Downloading Schedule from External Systems

You may download schedule from external systems (e.g. Schedule Management systems or Inventory systems of codeshare partners).

SSIM 4, SSIM 5 (SSM/ASM messages) format messages are formed, received and processed in the System.

System administrators load all incoming schedule messages as SSM/ASM messages, which are processed automatically or manually (based on airline's preferences). Automatic processing is set by default.

In the automatic mode, downloading and processing of messages (flight creation, modification of schedule parameters, flight cancellations) are made automatically. Notifications are sent to the queue for manual processing in the following cases:

• not enough data in the message for processing it
• message data conflicts System data on the moment when the message is received.

In case of manual processing, all received messages are sent to the 6th queue (SSM) with comment:Manual processing ON. User can process those messages manually.

For processing incoming SSM/ASM messages the following RES business rules should be set in Leonardo:

• Booking classes;
• Departure/arrival terminals;
• E-ticket.

Interaction Rules

Interaction rules allow to manage algorithms of processing schedule messages received from external systems, except for the messages from codeshare partners' inventory systems.

When downloading schedule from external system automatically, Leonardo system decides if all data in the message can be interpreted uniquely. If yes, then the message is processed automatically and changes are saved in the Schedule section. If there is not enough sata in the message for its automatic processing, then such message is sent to reject queue, where it needs to be processed manually by an administrator.

Layout is an order of seat distribution in the aircraft, which is based on logic link between an aircraft and its sale and physical configurations (amount of seats and how are the distributed in the cabin). The layout is formed when connecting a sale configuration to one of the physical configurations. The layout is necessary for sale with seat selection.

As there may be several ways to distribute seats in an aircraft, for each physical and sale configurations link several layouts may exist. If an incoming message contains several layouts, or if in Leonardo system there are several layouts set for the stated in the message AC configuration, there should be made additional settings which point which of layouts should be picked for automatic processing of the received message.

Single match between physical and sale configurations, and a layout is made by a Layout ID — a name of layout in the system. Each layout ID is unique within the system, and each of them is connected to only one pair of physical and sale configurations, even if seat amount and distribution scheme are totally same.

The settings are made in two steps:

1. setting where to look for layout ID in the text of the message
2. setting how to select only one of several layouts created for one AC configuration.