Product - Fare filing Flashcards
Publishing career
The airline publishing the fare
“Flight” for SSP
= segment
Fare filing in SITA
Obsolete. Used to be mostly in Americas
Example of total independance of fares from flights
An airline can file a fare on a city pair it doesn’t fly to
OW/RT type of fares: which options
Only OW and RT, nothing else
Ex: no open-jaw, no circle. They will combine OW and RT
Dynamic Discounted Fares
Type of fares for massive promotions. Only fileable in FareXpert
The main different types of fares
- Public
- Private: usually fares limited to direct channels like for specific PTCs
- Negotiated: agreements with TAs
Cryptic for pricing display with syntax
FQD
FQDAAABBB/AXX
Cryptic option to see only public fares
/R, P
(Restiction->Public)
“Fare geography” for SSP
Set of consecutive flight legs
Exception to fare geography
AAA-AAA cannot be a fare geography
Pricing Unit
Combination of fare components that covers a part or all of the journey
Types of pricing units
OW, RT, Circle Trip, Open Jaw
Types of Open Jaw
Destination Open Jaw or Origin Open Jaw or Double Open Jaw
Application of fare directionality
In general, we take the direction of travel. Except on fare components that go back to the country of origin of a previous pricing unit, in which case, it must be reversed
