
LHG, SWA
AAS DP LHG cutover date
Feb25
AAS DP EY cutover date
Dec24 (price exp)
AAS DP WN cutover dateS (UB and Seats)
UB: Nov24 (price exp)
Seats: Apr25 (price exp)
AAS DP: date for bag projects
Jun25
AC BI feed status (Oct24)
- Prime booking: just activated in PRD
- Servicing: just activated in UAT
Split of responsibilities under C. Tosel
Bhargav: BusDev + bespoke + support Regional Mger for SC/CC opportunities
Patrice: SC/CC execution
Acronym of AI Seller UI
AIP: AI Agent Portal
End of UK: date
12Nov
[almost like the unknown soldier]
SAFe items (epic, feature, etc.) in Jira
JIRa vs SAFe
Initiative = Epic
Epic = Feature
User story = User story
2025 budget overall for OFR and increase
72M, +10M compared to 24 but just enough for current resources
[con]
Tax ppl in AOS
1 DEV maintenance, 1 DEV produit (Nevio)
1 PDA shared
Improvement of omnichannel for BA
Re-opening of classes
Why RAAV maintenance backlog is high
customers doubled in 4 years
IST Unit Cost
60K [BLR +50%]
Proportion of L airline portfolio not sold in PSS
15%
Knowledge of Itika and Arpana
Both new to their role
Itika: many years in 1A, INV (+ SKD in the past)
Arpana: joined 1A Sep23, INV
Both in SES handover
Sell handover trainees
All INV except the very recent newcomers
QR RAAV Development Fund
100ed/year for RAAV (+250ed global)
AI self-reacc in NDC: sellers
- 1ATP
- Verteil (AIP + VTL)
Workaround for Self-Re-acc in NDC
Since NDC cannot switch OIDs:
- Need to create a Self-Reacc robotic user and CPD rule for each NDC OID
- Cannot differentiate DCS and RES windows
Self-re-acc: differentiation of RES and DCS windows (+ others):
- why?
- how?
RES, DCS or redemption, etc.
- Different rules (e.g. in DCS allow to push to other a/l)
- Switch to a different OID
New big requirement from SV on ATC
ATC on Upgrades with miles
ATC on Upgrades with miles - Exchange impact
- If same RBD: no ASC nor much RES/TKT/PAY and industrialisation of JL so small
- If any RBD: a lot of work, in particular on miles in ASC
Requested dates for SV ATC on Upgrades with miles
UAT
- Apr25 for Exchange in same RBD
- Oct25 for Exchange any RBD + Refund
Usage of TPC settlement feed
- Biling reconciliation
- Mileage accrual
Deadline for end of LBox
31Mar25
Status of NDC in Azure
Fully migrated in UAT [Nov24]
SWA UB: dates
- Price Exp
- Model
- Price Exp: 12Nov to mid-Jan
- Model: end Jan
New type of model upload for SWA DP
ONNX
SWA AAS DP: SSR quotas
In scope, will be delivered end PI24.4 (so not for Price Exp)
AAS DP Target price: status of deliveries
Delivered including OVD
PI24.4: boundaries
SWA AAS DP: name of the Price Exp approach and why
Thomson Sampling method balances exploration & exploitation
Features of Self-re-acc
- Acknowledge
- Exchange
- Refund
Self-re-acc for SQ: features & touchpoints
- Acknowledge
- Exchange
(Refund didn’t exist yet and is covered by ATC Involuntary Refund)
Only on NDC
What is in DPBox
AMR Engine for AAM rules
DP Core Engine
(linking potentially to external models, NTP promo code, etc.)
