Transcript Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct

Amadeus
Electronic Ticketing Direct –
BD, TK, SU, KC in CIS
© 2006 Amadeus IT Group SA
Tatyana Luchshikova
BSM
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E-ticketing Direct benefits
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Short Solution Description
Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct product allows authorized Travel Agents
to issue etickets on the validating carrier e-ticket stock.
Moreover Travel Agents have access to all follow-up transactions on its own etickets.
When using the “Direct” option, the tickets
issued/voided/revalidated/reissued/refunded will be available for the Travel
Agent in specific Amadeus Sales Reports instead of the traditional Amadeus
market ones and this information will be transmitted directly to the airline’s
revenue accounting system.
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Benefits
Be 100% Electronic Ticketing worldwide even in countries where no BSP exists,
Faster exchange of information.
All benefits of the Electronic issuance solution
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Direct sales relationship between the airline and the travel agent;
E-ticketing Direct
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e-Ticket Issuance
The agents will be able to select the ticketing carrier at time of issuance by
simply adding the modifier ‘/T-XX’ where XX is the carrier code.
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Accounting Coupons
Accounting coupons will be printed on a broadcast printer. The following
coupons will be available with a standard layout:
• Itinerary receipt
• Audit coupon
• Agent coupon
• Credit Card Charge form
The printing or not of these coupons can be defined by the airline at
implementation time.
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Forms of payment
In order to issue these e-tickets, the agents will be restricted to the forms of
payment defined by the airline.
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• Passenger coupon
E-ticket Quota Control
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e-Ticket Quota Control
Thanks to e-Ticket Quota Control, an airline can manage the number
of e-ticket issued in NON BSP markets where they deploy
Amadeus e-Ticketing Direct.
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The quotas are specific per airline and:
• set per IATA T/A;
• defined per sales period (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly);
• only related to the e-ticket logical stock.
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The airline manages the ticket quotas itself directly in Amadeus
system.
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• automatically renewed at the end of the sales period;
Amadeus E Ticketing Direct
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Customer Segment
All Amadeus IATA certified Travel Agencies working with Airlines supporting
Electronic Ticketing functionalities in markets with or without IATA Billing
and Settlement Plan (BSP).
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Value Statement
Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct enables authorized Travel Agents to
issue Electronic Tickets on the validating carrier e-ticket stock and report
these transactions directly to the airline revenue accounting system,
without reporting them first to the BSP.
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Prove it to Me
Therefore Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct represents the only one way
for airlines and Travel Agents to issue Electronic Tickets in those
countries.
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Today there are more than 30 countries without BSP and without any
concrete plans from IATA to deploy a BSP.
GDS Distribution
Competition
Am adeus vs Com petition
by Airlines
Total nb. Of
Airlines ET ready
180
160
140
120
Sabre
Galileo
100
Worldspan
80
Abacus
Amadeus
60
20
0
Sabre
6
Galileo
Worldspan
Abacus
Amadeus
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GDS Distribution
Competition
Total nb. Of
countries
Am adeus vs Com petition
By countries
160
140
120
Sabre
100
Galileo
80
Worldspan
Abacus
60
Amadeus
20
0
Sabre
7
Galileo
Worldspan
Abacus
Amadeus
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Market:
AZ
GE
KG
UZ
TM
TJ
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Airline:
SU, BD, KL
TK, SU, BD, KL
SU, KC, BD, KL
SU, TK
TK
TK
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E – Ticketing Direct deployment in
Central Asia and Caucasus