Net Fare search and inbox

Users will open Net Fare Manager on the Net Fare Search and Inbox screen. The Inbox will be pre-populated with carrier, tariff, and rules filed to the supplier code signed in with and also filed with sell, ticket, update and redistribution authority. The Inbox will display carrier, tariff, rules that with the status of NEW meaning it has no mark-up applied, or UPDATED meaning that there is a mark-up, but we’ve received an update from a change made by the airline through ATPCO.

On this page:

Net Fare Search

The Net Fare search area of the screen allows users to refine the within the Inbox results for specific tariff and rules.

Inbox search type

  • Inbox - Displays Carrier Tariff and Rules information with update and redistribute authority for this supplier.

    • Select ALL to display all new and updated carrier, tariff, and rules.
      Note: When searching for all net fares, the search results may take some time to load, depending on the number of Tariff and Rules being returned.

    • Select NEW to display only new Carrier Tariff and Rules.

    • Select UPDATED to display only Carrier Tariff and Rules that have a markup/distribution applied but the carrier has made a change that could affect the selling level.

  • Existing Selling Levels - Searches for selling levels that the supplier has previously created

  • Carrier – Enter a valid 2-3 alphanumeric airline code.

  • Tariff – Enter a 3 numeric tariff code.

  • Rule – Enter a 4 alphanumeric rule number.

  • Account Code – Enter a 20 alphanumeric airline filed account code.

  • No Account Code – To search for tariff and rules where the airline has not filed any account codes select the check box.

  • Discontinue date – Enter a discontinue date with the format DDMMMYY or select from the date picker. This date will match the Last Ticket Date entered by users within the global or detailed selling level screen.

    • Less Than - Select from the drop down Less Than to refine the discontinue date search for any matches on the date entered and any date before that.

    • Equal To – To return results only for the date entered, select the Equal to from the drop-down

  • No Discontinue date – To search for tariff/rules marked up using the default last ticket date of 31DEC99 select the No Discontinue date check box

  • For Discontinue date searches only carrier, tariff, rules with a status of UPDATED will be returned.

After entering one or more of the search options select the Search button.

To apply multiple search options, enter the first search criteria followed by the Add to search combination button, repeat this until all search combinations have been added and then select the Search button.

The Inbox will display the results based of the search criteria entered.

Net Fare Inbox

Inbox information

The table below describes the data that is shown in the Inbox.

Column

Description

First column with check boxes or locks

Select the check box or boxes to which tariffs/rules you want to add a selling level to.

Note: Check the All button in the column header to select all tariffs/rules that are displayed on the page.

No.

The line number of the carrier, tariff, and rule within the Inbox.

Carrier

Display the Carrier Code

Tariff

Displays the tariff number

Rule

Displays the rule numbers.

Description

Displays areas to which the tariff applies. If the description is truncated (i.e., displays dots at the end), hover the mouse over the description to display a popup with the full description.

Status

Provides the status of the tariff/rule. Hover over the UPDATED status to display a detailed description of the update made by the carrier.

  • New – Indicates that a carrier has filed a tariff/rule giving this supplier update and redistribution authority, and the supplier has not yet created any selling levels. These lines always display in the Inbox until a selling level is created. A Category 25 tariff has an asterisk (*) – New*.  

  • Updated – Displays when a carrier changes something in a filing that could affect the selling level previously set by the supplier. When the supplier hovers over the status a description of the change is displayed. To the right of the Updated status, the type of selling level is identified.

    • indicates that the global selling level was set.

      These lines continue to display in the Inbox until the update is ignored or the selling level is updated. A Category 25 tariff has an asterisk (*) – UPDATED*.

Note: For the current release in Smart Mark-up, editing or ignoring Updated tariff/rules is not available.

Selling Level
Minimum/Maximum

Identifies the minimum and/or maximum selling ranges set by the carrier. This amount could be displayed as a calculated amount (i.e., percentage) and/or a monetary amount (currency code included). The word Multiple displays if there is more than one minimum and/or maximum selling levels filed by the carrier.

PTC

Displays the primary passenger type code to which this rule applies. If multiple PTCs apply to this rule, the text Mult displays. PTCs filed in the discount rule categories 19-22 are not displayed.

Account Code

The account code, if filed. If Multiple displays, there are multiple account codes for this tariff/rule. Hover over the word Multiple to display all account codes.

Tour Box

This column contains the data the carrier has filed that must be placed in the Tour Box when a ticket is issued. When data displays it is further qualified with the type of data the carrier has filed.

  • T - tour code

  • C - CAR code

  • V - value code

  • B - both CAR and value code

  • If multiple tour box codes apply to this rule, the word Multiple displays.

Tkt Designator

This column displays the ticket designator filed by the carrier.  The column is left blank when no ticket designator has been filed. If multiple ticket designators apply to this rule, the word Multiple displays.

 

Inbox Actions

Once you select the tariffs/rules from the list, the following actions are available for the current release of Net Fare Manager within Smart Mark-up.

Select the tariffs/rules from the list.

Button

Display Conditions

Description

Add global selling level

Activated when one or multiple tariff/rules are selected with a status of NEW.

 

Opens the Global Selling Level screen, which allows users to apply a markup across the whole tariff and rule(s) or by specific criteria and then distribute the Tariff/Rule.

Ignore

  • Displays when ALL or UPDATED selling level fares are requested on the Search page.

  • Only valid with a status of Updated.

Ignores the update filed by the carrier and removes it from the Inbox. When Ignore is applied, the Inbox is updated so that the tariff/rules status is changed from UPDATED to SELLING. The tariff/rule will not display in the Inbox again unless the airline makes another update to the tariff/rule.

Page pagination

Display more Inbox results, move across pages

Allow users to move through the Inbox pages, or expand the number of results that display at one time.

Search

Available at any time

Refreshes the Inbox with any new items available since the screen was last displayed. If any lines were selected, the check boxes are cleared.