Power Pricing

Power Pricing with Cryptic Entries

Power Pricing prices a booked itinerary at the lowest available fare, and searches schedules and fares to find the lowest priced alternative itineraries.

You can request a Power Pricing search from either the ePricing script or a cryptic command.

To book an alternative itinerary with Power Pricing:
  1. Book an air itinerary.

Tip! Use Power Shopper to price an unbooked itinerary.

  1. Enter a Power Pricing command. The base command is 4PLI and additional modifiers can be added.

Tip! Include the change symbol @ with any of the entries to ensure that the Worldspan system checks last seat availability for Direct Access participants.

Command Returns

4PLI@/ABA-SN

Itineraries with specified carriers. BA and SN only.

4PLI#-/*A

Only itineraries with specified alliance

  • *A = Star Alliance
  • *O = onewold Alliance
  • *S = SkyTeam Alliance

4PLID@

Direct services only (Direct Access)

4PLIM

Multi airport cities search (when city, airport codes the same. For example, BFS or HOU)

4PLI@PADT/CNN

Price for specific passenger fare types.

4PLI@PADT/CNN#/$

Price for specific passenger fare types, with breakdown on front screen

4PLI*

Redisplays the response.

The Power Pricing response is displayed.

Note: As of Travelport Smartpoint 8.1, responses to a cryptic Power Pricing request are displayed in the interactive Smart Screen. However, cryptic follow-on commands continue to be supported.

The Power Pricing response returns alternative fares and itineraries. Alternative fares are based on the total fare for all passengers.

Alternative itineraries vary depending on the price of the itinerary currently booked. In this example, a fare was booked for two passengers on Aegean Airlines that totaled 904.60 USD. A basic 4PLI response was entered, and no optional modifiers were added to the Power Pricing request.

This example shows only the first three fares in the response, however, the maximum number of alternatives depends on your tier level.

  • The first alternative fare is always the lowest available fare in the applicable cabin for the booked itinerary.
  • Any additional alternative fares are displayed from the lowest price to the highest price, regardless of the airline.
  1. Optional. Click Details for any fare to view the fare details for that option.

4PLI*F1 shows the fare break down and gives access to the Mini Rule.

  1. Optional. Click Rules for any fare to view the fare rules for that option.
  2. Optional. To email alternative itineraries, select the desired itineraries, then click the Email icon.
  3. Optional. To print alternative itineraries, select the desired itineraries, then click the Print icon.
  4. To book a new fare, you can either:
  5. Click REBOOK at the top of the page to book the lowest fare option for the same flights. This option is displayed only if a lower alternative fare is available on the same flights.

If you select REBOOK, the fare details and mini rules are displayed.

Cryptic Equivalent: 4PLIB rebooks the lowest fare option for the same flight, if present.

  1. Select an alternative itinerary and click BOOK.

4PLIB1 books the first alternative fare without canceling the original flights.

4PLIB1K Books the first alternative fare, but does not cancel the original flights. However, you must ensure that you manually cancel any unwanted sectors before ending the PNR.

The alternative fare is booked. By default, the original flights are canceled.

  1. End transact the PNR to confirm the new booking.