Air Rule Types
Content Optimizer allows high-volume customers to create rules that affect the shopping query results that display to their agents. The following table lists the types of rules that can be created.
Notes:
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Each rule also includes an effective- and a discontinue-date, which specifies the record effectiveness. The discontinue-date cannot be greater than 12/31/2059. These dates are not related to travel dates.
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All rules are listed below. The table below indicates whether a rule affects Availability (A), Shop/Search (SS), Fare Display (FD), Pricing (P), or is included with NDC.
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CCL, or Content Curation Layer, ensures no duplicate fares return when fares are the same between traditional and NDC carriers via Smartpoint Cloud / JSON API v11, when the 'both' radio button is selected. There is no special provisioning required for CCL when shopping. Not every rule applies the CCL filter when 'both' is selected. Refer to the following table to see which rules have CCL applied when 'both' is selected.
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Each Content Optimizer rule is followed by the SCC rule name to remove any confusion for customers transitioning to Content Optimizer from Search Control Console.
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Depending on which provider processing system the rule accesses to implement, the time it takes to implement the rule may vary. The Time to Process column indicates the approximate time, in minutes, in which you should see your rule take effect.
| Rule | Rule Affects | Rule Type ID | Description | Time (in minutes) to Process | |||||
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Availability demote |
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116 |
This rule moves an airline to the bottom (demote) or demotes it below its original position (weight demotion) within an Availability display. |
5-10 | ||
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Availability promote |
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115 |
This rule moves an airline to the top (promote) or otherwise moves it above its original position (weight promotion) within an Availability display. |
5-10 | ||
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Bias/exclude multi-airport connections
(SCC: Restrict Multi-Airport Connections) |
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This rule excludes flight itineraries that arrive in one airport and depart from another airport. |
5-10 | ||
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Cabin class actions |
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13 |
This rule improves choice and price competitiveness by returning ‘mixed cabin’ fares for journeys where airlines are specifically offering this differentiated product to travelers. |
20 | ||
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Commercially important airline |
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80 |
This rule designates and ensures that an airline is represented in search results. |
5-10 | ||
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Direct Flights only
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This rule limits Shopping/Search requests to non-stop and stopping direct flights only. |
5-10 |
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Display only online solutions
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69 |
The application of this rule results in only online solutions in the shopping results. |
5-10 | ||
| Exclude airlines
(SCC: Restrict Carrier – Block Carrier) |
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104 | This rule excludes specified airlines from shop, fare, quote, fare display, availability, and sell. | 20 |
| Exclude airport / city locations
(SCC: Restrict Airport or City Locations) |
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59 | When a location is excluded, if that location occurs either in the shopping request or in a result as the origin, destination, or connection, the itinerary that contains that location, is excluded from the shopping results. | ||||
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Exclude connections between airlines
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This rule excludes the airline connection specified from shopping results. The airlines in the rule will automatically be prevented from being combined in simple round trips, open jaws, and multi-trip itineraries. |
20 | ||
| Exclude Fare or Fare Family (SCC: Inhibit Fare or Fare Family) |
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68 | This rule excludes fares from being returned in shop, pricing, or fare display results. It allows fares content to be controlled via seven different configurations: Fare basis code(s), Booking code(s), Fare basis code(s) and booking code(s) combined, Cabin, Tariff and/or rule, Fares – Public/Private, and Industry Fare Type(s). | 20 |
| Exclude fares by brand name |
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157 | Excludes specific brands being returned in the shop, pricing, or fare display results. | ||||
| Exclude flight / flight ranges (SCC: Restrict Specific Flight or Flight Ranges) |
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49 | This rule excludes a specific airline flight or flight range from shop, availability, and sell. | 5-10 | ||
| Exclude marketing airlines for time window
(SCC: Restrict Marketing Carrier for Time Window) |
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51 | This rule excludes one or more marketing airlines from shopping results for a given time period. | 5-10 | |||
| Exclude marketing / codeshare airlines
(SCC: Restrict Carrier – Marketing/Codeshare ) |
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6 | This rule excludes either the specified marketing only, or codeshare combinations. | 5-10 | ||
| Exclude/Only Include Branded Fares
(SCC: Rich Content and Branding by Carrier) |
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57 | This rule allows customers to either include or exclude the rich content, ancillary information, and optional branded fares for the airline(s) specified in the rule. This rule does not affect the presence of branded fares in fare quote or search responses. It only applies to supplementary content. | 20 | ||||
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Exclude undesirable connection points
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52 |
This rule excludes the connection point(s) from being considered in a shopping transaction. |
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120 |
This rule splits a single search request into two or three requests, allowing the user to receive the lowest public, private, and NET fares. |
5-10 | |
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(SCC: Restrict Maximum Connection Times) |
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This rule excludes connections based on an amount of time between one flight and another. |
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Maximum journey time
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106 |
This rule sets an upper limit, in minutes, for the entire length of time that an itinerary takes from origin to destination. |
5-10 |
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(SCC: Maximum Number of Connections) |
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This rule excludes search solutions based on the number of connections specified. The rule can be further defined by airline, market, or geography. |
5-10 |
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Maximum number of results
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53 |
This rule reduces the shopping response size while still providing diverse itineraries. The maximum number of results do not exceed the contracted e-Pricing Tier Level. |
5-10 | ||
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Maximum overnight connection time (SCC: Restrict Overnight Connection Times) |
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This rule excludes overnight itineraries for connecting flights if the connection time is greater than the time specified in the rule. |
5-10 |
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Minimum connection time
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11 |
This rule excludes connections based on an amount of time between one flight and another. This rule eliminates short connection times that customers may not want even through they meet published Minimum Connection Times (MCT). Longer connections through particular airports may be preferred. |
5-10 |
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151 |
This rule allows customers to indicate a preference for NDC content when compared to traditional GDS content in their search results. Note: This rule applies to Fare Shop only and is exclusive to Smartpoint Cloud/ Travelport+, integrated search (combined Traditional as well as NDC search). |
5-10 | |
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150 |
This rule gives the customer control over how long the system will wait for search results from an NDC airline. The system default wait time is ten seconds. Note: This rule applies to Fare Shop only and is exclusive to Smartpoint Cloud/ Travelport+, integrated search (combined Traditional as well as NDC search). |
5-10 | |
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Permit multi-airport connections |
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Allows cross-town connections to be built only for the cities specified (maximum of 50 cities). For instance, if NYC and PAR are chosen, then when flight search is performed for the trip requested, cross town connections will be built only in NYC and PAR if applicable. |
5-10 |
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127 |
This rule allows fares from airlines to be preferenced by not including similar fares from other airlines that fall within a price and departure time range. NOTE: Promote preferred fares requires additional provisioning and authorization. Contact your Account Management team to participate in the Alpha-phase testing for this feature. |
5-10 | |
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Rule override |
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60 |
Specifies if the system settings will override optional customer entries for a limited number of rule types. |
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Validating airline override |
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101 |
This rule uses or excludes validating carriers, based on the criteria selected within the rule. |
5-10 |