Package I

Challenge:
Airlines require a solution to easily enter, mantain and distribute their fares to their customers and to the GDS. A swift time to market is a definite must.

Solution:
"Airline Package I" is the perfect solution to enter, manage and distribute airfares. Everything has a standard format allowing the recipients who use other HitchHiker applications to simply and easily import error-free data. Furthermore, these tariffs can be processed with visualFares Ticketing Automation all the way through to automated ticket printing.

HitchHiker Products:
DataManagement & Distribution
» visualFares Flight Entry
» visualFares Flight Database Manager Module
» visualFares Flight Stadaf Export
» visualFares Flight RFF Export
» visualFares Flight HTML Export
» visualFares Flight e-mail Distribution Server

Web Services
» TeMyra.Agent (B2B) and/or
» TeMyra.Consumer (B2C)

Workflow:

Savings / Advantages:
The tariff management system visualFares Entry guarantees airlines fast loading, editing and distribution of tariffs while considerably reducing the manual workload.

visualFares Entry is widely used by numerous consolidators and wholesalers worldwide, thus simplifying and accelerating the airline's fare distribution process of fares to customers. This is done electronically, in three different high quality formats:

» HitchHiker’s VFX format, which can be retrieved by any customer using
   HitchHiker visualFares products
» HTML files which are compatible with MS Excel and Word
» STADAF which can be imported into other 3rd party applications

In addition, HitchHiker's e-mail Distribution Server (EMDS) spares airlines the time and trouble of distributing their fares manually to hundreds of different customers. The EMDS automatically generates individual e-mails and attaches the corresponding fare files.

Besides the optimised electronic fare distribution process, the recipients benefit from the easy import of airline fares directly into their systems. Distribution to the market is very fast and requires only a minimum manual workload resulting in an increased profit for all parties involved: airlines, consolidators and wholesalers.

Along with fare levels, rules and routing information, detailed ticketing instructions are also provided when using the HitchHiker System. Moreover, visualFares Ticket-Automation customers also benefit from the reduced number of ADMs (Agency Debit Memos).

With HitchHiker's TeMyra.net, a complete web page for airline tariffs for business-to-business as well as business-to-consumer applications can be created.

In summary, HitchHiker's Software System reduces the entire tariff management and distribution workload many times over, which in turn allows airlines to get their fares out onto the market in no time at all.