Evaluate Policy

After Universal Policy ranks all air segments used in all price points, it evaluates the price points against all configured policy settings, as described in the topics in this section.

Note that the policy logic processing described in this section is applied only if the settings for that option are configured for the policy in use. For example, if no preferred airlines are configured for a policy, Universal Policy does not carry out the processing steps applicable to preferred airlines.

Note that when processing a one-way component shop request (applicable only to specifically provisioned customers), each leg of the route (group) is evaluated independently of any other legs. For example, for most requests, a search request such as BNE-SYD-BNE will be processed as a single round trip group / route with multiple legs (BNE-SYD, SYD-BNE). If one-way component shop is used, the response data would be processed as two separate groups (BNE-SYD and SYD-BNE) with configurations such as advance purchase or lowest recommended fare being evaluated independently against each group. Policy for one-way component shop is set on the Policy Options and Exclusions screen.

If the policy has been configured to exclude all but the lowest fare per flight option or airline in the first group of a one-way response and Universal Policy is processing the first group, Universal Policy loops through all the price points and flight options / options and determines the lowest fare for each option. Universal Policy loops through all the price points again and removes any higher fares for the same option.

Before entering the policy evaluation, the price points associated with the group being processed are gathered into a single list and passed into the policy processing. After the evaluation processing, Universal Policy loops through any other groups included in the request before sending a single response back to the caller.

If the policy has been configured to exclude all but the lowest fare per flight option or airline in the first group of a one-way response and Universal Policy is processing the first group, Universal Policy loops through all the price points and flight options / options and determines the lowest fare for each option. Universal Policy loops through all the price points again and removes any higher fares for the same option.

For each group, Universal Policy loops through all airports in the route / leg list. If any airport is in a country not listed as domestic in the policy group configuration (domestic assignments are made on the Add/Edit Policy Group screen) the evaluation will be processed using the international settings on the Policy Options and Exclusions screen. If all countries are in the domestic list the evaluation will be processed using the domestic settings on this screen.

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