Electronic Fares Services
Updates Airline Fares In Minutes
An airline starts or terminates service on a route. New taxes, fees and other third-party charges. Fluctuation in fuel prices. Revised rules and restrictions.
Airline fares and their add-ons are complex and always in flux. You cannot have stale fares and expect to stay ahead of the competition. To remain competitive and maximize your revenue, you must have access to a fare quote system that updates within minutes after new fares are published.
Easily Integrates Into Your Existing System
EDS' Electronic Fares Services is a comprehensive fare quote system set up as a service bureau. Accessed via Web services or an adaptor, it works with any system designed to handle airline space reservations, including:
- Airline reservation systems (carrier specific or multihosting systems)
- Global distribution systems (GDS)
- Travel portals
EDS Electronic Fares integrates into your environment with little or no format changes observable by sales agents. Your sales agents may not even notice the fare quote system your reservation tool utilizes has changed. Since they continue to request fares and fare quotes with the same entries they are used to, no major retraining effort is required.
If you wish to connect a booking engine directly to a fare quote solution, without going through a reservation system, Electronic Fares Services can also do that – it's fully Web service enabled and allows direct interface to any front end.
Optimize Revenue By Selling The Most Current Fares
Electronic Fares Services enables quick and accurate computing of the total price of a ticket including applicable taxes, fees and surcharges. Revenue is optimized because it publishes new fares – public, carrier-specific and private –within minutes of receiving:
- ATPCO fare rule and supplemental data
- SITA fare rule and supplemental data
- IATA tax and surcharge data
With the latest fare decreases and increases in your system, you can gain market share by selling the newest lower fares before the competition and prevent losses by stopping the sale of outdated, too-low fares.
Reduce Costs With a Lower Rate Per Transaction
Electronic Fares Services offers reasonable transaction rates because it is a leveraged solution that spreads costs over a larger client community.
Other cost advantages:
- Zero downtime for all programming/code changes, allowing users to continue doing business as usual
- Eliminates claims resulting from audits having applied outdated fares
- An automated ticket reissue/refund capability using EDS' database of 24 months of historical fare data
Though economical, Electronic Fares Services is a robust and proven fare-quote system refined using our years of experience – EDS developed three of the six service bureau-type solutions presently on the market.
Improve Reliability And Faring Competence
The reliability of your fare quote system is just as important as its accuracy and speed. Electronic Fares Services uses a cluster of servers set up for failover, which provides maximum reliability – plus the scalability needed to keep up with increasing transaction volume. EDS monitors the system constantly and backs it with a dedicated, solution-specific support desk.
Support is provided for:
- Problems with Electronic Fare Services
- Problems with fare filing
- Questions related to data processing or database maintenance
The support desk is available 18 hours a day, six days a week, with staff on call outside these hours. Should there ever be an urgent matter, the Support Desk can manually update a wide range of data –there is no need to wait for the next vendor transmission to back out a filing error.
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
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