The Pay–Account Standards Board manages the development of standards concerning any interaction between airlines and any other parties for the purpose of managing financial processes supporting the delivery of passenger services to the extent these are developed under the Passenger Services Conference.

This includes but is not limited to payment, settlement data exchange standards, and other related financial data exchange standards.

Groups under the Pay-Account Board:

  • BSP Data Interchange Specifications Group (BDISG)
  • Order Payments Group (OPG)
  • Order Accounting Group (OAG)
  • Settlement with Orders Group (SOG)
  • IATA Tax Governance Group (ITGG)

 

The BSP Data Interchange Specifications Group:

  • Deals with matters concerning the development and maintaining data interchange specifications for the exchange of passenger ticketing and related data between Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) business partners.
  • Reviews and endorses proposals to create or amend standards to develop and document suitable technical solutions for the provision of BSP related data, for publication in the BSP Data Interchange Specifications Handbook (DISH) and ensure that those technical solutions align with existing standards.
  • Develops and documents suitable technical solutions for the provision of BSP related data, for publication in the DISH.
  • Proposes realistic implementation schedules for changes to the DISH standards, for review by PASB.
  • Where practical, BDISG will take into account business requirements of BSP business partners.
  • Reviews and endorses proposals to amend PSC Resolution 750 Attachment A - BSP Data Interchange Specifications Handbook.
  • Liaises with other process owning groups under the PSC, and advisory groups under Industry Committees as required.
  • Maintains a work plan and reports regularly to PASB.
  • Develops and endorses other standards as directed by the PASB.

BSP Data Interchange Specifications Handbook:

> Lastest Dish updates.

Participate:

To view and/or participate in the activities under the BSP Data Interchange Group, please access the SSW site.

 

Membership of the Pay-Account Standards Board (PASB)

The following representatives have been elected to serve on the Pay-Account Standards Board for a two year period:

AIrline NAME TITLE
Air China He Jing Senior Manager, Interline Settlement
Air France Jerome Boyer   (Vice-Chair) VP, Revenue Accounting
American Airlines Mary Beth Macdonald Managing Director of Revenue Accounting
British Airways Györgyi Szantner Head of Finance Services
Delta Air Lines Mark Manhan Director - Revenue Accounting
​Emirates ​Rukhsana Pawane Senior Manager, EK Revenue Services
​Etihad Airways Maryam Bin Musabbah Head of Credit Control Department - Treasury, Tax & Finance
KLM Rob Kies Manager, Business Support
​Korean Air Kyoosuk Yoon Assistant Manager, Revenue Accounting and Admin Team
​Lufthansa Global Business Services ​Nadine Goebbels ​Head of Settlement of Payment Methods
​Qantas Airways Limited ​Konda Reddy ​Manager, Finance
SAS Signe Messeter Business Support Manager, Revenue Information & Integrity
​Singapore Airlines ​Boon Siong Ong ​Senior Manager, Passenger Sales Accounting
​Swiss International Air Lines  Myriam Burget  (Chair) ​Head of Revenue Accounting
​Turkish Airlines Kadir Coskum ​Vice President, Revenue Accounting
​United Airlines ​Susan Wade ​Managing Director, Passenger Revenue Accounting
​IATA Secretary ​Altug Meydanli ​Senior Manager Airline Distribution Standards (Pay-Accounts)

The Order Payment Group:

  • Deals with matters concerning passenger payment, and associated financial processes, to the extent these are under the authority of the Passenger Services Conference.
  • Reviews and endorses proposals to create or amend standards governing these processes. Ensures that proposals align with existing standards.
  • Creates standards with the emerging forms of payments, in collaboration with the Payment Methods Working Group of the Financial Committee.
  • While reviewing and endorsing proposals, liaises with other process owning groups under the Financial Committee.
  • Maintains a work plan and reports regularly to PASB.
  • Develops and endorses other standards as directed by the PASB.

Participate:

To view and/or participate in the activities under the Order Payment Group, please access the SSW site.

 

​The Order Accounting Group:

  • Review and endorse proposals to create or amend standards governing these processes. Ensure that proposals align with existing standards.
  • While reviewing and endorsing proposals, liaise with other Governance Groups as required.
  • Maintain a work plan and report regularly to PASB

Participate:

To view and/or particiate in the activities under the Order Accounting Group, please access the SSW site.

 

​The Settlement with Orders Group

  • Deals with all aspects of financial settlement between two parties – payer and payee – and within the scope of IATA resolutions.
  • Gather information about and review exiting business processes related to settlement and financial accounting practices.
  • Review and endorse proposals to create new Order based settlement standards.
  • Create Order based settlement standards that will be agnostic in nature, with regards to the parties settling and the payment method.
  • While reviewing and endorsing proposals, liaise with other process owning groups to pursue changes to existing standards they manage that will have effect on the settlement process.
  • Review and endorse proposals to amend all Resolutions related with Order based settlement, payment and accounting.

IATA Tax Governance Group 

  • Coordinate TFC issues within different IATA domains including TTBS/RATD, reservations, pricing, ticketing, sales reporting, interline billing. Ensure open communication with all related IATA Industry Groups, such as Industry Taxation Working Group (ITWG), Interline Billing and Settlement Operations Working Group (IBS OPS WG).
  • Responsible for identifying differences between distribution and revenue accounting and proposing solutions to the related IATA WGs.
  • Supporting the IATA rejection reduction initiative on TFCs, identifying the reasons for TFC rejections and recommending concrete solutions to IBS OPS WG and contributing to applicable rejection reduction and efficiency initiatives.
  • Assessing and addressing complex taxes where tax application or tax remittance is not possible within existing processes and standards and developing an industry solution/work around.
  • Advising the PASB on matters related with the IATA TTBS and advising ATPCO on automated, 'parameterized' TFCs.
  • Propose changes to industry standards to facilitate for collection and reporting of TFCs within the enhanced distribution processes.
  • Maintain an annual work plan and report regularly to Pay-Account Standards Board and to ATPCO Advisory Council (AAC).