Smartpanel
Pricing Fares with Smartpanel
After you select an Flight Shopping option or Air Availability itinerary, you can use Smartpanel to price/fare quote and/or store fares for your selections. You can price fares as one ticket or individual tickets.
- For Air Availability, pricing is required to price the selected itinerary.
- For Flight Shopping:
- For Direct Payment Carriers, pricing is required after fare shopping to ensure that the most recent fares are quoted.
- For Network (GDS) Carries, pricing is strongly recommended after fare shopping. While a selected availability and pricing option can be booked without pricing for Network Carriers, it is best practice to price before booking to validate your selected pricing option.
To price an itinerary in Smartpanel:
- Select an Air Availability itinerary or book a Flight Shopping option.
- Open or display Smartpanel, if necessary.
- Click the Air Pricing tab to display the pricing and stored fare options for your selected itinerary. This tab is available only if your PNR/Booking File contains a booked itinerary.
- Select the desired pricing or stored fare radio button. Available options vary by GDS.
Travelport+ (1G) Example
Travelport+ (1G) customers can select from Best Buy (FQBB), Fare Quote (FQ), and Fare Quote Alternatives (FQA).
More Information
For more information about these fare quote options, in the Travelport Knowledge Base see:
The Pricing category.
Apollo (1V) Example
Apollo (1V) customers can select from Best Buy ($BB), Quote and Store (T:$B), and Quote Only ($B).
For more information about these fare quote options, in the Travelport Knowledge Base see:
The Pricing category.
- Optional. Click the Fare Type arrow to select a fare type. Depending on the selected fare type, you may also need to enter an Account Code.
An account code may be required to see all relevant fares for these fare types:
- ALL - Published and Private Fares
- PF - Private Fares Only
- PPN - Published and Private and Net
If applicable, in Account Code enter an account code or click the arrow to select an account code associated to this PCC.
- Optional. In Ticket, you can set options for split ticketing.
- Optional. Click the Pricing Modifiers
icon open the Pricing Modifiers window to enter advanced search modifiers for this segment, such as fares, penalties, connections, carriers, and availability.
When a segment includes modifiers, the icon becomes orange
.
Tip! Select Apply to all segments to choose these shopping modifiers for all segments in the itinerary.
When you are finished entering an shopping modifiers, click APPLY to add the modifiers and resdisplay Smartpanel.
You can also:
- Click CANCEL redisplay Smartpanel without changes.
- Click RESET to clear any changes and enter any modifiers again.
Fare Modifier
Details
Agency Private Only
Returns only agency private fares in the Fare Shopping results.
This check box is enabled only if you select Private Only for Fare Type on the Basic tab.
Airline Private Only
Returns only airline private fares in the Fare Shopping results.
This check box is enabled only if you select Private Only for Fare Type on the Basic tab.
Tax Exempt
Indicates an untaxed fare.
No Cabin Downgrade
Exclude Economy Unbundled Fares (FXD)
Excludes Economy Unbundled Fares from the response.
Account Code Only
Limits responses only to private fares for GDS (Network) Carriers or Direct Payment Carriers.
As of Smartpoint v7.1, account codes for Direct Payment Carriers are supported in Smartpoint. You can also enter account codes for private fares for GDS (Network) Carriers and one Direct Payment Carrier in a single request.
Select to exclude any applicable OB Fees from the Fare Shopping response:
- All Fees excludes both Ticketing Fees (OB-T) and Form of Payment (OT-F) Fees.
- Ticketing Fees excludes only Ticketing Fees (OB-T) Fees.
- Payment Fees excludes only Form of Payment (OT-F) Fees.
Ticketing Fees:OBX-T
Form of Payment (FOP) Fees:OBX-F
Description
Example
Exclude all fees from the Fare Shopping results.
FSMCI22JANATL28JANMCI+OBX
Exclude FOP Fees from the Fare Shopping results.
FSMCI22JANATL28JANMCI+OBXF
Exclude Ticketing Fees from the Fare Shopping results.
FSMCI22JANATL28JANMCI+OBXT
GDS Carrier Account Code
In GDS Carrier Account Code, click the Code arrow to select from account codes available for GDS (Network) carriers for your agency.
If Account Code Only is also selected, only fares for the specified account code are returned.
Direct Payment Carrier Account Code
In GDS Carrier Account Code:
- Click the Code arrow to select from account codes available for your agency.
- In the Carrier text box, enter the two-character airline code associated to your selected account code.
If Account Code Only is also selected, only fares for the specified account code are returned.
ZFS(origin)(date)(destination)+/-(account code)*(carrier code)
Example: FSLON20JANCPH+/-123456*U2
Direct Payment Carrier Promo Code
Promo codes for Direct Payment Carriers are supported in Smartpoint. Enter the assigned promotional code and the corresponding carrier code. The availability of promotional codes varies by carrier.
Promotional fares are indicated in the Fare Shopping results with *PROMO FARE.
Promotional fare are also indicaed in Branded Fares.
Penalty Modifier
Details
No Minimum Stay
No Maximum Stay
No Advanced Purchase
Penalty Tolerance
Click the drop-down arrow to specify a penalty tolerance amount.
In Discount Modifiers, click the arrow to select a fare discount or fare increase option. Then, enter a flat amount or percent for the selected option.
This discount modifier applies to all passengers in the itinerary. However, you can use terminal formats to apply modifiers to individual passengers in the itinerary.
The modifier codes vary by GDS.
DP - Discount Percent (base fare)
DF - Discount Amount (base fare)
DT - Discount Amount (total fare)
IP - Increase Percent (base fare)
IF - Increase Amount (base fare)
RP - Discount Percent (base fare)
FA - Discount Amount (base fare)
DT - Discount Amount (total fare)
IP - Increase Percent (base fare)
IF - Increase Amount (base fare)
- Optional. When the itinerary is complete, you select one or more modifiers:
- No penalties
- No restrictions
- Optional. In Segments, indicate specific segments to include in the pricing entry if you do not want to price all segments. You can indicate individual segments or a range.
Segments can be identified as:
- Individual segments separated by a period. For example, Segment 1 and Segment 3: 1.3
- A range of segments separated by a hyphen. For example, Segment 2 through Segment 5: 2-5
- A combination of individual segments and a range. For example: Segment 1, Segment 2, and Segments 4 through 6: 1.2.4-6
- Optional. Click the Passengers arrow if you want to change the passenger type (PTC) for any of the passengers in the itinerary.
- After completing your pricing and/or fared stored tasks, click SEND to update the PNR/Booking File. See Selling Flights from Fare Shopping and Selling Flights from Availability for more information about seat assignments, ancillary services, and other booking-related tasks.
Tips!
- You can also use the Edit tab to change the departure, segment status, or booking code.
- Any changes made through the Smartpanel are automatically updated in the PNR/Booking File. You can also select Auto Refresh from PNR to automatically reflect any changes made directly to the PNR/Booking File in Smartpanel.
If Auto Refresh from PNR is:
- Selected, Smartpoint continuously checks PNR/Booking File and automatically updates Smartpanel. However, this activity can cause Smartpoint to run a little more slowly.
- Not selected, Smartpanel is only refreshed on the tab that is displayed and active. For example, if you add new passengers, Smartpanel is not automatically updated.
However, if you choose not to use Auto Refresh, you can still manually update Smartpanel by clicking anywhere in the Smartpanel window/pane.
Known Issue: If the Auto Refresh from PNR is not select, and the Smartpanel updates after clicking into any field in the Smartpanel, then you need to must click a second time to actually enter data.