SSP Flashcards

1
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PIO

A

Pricing Integration & Orchestration

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2
Q

Type of content that can be searched in SSP

A

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

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3
Q

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

A

FareXpert
XML FDI
Instant Search cache

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4
Q

SSP avg and max TPS and comparison

A

28k up to 33k
[knife mum]

~50% of Google search

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5
Q

SSP share of Erding

A

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

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6
Q

SSP: DRs of Jérôme Daniel

A
  • Jean-Pascal: core SSP
  • Fabien Blondet: products & services
  • Agnès Penaud: tech
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7
Q

Fare basis: what is it?

A

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

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8
Q

Cryptic for itinerary pricer

A

Informative: FXX
Confirmed: FXP

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9
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Cryptic for best pricer

A

Informative: FXA
Confirmed: FXB

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10
Q

Pricing after shopping: which product does it

A

Itinerary pricer

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11
Q

Difference justifying FP vs MP

A

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

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12
Q

FP itinerary

A

Outbound and inbound must be in the same FF

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13
Q

FP OWD

A

Certain combinations of FF are allowed

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14
Q

FP OWC

A

All combinations of FF are allowed

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15
Q

Pre-shopping products

A

Instant FP and Instant MP

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16
Q

ATC versions

A

ATC itinerary pricer
ATC best pricer
ATC Shopper

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17
Q

Itinerary pricer: role

A

Finds the best fare for an iti/RBD

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18
Q

What SSP product is the fastest

A

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

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19
Q

What SSP product is the most used

A

MP by very far

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20
Q

What SSP product brings most money unitarily

A

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

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21
Q

Search in SSP

A

Pre-shopping

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22
Q

AirShopper: role

A

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

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23
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AirShopper: ex of business logic

A
  • Input:
  • Output: can filter to match the level of recos expected if BE returns more
24
Q

Specificities of WBS for SSP

A

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

25
Q

Synonym for SSP FE

A

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

26
Q

PIO vs SSP FE and BE

A

It’s neither, it’s in-between

27
Q

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

A

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

28
Q

What PIO doesn’t do

A

Shopping: goes straight from SSP FE to SSP BE

29
Q

What is in Shopping landing zone

A

MP, FP, PFX, APE

30
Q

Flow for Shopping Schedule

A

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

31
Q

Flow for Pricing

A

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

32
Q

Other module in SSP FE on top of Air Shopper

A

Currency converter

33
Q

Technical framework for SSP FE

A

JCP (Java Common Platform)

34
Q

Configuration for SSP FE

A

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

35
Q

Mission of PIO

A

Bridge btw Pricing engine and RES, TKT, etc.

36
Q

I in PIO: details

A

Integration:
- get customer context
- creates TST/TSM

37
Q

O in PIO: details

A

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

38
Q

Flow where PIO

A

Pricing, re-pricing and catalogue

39
Q

PIO checks for air

A
  • avl is still there
  • PNR/request is allowed
40
Q

Who provides the “book and price” service

A

PIO

41
Q

PIO checks for AAS

A
  • svc still avl
  • FF info
  • is air ticketed?
42
Q

In ATC: who does the ticket checks

A

PIO

43
Q

Who executes ATC invol

A

PIO (and no call to pricing engine)

44
Q

Why UFE

A

Universal to all flows: prime, servicing, etc.

45
Q

Filterings of domain prior to reaching UFE

A
  • JS
  • Fare expertise: filtering parts
  • APE
    Then UFE
46
Q

SSP FE with DC

A

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

47
Q

Where is SSP FE developped

A

Red Train

48
Q

3 differences between Informative and Confirmed pricing

A
  • TST/TSM
  • OBE fees only in confirmed
  • Informative can returns multiple fares for upsell
49
Q

OLAP

A

Online Analytics Platform

50
Q

NFR “consistency”

A

Every read has the latest written data or returns an error

51
Q

How long does SSP keep fares

A

2 years for back pricing

52
Q

Data acquisition

A

Getting fares

53
Q

Search Orchestrator (+3 examples)

A

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

54
Q

Expertise of Bhaskar

A

Fare filing (in particular for ANA, his focus)

55
Q

How do you define no-show penalty

A

Filing

56
Q

What are SSP data profiles

A

Setup like:
- Low seat avl
- WL permitted