Flights

Call Center Staff can quickly and easily view flight availability searching by route and date. Users can request up to 4 different routes in a single availability query and the system will return all available flights within a given time frame for each route. Inventory can then be booked directly from the availability display with a single click and the seats will be taken immediately from the system inventory levels. Features Include: Search for upto 4 routes in a single request Cities displayed dynamically from the database Dynamic Calenders User defined booking status - Confirmed, Overbook, Waitlist, Open Segment, Passive Segment Fare Quote before segment is booked Low Fare indicator Flight display shows - City Pair, Depart / Arrival Times, Flight Date, Flight Number, Duration, Aircraft Type, Number of Stops Inventory shows number of seats available in each booking class (RBD) The following status codes are supported - HK, RR, HX, LL, HL, MK, XX, SS, NN, QQ, MM, KK, UC, UN, NO, PN, PK Go back to Sales Distribution Channels

Passengers

Adding passengers to a booking is a rapid process - just select the number and type of passsengers travelling and the system will automatically display a graphical interface which adds all of the passengers to the booking in a single transaction. Features include:

• Add up to 99 individual passengers in a single transaction
• Add multiple passengers with the same family name in 1 transaction
• Add up to 99 Group passengers in 1 transaction
• 8 Passenger types (Adult, Child, Infant, Seated Infant, Youth, Senior, Student, Teacher)
• Stored age of children & Infants
• Edit passenger names with a single click

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Ancillary Products

Over the past few years airlines have realized the revenue potential of maximizing the sales of ancillary products with their flights. Providing the facility for your passengers to book these products online is the ideal way to increase your revenue while minimizing the costs of administration of these value added sales.

Our system allows you to set up an unlimited number of ancillary products in the core system and release them for sale through all interfaces including the call center. Features Include:

• Unlimited ancillary products
• Categorize products in groups
• Passenger relate products
• Segment relate products
• Insurance, Excess Baggage, Excursions, Car Hire & Hotels etc

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Contacts

Passenger contact details are added to the system using a rapid form interface that allows all contact details to be stored in a single transaction. These contacts include:

• Mobile Phone
• Home Phone
• Business Phone
• Travel Agent Phone
• Email Address
• Postal Adress

In addition to basic contact details airline staff can recall passenger profiles from the database which will display all the cotact details for a passenger that has created a profile and store them to the booking in a single click. You can also use the contact details from the booking to create a new profile so that when the passenger makes another booking all their details are on hand immediately. Frequent Flyer details can also be added to the booking from this screen so that members can receive airmiles from the booking.

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Airport Fax Codes

Airline staf can add SSR's to bookings either as part of the booking process of when they revisit a booking at a later date. All special service requests are stored in the booking in real time and visible on SSR lists for flights throughout the system. SSR lists can be sent via email or TTY message to the airport, and they are also included on the Passenger Name Lists (PNL) sent to handing agents for check-in by 3rd parties.

If you're using VRS to check-in at the airport the SSR's for all bookings on the flight are visible to your check-in staff and are also included on the Passenger Information List (PIL) for airline crew to take on board.

VRS is delivered with approx 50 standard IATA SSR's pre-programmed and you can add an unlimited amount to that to suite your market. Parameters that are used for controlling SSR's include:

• Passenger related
• Segment related
• Optional free flow text for additional information
• Sent to Queues
• Included in meal lists
• Restricted from exit seats
• Send via TTY message
• Show on eticket confirmation

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Fares

As soon as a flight segment has been added to the booking a fare quote can be retrieved from the system showing all available fares for that route (A fare quote can be displayed before a segment is added in the flight search display). Users can store fares into the booking in a number of ways:

• System Automated Fare Quote
• Quick Manual Fare Quote
• Detailed Manual Fare Quote
• Best Buy
• External Fare Quote

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Payments

Prior to tickets being issued within the system the airline agent will need to enter a payment record within the booking to equal the fare stored in the booking. The system can accept both multiple forms of payment allowing passengers to mix for example a Credit Card payment with Cash and an unlimited number of payments can be entered until the fare required is reached.

If a booking is divided the system will allocate payment between the 2 bookings to ensure that they are balanced. At any time the user can display a balance sheet that shows the breakdown and value of the fare quote and the payments that have been stored in the booking.

Forms of payment include:

• Automated Credit Card
• Manual Credit Card
• Cash
• Invoice
• Cheque
• Frequent Flyer Redemption

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Ticketing

We don't use a 3rd party Eticket database. VRS comes with a fully integrated, built-in Eticketing for all ticketing requirements from all distribution channels - Call Center, Internet Bookings, GDS and Interlines. Ticketing is fully IATA compliant and connected to all other major Eticketing databases such as Amadeus, Sabre, Worldspan, Galileo, Apollo, Mercator, SITA and Deltamatic. This provides your airline with the capability of distributing your tickets through all major distribution networks and collect funds through BSP & IDEC.

For booking being taken by the call center directly the tickets would be internal airline etickets. This is a non BSP ticket where settlement is collected directly usually through credit cards payment, cash or invoice.

The following Eticket Status' are supported:

• Open
• Revalidate
• Reissue
• Send Control
• Request Control
• Void
• Refund
• Suspended
• Details

 From the ticketing area you can carry out the following actions:

• Issues Tickets
• Revalidate Tickets
• Refund Unused Tickets
• Void Tickets
• Display Ticket Confirmation (HTML)
• Display Plain Text ticket file
• Email Confirmation to passengers
• View ticket history

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Remarks

Free flow text remarks can be made to a booking which allows airline staff to make notes for other reservations staff and airport staff to read. These are usually special remarks regarding the customer or hsitory of teh booking.

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Booking History Audit

All tranactions are logged within the system and the airline agent can view a full audit history for the booking which shows which user carried out each change to a booking and at what time.

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