User Guide
Amadeus Offers Travel Agent’s Guide
Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 6 Features ................................................................................................................................. 6 Benefits .................................................................................................................................. 6 Conditions to Create an Offer .................................................................................................... 7 Offers Expiry .............................................................................................................................. 7 Single offer expiry .................................................................................................................. 7 Offers PNR purge date ........................................................................................................... 7 Create an Air Offer..................................................................................................................... 8 Name Element ....................................................................................................................... 8 Contact Information ................................................................................................................ 8 Ticketing Element................................................................................................................... 8 Availability Display ................................................................................................................. 9 Sell Air Segment .................................................................................................................... 9 Availability Display ................................................................................................................. 9 Sell Air Segment .................................................................................................................. 10 Informative Pricing ............................................................................................................... 10 Creation an Offer.................................................................................................................. 11 Mark-up ................................................................................................................................ 11 Redisplay PNR ................................................................................................................. 11 Informative Pricing ............................................................................................................... 12 Save offers ........................................................................................................................... 13 Retrieve offers ...................................................................................................................... 13 Display Offer Price Details ....................................................................................................... 14 Cancelling Offer ....................................................................................................................... 16 Send Offer Notice .................................................................................................................... 17 Conditions to Send Offer Notice ........................................................................................... 17 Options to Send Offer Notice ............................................................................................... 17 APE field in the PNR ........................................................................................................ 17 APE field not in the PNR .................................................................................................. 17 Default Layout for Offer Notice ................................................................................................ 18 Verify Offers ............................................................................................................................. 19 Confirming Offer in to Booking ................................................................................................. 20 Create a Hotel Offer................................................................................................................. 23
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Name Element ..................................................................................................................... 23 Contact Information .............................................................................................................. 23 Ticketing Element................................................................................................................. 23 Hotel Availability Display ...................................................................................................... 24 Hotel Availability and Rates ................................................................................................. 24 Creation a Hotel Offer .......................................................................................................... 25 Hotel Details ......................................................................................................................... 25 Redisplay PNR ................................................................................................................. 26 Save Offer ........................................................................................................................ 26 Examples for Amadeus Offers ................................................................................................. 27 Multi Passengers in the PNR ............................................................................................... 27 Name Element .................................................................................................................. 27 Contact Element ............................................................................................................... 27 Ticketing Element ............................................................................................................. 27 Availability Display ............................................................................................................ 28 Sell Air Segments ............................................................................................................. 28 Informative Pricing ............................................................................................................ 29 Create Offer ...................................................................................................................... 29 Availability Display ............................................................................................................ 30 Sell Air Segments ............................................................................................................. 30 Informative Price............................................................................................................... 31 Create Offer ...................................................................................................................... 31 Save offers ....................................................................................................................... 31 Create offers with Best Buy Tool .......................................................................................... 32 Name Element .................................................................................................................. 32 Contact Element ............................................................................................................... 32 Ticketing Element ............................................................................................................. 32 Sell Air Segments ............................................................................................................. 33 Best Buy Price Tool .......................................................................................................... 33 Retrieve Booked Itinerary ................................................................................................. 34 Informative Price............................................................................................................... 34 Create Offer ...................................................................................................................... 35 Save offers ....................................................................................................................... 35 Create Offers with Master Pricer Expert Tool ....................................................................... 36 Name Element .................................................................................................................. 36 Contact Element ............................................................................................................... 36 Ticketing Element ............................................................................................................. 36 Page 3
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Master Pricer Expert Transaction ..................................................................................... 37 Select Recommendation .................................................................................................. 37 Save offers ....................................................................................................................... 38 Create Offer for Air and Hotel .............................................................................................. 39 Name Element .................................................................................................................. 39 Contact Element ............................................................................................................... 39 Ticketing Element ............................................................................................................. 39 Availability Display ............................................................................................................ 40 Sell Air Segments ............................................................................................................. 40 Informative Pricing ............................................................................................................ 41 Create Offer ...................................................................................................................... 41 Hotel Availability Display .................................................................................................. 42 Hotel Availability and Rates .............................................................................................. 42 Create Offer ...................................................................................................................... 43 Hotel Offer Details ............................................................................................................ 43 Save offers ....................................................................................................................... 44
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Security level Company
Amadeus Qatar W.L.L
Department
Training Services
Author
Muhammad Zafar Minhas
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Approved by Version
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May 2012
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Introduction Amadeus Offers allows you to store and exchange travel proposals with travelers via a central, cross-channel facility. Automated processes replacing time-consuming workarounds that deliver impressive productivity gains, reducing the average time spent on trip management by as much as 60%. Offers are created and stored in a single PNR, and the details can be easily exchanged with the traveller via e-mail using the Offer Notice. Once validated, an offer can be confirmed into a booking in a single transaction. Creating offers gives the traveller a choice between different trips. For example, with same origin and destination but with different classes of travel or at different times of the day. Offers are quotations of Air or Hotel bookings, with no guarantee of price or availability until the offer has been confirmed. Amadeus offers allow you to create offers in PNRs and send the offer details to customers. Once the customer has selected one or more offers, you confirm the offer into a firm booking in the PNR.
