Training

Basic Passenger Fares and Ticketing


Get ready for the new HIP check for special fares and when to use the most restrictive conditions!



How You Will Benefit

  • Verify if systems are correctly applying the ever changing rules of fare construction and baggage selection
  • Learn about the new global indicators
  • Know how to calculate normal unrestricted and restricted one-way fares
  • Understand when to apply specified routings versus the mileage system principle
  • Construct normal fares using industry (IATA) and carrier add-ons
  • Differentiate between the higher intermediate point check for normal and special fares
  • Know how to change fare break points in search of a lower fare quote 
  • Acquire the skills to select the best special fare for the passenger's itinerary and recognise related ticketing entries 
  • Appreciate local combination of special fares and when to apply the most restrictive conditions
  • Find out the new alternatives to YQ/YR

Designed for

  • New recruits, ticketing and reservation agents
  • Tariff and prorate analysts
  • Interline billing officers responsible for selling, issuing, controlling, accepting and auditing tickets

Course Content

  • Introduction to IATA Geography and the Passenger Air Tariff Set
  • Latest global indicators
  • Anatomy of a pricing unit
  • Fare selection criteria and currency rules
  • Mileage System versus specified routings
  • Add-on construction
  • Higher Intermediate Point and Backhaul checks
  • Impact of electronic ticketing on fare construction and PTAs
  • Quoting midweek/weekend or seasonal fares for one way, round and circle trips
  • Round trip, circle trip and round-the-world fare construction 
  • Collection of stopover fees, security fees and other surcharges
  • Children and infants' ticketing and fare construction
  • Special fare construction, analysis and related ticketing procedures for individual travel
  • Standard conditions 100 and 101
  • Open jaw trips using special fares
  • Local combination of different types of fares
  • Collection of penalty fees
  • Simulation of ticketing entries found in the data elements of ET displays and TAT boxes

Course availability

If a session is not listed below, this course is not scheduled for classroom delivery at this time.

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May 31 - June 11, 2010
Beijing, ChinaClass No : 18685
Onsite Training
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