SSP

Question 1

PIO

Answer 1

Pricing Integration & Orchestration

Question 2

Type of content that can be searched in SSP

Answer 2

Only Air
Hotel has its own shopping
Rail & land and sea are out

Question 3

What SSP products are not charged transactionally but with product/license fees

Answer 3

FareXpert
XML FDI
Instant Search cache

Question 4

SSP avg and max TPS and comparison

Answer 4

28k up to 33k
[knife mum]

~50% of Google search

Question 5

SSP share of Erding

Answer 5

60% pure SSP
80% including things for SSP like JS

Question 6

SSP: DRs of Jérôme Daniel

Answer 6

• Jean-Pascal: core SSP
• Fabien Blondet: products & services
• Agnès Penaud: tech

Question 7

Fare basis: what is it?

Answer 7

A name provided to the fare (as fare amounts could be the same but conditions different, etc.)

Question 8

Cryptic for itinerary pricer

Answer 8

Informative: FXX
Confirmed: FXP

Question 9

Cryptic for best pricer

Answer 9

Informative: FXA
Confirmed: FXB

Question 10

Pricing after shopping: which product does it

Answer 10

Itinerary pricer

Question 11

Difference justifying FP vs MP

Answer 11

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

Question 12

FP itinerary

Answer 12

Outbound and inbound must be in the same FF

Question 13

FP OWD

Answer 13

Certain combinations of FF are allowed

Question 14

FP OWC

Answer 14

All combinations of FF are allowed

Question 15

Pre-shopping products

Answer 15

Instant FP and Instant MP

Question 16

ATC versions

Answer 16

ATC itinerary pricer
ATC best pricer
ATC Shopper

Question 17

Itinerary pricer: role

Answer 17

Finds the best fare for an iti/RBD

Question 18

What SSP product is the fastest

Answer 18

Itinerary pricing as we have most the info in input
Instant: everything is cached but we still need to build recos

Question 19

What SSP product is the most used

Answer 19

MP by very far

Question 20

What SSP product brings most money unitarily

Answer 20

The 3 pricers (iti, best, ATC). We cannot charge shopping so much, on top of pricing

Question 21

Search in SSP

Answer 21

Pre-shopping

Question 22

AirShopper: role

Answer 22

Part of SSP FE:
- some business logic (on top of SSP BE)
- determine which back-end to call based on the request

Question 23

AirShopper: ex of business logic

Answer 23

• Input:
• Output: can filter to match the level of recos expected if BE returns more

Question 24

Specificities of WBS for SSP

Answer 24

By-passes SSP FE. But all other TCH (DIG and NDC) pass by SSP FE

Question 25

Synonym for SSP FE

Answer 25

"Booking Engine" (because the historical one is part of IBE)

Question 26

PIO vs SSP FE and BE

Answer 26

It's neither, it's in-between

Question 27

Version of shopping I didn't know and a related feature

Answer 27

Shopping Schedule: only returns avl flights but w/o fares Same for ATC Schedule

Question 28

What PIO doesn't do

Answer 28

Shopping: goes straight from SSP FE to SSP BE

Question 29

What is in Shopping landing zone

Answer 29

MP, FP, PFX, APE

Question 30

Flow for Shopping Schedule

Answer 30

UI -> SSP FE -> INV (no PIO, no SSP BE)

Question 31

Flow for Pricing

Answer 31

UI -> SSP FE -> PIO -> SSP BE and back (for informative and confirmed)

Question 32

Other module in SSP FE on top of Air Shopper

Answer 32

Currency converter

Question 33

Technical framework for SSP FE

Answer 33

JCP (Java Common Platform)

Question 34

Configuration for SSP FE

Answer 34

On e-retail: site parameters On DC: ACP (A Configuration Platform)

Question 35

Mission of PIO

Answer 35

Bridge btw Pricing engine and RES, TKT, etc.

Question 36

I in PIO: details

Answer 36

Integration: - get customer context - creates TST/TSM

Question 37

O in PIO: details

Answer 37

Orchestration: call other entities - RES, TKT, etc. - Pricing engine: SSP, LCC or 3rd party

Question 38

Flow where PIO

Answer 38

Pricing, re-pricing and catalogue

Question 39

PIO checks for air

Answer 39

- avl is still there - PNR/request is allowed

Question 40

Who provides the "book and price" service

Answer 40

PIO

Question 41

PIO checks for AAS

Answer 41

- svc still avl - FF info - is air ticketed?

Question 42

In ATC: who does the ticket checks

Answer 42

PIO

Question 43

Who executes ATC invol

Answer 43

PIO (and no call to pricing engine)

Question 44

Why UFE

Answer 44

Universal to all flows: prime, servicing, etc.

Question 45

Filterings of domain prior to reaching UFE

Answer 45

- JS - Fare expertise: filtering parts - APE Then UFE

Question 46

SSP FE with DC

Answer 46

New version that can now be deployed independently from DC (unlike the old one with IBE)

Question 47

Where is SSP FE developped

Answer 47

Red Train

Question 48

3 differences between Informative and Confirmed pricing

Answer 48

- TST/TSM - OBE fees only in confirmed - Informative can returns multiple fares for upsell

Question 49

OLAP

Answer 49

Online Analytics Platform

Question 50

NFR "consistency"

Answer 50

Every read has the latest written data or returns an error

Question 51

How long does SSP keep fares

Answer 51

2 years for back pricing

Question 52

Data acquisition

Answer 52

Getting fares

Question 53

Search Orchestrator (+3 examples)

Answer 53

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

Question 54

Expertise of Bhaskar

Answer 54

Fare filing (in particular for ANA, his focus)

Question 55

How do you define no-show penalty

Answer 55

Filing

Question 56

What are SSP data profiles

Answer 56

Setup like: - Low seat avl - WL permitted