What is in DOE
Parts of UFE + DP Box
LHG & AC Continuous Pricing characteristics
Content: % discounts
Acquisition: via Shop avl
Execution difference between Contextual and Continuous Pricing for 1A products
Contextual: Target Price
Continuous: % discount/mark-up
Acquisition of PROS instructions for AC ContPricing
Still via Shopping availabilities
NTP promo code process
Call to NTP to get a corpo code and then std pricing with corpo fares
BA Air DP characteristics
Can combine:
- L Continuous
- L Contextual
- BA science provides Target Prices offline and then DOE executes
DP Core Engine will decide
L Continuous Pricing
Simple interpolation requiring less data based on RM data
Air DP rules
- Eligibility rules
- Boundary rules
- FF Price Gap rules
AC ContPricing and NTP
Today, ContPricing is applied after NTP -> change the order
Value of DOE vs bespoke exec
The standard DP rules can be applied
LHG ContPricing Execution
UFE takes the discount % directly from the avl answer w/o DP Box
Main benefit of the transfo for AY
Go faster and experiment
Other name of M&C Converter
Award Converter
M&C Converter and LOY
Integrated to get the conversion rules
Size of SV SC in 2024 and 2025
8MY -> 16MY
[a Taj of plates]
SV SC and DP
Nothing of DP in SC, even integration of external science (except small provision for INV/RAAV)
Scope of DevSecOps (5)
“Garder la lumière allumée” :
- Deployment/change management
- Stability & Business Continuity
- Security & compliance (from technical stack not applicative code)
- Capacity management, FinOps
- Test systems
Star Alliance Competency Centre: scope
Seat in interline
Star Alliance Competency Centre: CSE
Maria Idrissi (SSP)
A big temporary cost of Cloud migration
Double run
History of DevSecOps
The new DevOps
Name of 1N’s modern retailing product
Stratos
Acquisition around biometrics
Vision-Box
ODBooking feed
Daily feed of O&D bkgs for the airline (based on ePNR)
End of VN NRM project
Ph2 CUT + 6 mths
How do we charge SV SC
Real spent except for CSE (but including SME)
SQ NGL PoC scope
Agreed: Prime bkg flow in DC + seats
New under discussion:
- servicing (new or PSS)
- NDC
- Order Feed
New L portal for a/l customers
MyA Services
MyA Services replaces
ASH and ACSP
Solution to simplify ID verification
A Travel Ready
Principle of A Travel Ready
Enter your documents at check-in, all checks
And then never show them again, no manual checks
2 sub-parts of Implem
Customer Transformation Management: delivery, pgm
Customer Operation Mgt:
CSM Ops (as closer to customer care, delivery, operations than commercial) + SAMs
Discussions w/ Google (4)
- Cloud (esp Shopping)
- Metaconnect search
- QPX in Nevio
- L’s airlines in Google Flight Search
Mathias Fenouil’s new role
IMP for Americas (based in DAL)
DR vs High Avl
High Avl: quick move in case of small issues
DR: move the entire 1A elsewhere in case of catastrophy (massive thing w/o any plan to de-move)
Main cloud sites
Amsterdam (PRD)
Dublin (TST+DR)
Roles on Curiosity for Offer
- MAK: chief PO
- Nicolas T: scrum of scrum master
SQ and TR aircraft numbers
150 and 50
“Taxes” on OOM for AOS
*2 for OFR (Corse)
* 2.3 for TSR (Creuse)
including Indirect Costs
Problems with multi-FF in RMS
- Often too aggressive (upper FF closed and lower open)
- Results in inversions
CI problem with NRM
Bad forecast because:
- Multi-FF but in practice very little product diff, doesn’t steer the market + too aggressive
- Calibration done during covid
How to re-calib CI
In PRD protected by RAAV (already used a lot by CI)
AOS 2025 pax & budget
112 pax, 98 FTEs
8M HT
Almost 10 TTC
How is bespoke maintenance fee charged
Upfront for the 5 years
Progress with future AGM partner
Nothing except joint answer to B6 RFP
Engineering BOs for POP’s
Paul & Hugues for both
Engineering BOs for RMS + TEOO
JMS + Fiig
Melinda as BO
ADX & ACE
PM BO for TEOO
Y-M & Jean-François
Matthieu as BO
RMS, POP 1 & 2, AGM team
AC ContPricing impact on Perf
CP on undercutting prevention (min price) has increased shopping response time by 50% (pilot was 30%)
Benefit of going to DOE specifically for AC
Co-funding from product
Blocker for AC to deploy ContPricing in Int’l
Undercutting prevention
How do we get BA target prices
Via the Big Data Platform
BA DP: calculation left to L to do on BA target prices
Target price per SI range and then interlopated
DP organic feed comes from
Master Pricer
How we optimise DP online response time
Pre-compute the utility of the competition
BA target prices: at which level
bound (and then summed up to align to our exec)
Number of SQ direct NDC partners
150+
[same as # airplanes]
Services portfolio
- Customisation services: bespoke
- Expert services: consulting, learning, support, adoption
- Managed services: hosting, software operations, business function operation (help desk, cybersecurity, digital campaigns, etc.)
- Competency Centers
People in SV SC (3)
Head: Oussama
Head of Engineering: Matthieu Debordes
Solution Consultant: Ghassen Lahmadi
Size of ATC on EMD Ugrade in miles
4.5MY for Offer only
Promo code in APRA
Planned for SV in 25.4 (no effort in Offer)
SSP/OFR split for AAM dev
70 OFR/30 SSP
Galaxy
Interline project between WN and FI
Yanis
SV VP RM (pro 1S)
EY SC size for Offer
From 6 to 10.5 excluding NDC
[sticks to chase hens]
How could we staff for Clarks
Take the current staff of the 3rd party