Charter Flight Creation
Charter flights are the flights that are not included in the main schedule. They are one-time flights executed for the certain client using the charter agreement between the client and an airline.
The airline creates the flight schedule and resources and provides the ticket sale for the specific agents. The agents perform seat booking based on the agreement with the client.
To perform seat booking and electronic ticket sale, the agent requires special access rights.
Charter Creation Procedure
- Flight creation.
- SSP agreement creation for the flight.
- Agent access implementation for seat booking in the SSP.
Flight Creation
The flight creation contains the generating of schedule and resources.
To create a schedule, open the Schedule → Flights section.
Click Create in the upper right screen corner. The flight parameter block will be presented.
Specify the flight number and route and press Enter.
The fields marked with green color are mandatory to specify.
Specify the С (the charter flight) value for the Serv type field.
After all mandatory fields are specified, click Preview. The schedule draft will be presented.
To save the schedule, click Save. To check the flight creation, open the schedule section (Schedule → Flights).
SSP Agreement Creation
To create SSP, open the Agreements → Special space agreement section.
Click Create to create SSP. The SSP parameter block will be presented.
Specify SSP name in the Special Space Name field (for example, 111).
After that, specify the following fields:
- flight number (Flight)
- flight period (Period)
- class of service (Cabin)
- SSP quota (Quota).
To set SSP for the certain booking class, specify the class in the Rbds field. If it is not specified, then SSP is set for the whole cabin.
Specify the Return level parameter only in case of planned seat refund from the SSP to free sale. The refund parameters are the following:
- % – the rate of unsold SSP seats that will be refunded to free sale.
- D – the day amount before the departure time to refund the seats.
- Н – the hour amount before the departure time to refund the seats (the relative time) or the time in hours (the absolute time).
- М – the minute amount before the departure time to refund the seats (the relative time) or the time in minutes (the absolute time).
- Absolute time – select the flag to set the absolute time for the calculation.
For example, if the parameters are specified as in the Figure below, then all unsold seats will be refunded to free sale at 1 day 14 hours and 30 minutes (38h30m) before the flight departure.
If the Absolute time flag is selected, then all unsold seats will be refunded to free sale at 1 day before the flight departure at 14 hours and 30 minutes (14:30).
After all parameters are specified, click Preview. The SSP draft will be presented.
If the draft is OK, then click Flights. The flight/date list for the SSP implementation will be presented. Clear the flags at the flights/dates to exclude them from the SSP agreement.
Click Save. The Operation results window with the SSP implementation results will be presented.
The check the creation of the SSP agreement, open the Inventory → Flights section. Specify the flight number and its execution date and click Search. On the presented flight inventory screen, click Space and select the created SSP.
The SSP inventory screen will be presented.
There are other options to create SSP:
1. By the mass operation (Inventory- Mass operations- SSP Create):
2. Using actions menu (the Actions → SSP operations-SSP create button on the inventory screen).
Agent Access for Seat Booking
To assign SSP access, open the Business rules → Settings → Book access configuration section.
Specify the flight number (for example, ХХ-7777) in the search panel and click Search.
To specify access rights, click Add rule. The access parameters block will be presented.
Specify the following parameters:
- Space name – SSP name
- Flights – flight number
- Origin – departure point
- Destination – arrival point
- Rbd – booking class (if it is not specified, the access rights are applied for the whole cabin).
There are the following levels for seat booking in the Open access parameters:
- All – all
- System – booking system
- Agency – agency
- Point – point of sale
- Combine – combined.
Specify the booking system, agency and point of sale in the Value field.
To save the data, click Save. The created access rule will be saved in the System and presented in the list on the screen.
The example below presented the granted access for the AGENCY ONE agency and the denied access for the AGENCY TWO agency:
The access rights block presented in the Figure below contains the following parameters:
- flight number is
100 - flight route is
DMD-LED - flight period is
16.10.2014 - 31.10.2014 - booking classes are
QWE - access rule period is
23.10.2014 - 31.10.2014 - seat booking access is denied for all entities (agencies, points of sale and booking systems).
