SSP Flashcards
PIO
Pricing Integration & Orchestration
Type of content that can be searched in SSP
Only Air
Hotel has its own shopping
Rail & land and sea are out
What SSP products are not charged transactionally but with product/license fees
FareXpert
XML FDI
Instant Search cache
SSP avg and max TPS and comparison
28k up to 33k
[knife mum]
~50% of Google search
SSP share of Erding
60% pure SSP
80% including things for SSP like JS
SSP: DRs of Jérôme Daniel
- Jean-Pascal: core SSP
- Fabien Blondet: products & services
- Agnès Penaud: tech
Fare basis: what is it?
A name provided to the fare (as fare amounts could be the same but conditions different, etc.)
Cryptic for itinerary pricer
Informative: FXX
Confirmed: FXP
Cryptic for best pricer
Informative: FXA
Confirmed: FXB
Pricing after shopping: which product does it
Itinerary pricer
Difference justifying FP vs MP
a/l objective is:
MP: show the cheapest -> MP will never return 2 recos for the same flight
FP: upsell -> FP will have for the same flight, one reco per FF
FP itinerary
Outbound and inbound must be in the same FF
FP OWD
Certain combinations of FF are allowed
FP OWC
All combinations of FF are allowed
Pre-shopping products
Instant FP and Instant MP
ATC versions
ATC itinerary pricer
ATC best pricer
ATC Shopper
Itinerary pricer: role
Finds the best fare for an iti/RBD
What SSP product is the fastest
Itinerary pricing as we have most the info in input
Instant: everything is cached but we still need to build recos
What SSP product is the most used
MP by very far
What SSP product brings most money unitarily
The 3 pricers (iti, best, ATC). We cannot charge shopping so much, on top of pricing
Search in SSP
Pre-shopping
AirShopper: role
Part of SSP FE:
- some business logic (on top of SSP BE)
- determine which back-end to call based on the request
AirShopper: ex of business logic
- Input:
- Output: can filter to match the level of recos expected if BE returns more
Specificities of WBS for SSP
By-passes SSP FE. But all other TCH (DIG and NDC) pass by SSP FE
Synonym for SSP FE
“Booking Engine” (because the historical one is part of IBE)
PIO vs SSP FE and BE
It’s neither, it’s in-between
Version of shopping I didn’t know and a related feature
Shopping Schedule: only returns avl flights but w/o fares
Same for ATC Schedule
What PIO doesn’t do
Shopping: goes straight from SSP FE to SSP BE
What is in Shopping landing zone
MP, FP, PFX, APE
Flow for Shopping Schedule
UI -> SSP FE -> INV
(no PIO, no SSP BE)
Flow for Pricing
UI -> SSP FE -> PIO -> SSP BE and back
(for informative and confirmed)
Other module in SSP FE on top of Air Shopper
Currency converter
Technical framework for SSP FE
JCP (Java Common Platform)
Configuration for SSP FE
On e-retail: site parameters
On DC: ACP (A Configuration Platform)
Mission of PIO
Bridge btw Pricing engine and RES, TKT, etc.
I in PIO: details
Integration:
- get customer context
- creates TST/TSM
O in PIO: details
Orchestration: call other entities
- RES, TKT, etc.
- Pricing engine: SSP, LCC or 3rd party
Flow where PIO
Pricing, re-pricing and catalogue
PIO checks for air
- avl is still there
- PNR/request is allowed
Who provides the “book and price” service
PIO
PIO checks for AAS
- svc still avl
- FF info
- is air ticketed?
In ATC: who does the ticket checks
PIO
Who executes ATC invol
PIO (and no call to pricing engine)
Why UFE
Universal to all flows: prime, servicing, etc.
Filterings of domain prior to reaching UFE
- JS
- Fare expertise: filtering parts
- APE
Then UFE
SSP FE with DC
New version that can now be deployed independently from DC (unlike the old one with IBE)
Where is SSP FE developped
Red Train
3 differences between Informative and Confirmed pricing
- TST/TSM
- OBE fees only in confirmed
- Informative can returns multiple fares for upsell
OLAP
Online Analytics Platform
NFR “consistency”
Every read has the latest written data or returns an error
How long does SSP keep fares
2 years for back pricing
Data acquisition
Getting fares
Search Orchestrator (+3 examples)
Abstraction component that can mix difference features of search based on some business logic:
- MP and NDC
- MP and MP Instant
- Virtual interlining by combining multiple MP on different parts of the itinerary
Expertise of Bhaskar
Fare filing (in particular for ANA, his focus)
How do you define no-show penalty
Filing
What are SSP data profiles
Setup like:
- Low seat avl
- WL permitted
