Process Excluded and Display-Only Flights

Universal Policy starts by processing the display-only and excluded flight configurations. Universal Policy loops through all price points, removes any options that contain excluded segments, and checks remaining options against any display-only configurations.

The settings in this topic are configured on either the Add/Edit Display-Only Airline or Add/Edit Excluded Airline screens.

When processing display-only configurations, Universal Policy first determines on a leg-by-leg basis if a display-only option exists on a specific leg. Note: For an option to match a display-only configuration, all segments in the option must be specified as display-only. If a leg has a display-only option on it, then only options that are fully operated by the display-only carriers will be retained. All other options will be removed.

Of the following two price points, neither price point would be returned if VA has been configured as display-only worldwide because neither price point is completely served by display-only carriers:

  • Price point A: Leg 1 BNE-SYD QF, Leg 2 SYD-BNE VA
  • Price point B: Leg 1 BNE-SYD VA, Leg 2 SYD-BNE QF

If display-only carriers have been configured but no display-only carriers are found in a given response, all price points will be returned.

If all options for a price point are removed due to either exclusion or display-only processing, the entire price point will be removed from the response.

If a super-preferred carrier is encountered during this processing it is noted for later.

If all price points are removed from a given group Universal Policy adds a message to the response to show that EXCLUSION PROCESSING caused them all to be removed.

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