Trip Quote (Smartpoint 10.0 and Later)

Creating Flight Availability Schedules

You can send flight schedule options for your travelers to review and select.

Note: This option provides flight information so that your traveler can compare schedules, but does not include fare quotes. To add pricing and fees, create Quote options for priced itinerary.
To create flight availability options:
  1. Make an Air Availability search. For brevity, this response is limited to four results for each segment. However, Trip Quote includes all of the segments returned in each window.

  1. In the Air Availability results, click the Filter icon.
  2. Flex Windows icon:
    Tip! Although the Filter icon displays in each window, you only need to click the icon once to include availability for all segments.
  3. Classic Windows icon:

The Filters screen is displayed.

  1. Make any desired changes to the results. See Filtering Air Availability Results for details.
  2. Click +TQ to add the results to Trip Quote.
  3. Click CLOSE to exit the Filters screen.
  4. Open the Trip Quote basket.
  5. In the Trip Quotes and Itineraries window, click the Flight Availability tab to display the available air segments.

Tip! At any time, you can refresh or save changes to the flight schedules.

  • Click Refresh preview to display the changes you have made. You can also click the REFRESH button at the bottom of the screen.

  • Click Save to save the current itinerary changes to retrieve later.

  1. Optional. Click Show More Options to display the full Flights and Options lists.

  1. Optional. In the Flights section, select a segment and the flights for the segment.

  1. Optional. Customize the display for these flight schedules, including language, time format, theme, color scheme, and fonts.

  1. Optional. In Options, select from the available display options.

Some options are available depending on the status of the quote and whether the data is present. For example, Frequent Flyer and Seat Assignment are available only if present in the PNR/Booking File.

Reservation Information

Description

Direct flights first

By default, flight schedules are displayed in order of departure time. If Direct flights first is selected, flights are sorted by departure time, but show the direct flights at the top of the display.

Carrier logo

Displays only for the Mobile, Smartpoint, and Simple themes.

Tab header

Displays header lines a for each route.

Agency Info

Agency logos and contact informationan be added in the Template section of the Templates and Settings tab.
  1. You can refresh at any time, but be sure to click Refresh preview or the REFRESH button after you complete all changes.
  2. After your itinerary is ready, you can click:
  • Save to save the current flight schedules to retrieve later.
  • PDF to save the schedules as a PDF file, which can be attached to an email or text.
  • EMAIL to send the schedules as an email.
  • COPY to copy the schedules to the Windows clipboard.
Tip! Click CANCEL to close the screen without any changes.