Retrieving a past date booking file

HELP PQ or H/PQ

Booking files become “past date” 24 hours after their last travel date and can only be retrieved up to 13 months after their last travel date.

Assume you receive a query from a passenger who traveled recently, asking when a flight was canceled in their booking file. Attempt to retrieve the booking file with its record locator: *2GNDNF

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The passenger traveled a few days previously, and the booking file has become past date.

To retrieve it as a past date booking file, enter PQ/R-2GNDNF

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Tab and type CONFIRM and then press Enter at the cursor.

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Because the booking file is less than 60 days old, it will be queued immediately to the general queue Q1 category PD. Entry: QCA

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A booking file will remain in the queue for seven days after which it is programmatically purged. If a booking file is more than 60 days old or too large, it will be queued to the same queue for retrieval after 24 hours.

Record locators are recycled after a booking file has been purged. If there is more than one past date booking file with the same record locator, a multiple name list is displayed.

To retrieve the booking file when it is available, enter Q/1*CPD. You can also press PD in green to open the first booking in queue 1 PD category. If you select the number of bookings, a list is displayed.

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As the booking file is past date and all segments have been traveled, there are no active segments shown.

To investigate the query from your customer, enter *H to display history.

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Refer to the HELP pages: H/PQ for more PDQ booking file retrieval formats.

Note: It is not possible to retrieve a booking file beyond 13 months.

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