Low Fare Shop functionality combines air availability and a fare quote request to return the lowest available fares for a specified itinerary, using origin/destination and date information. Fares are available for one-way, round-trip, and multi-city travel. Low Fare Shop does not require a booked itinerary to return fare data.
Low Fare Shop serves as a fare shopper tool for users who want to check prices for a general itinerary. It is best suited for fare-driven travelers. A number of modifiers can be added to the Low Fare Shop request to return specified responses. These modifiers include: time period, included or excluded carriers, private fare modifiers, and passenger types.
If a search is more oriented toward scheduling or availability than lowest fare options, the Air Availability and Pricing Model can be used as an alternative to a Low Fare Shopping transaction.
The following table represents a basic, end-to-end flow of a Low Fare Shopping (LFS) model. Certain transactions within this flow can be modified.
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Required. Combines air availability and a fare quote request to return the lowest available fares for a specified itinerary, using origin/destination and date information. Low Fare Shopping does not require a booked itinerary to return fare data. A number of modifiers can be added to the Low Fare Shopping request to return specified responses. These modifiers include: flexible dates and times, included or excluded carriers, private fare modifiers, and passenger types. |
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Always recommended, sometimes required. Prices selected availability/pricing options from the Low Fare Shopping response. In the Low Fare Shopping model, prices are returned with availability, so pricing is not a discrete function. However, to confirm accuracy of the priced data, a follow-on Air Pricing transaction is recommended. Also, some Low Cost Carriers do not include full pricing information (such as taxes and fees) in the LFS response. In these cases, a follow-on Air Pricing transaction is required. |
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Required. Fare rules supply the requirements or penalties associated with a specific fare quote. For brevity, Low Fare Shopping responses do not include fare rules. Therefore, a follow-on Fare Rules request is required to obtain rules information. |
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Optional. Seat maps display which seats are available for a given flight, as well as their location within the aircraft. Availability of seat maps varies by supplier and specific flight. |
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Required. After flight and fare options are selected, the priced segment can be reserved. Air booking can include a number of modifiers, such as seat assignments (generic or specific), ticket designators, SSRs/OSIs and other types of remarks, and tour codes, as well as forms of payment. |
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The booked flights may be ticketed. Fares (even stored fares) can be subject to change up to the point of ticketing. |
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