Features Amadeus offers features are:
Easy to use, follows the same booking pattern Contain Maximum of 20 Air or Hotel offers Contain Maximum 12 Air Segments. Converts offer into reservation with one entry. Centrally stored and retrieved easily, integrated in the PNR. Ability to refresh offer multiple times Offer Notice is customizable, Pre-formatted e-mail
Benefits Amadeus Offers unique innovation delivers the following core benefits: Increase productivity: by replacing time-consuming workarounds (60% gain) Enhanced customer satisfaction and retention. Revenue diversification: charge customers for proposals. Competitive edge: travelers ask quotes from other TAs, the fastest wins. Better customer service: consistent, demonstrate value and obligation. Protect against ADM: some airline charge for cancelled bookings and dupes.
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Conditions to Create an Offer Offers can be created under the following conditions. User must have the right to access the PNR PNR must be active (If all the booked air segments of a PNR are flown, no offer can be added) Offer must be compatible with segment status code. For Air Offers, supported segments are: Confirmed, staff, HN and NN. Offer creation on passive status code is not possible. Offer must be compatible with segment type (segment type must not be open, ARNK, informational, service, ghost, passive or negotiated) Offer is not created if number of air segments is greater than the number authorized (12 per offer) Priced segment(s) must be in the PNR before offer creation in cryptic mode Segment used to create offers must not be ticketed Offers can only be created on Air and Hotel content
Offers Expiry Offers expire after certain duration.
Single offer expiry An offer is considered as expired when: Either 30 days have passed since its creation Or the first offer element is past-dated
Offers PNR purge date In case a PNR has been created with Offers (not with an itinerary) and has never been committed (saved with end of transaction) with an itinerary, it is purged from central system only after all these dates: At least, PNR’s creation date +4 days At least, All Offers in the PNR expiry dates At least, for a retrieved PNR, PNR’s initial expiry date
Note: After PNR purge, Offers cannot be accessed anymore
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Create an Air Offer Following are steps to create an Air Offer
Name Element To add Name / Names element in the PNR, Entry: NM1WATSON/JOHN MR System Response:
Contact Information To add Contact Information in the PNR To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 44483888 To add E-mail, Entry: APE-helpdek.qat@amadeus.com System Response:
Ticketing Element To add Ticketing element in the PNR, Entry: TK OK –or- TKTL10AUG System Response:
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Availability Display To check availability for the segments you would like to set as offer Entry: AN14AUGDOHKHI/AQR System Response
Sell Air Segment To sell the seat for required booking class, Entry: SS1D1 System Response
Repeats Availability & Sell transaction for required itinerary you would like to set as offer Availability Display Entry: AN19AUGKHIDOH/AQR System Response
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Sell Air Segment Entry: SS1D1 System Response
Informative Pricing Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST. Entry: FXX -or- FXX/S2-3 System Response
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Creation an Offer To create offer for displayed price, Entry: OFS (Default Air Content) –or- OFS/A (Air Content) System Response
Mark-up If you would like to add Mark-up (Optional) Entry: OFS/MK-350 (Default Air Content) -or-
OFS/A/MK-350 (Air Content)
System response:
Redisplay PNR Once offer has attached in the PNR, re-display PNR for further action, Entry: RT System Response
The ‘’OFR’’ tag has attached in the header of the PNR
You can repeats above steps to create another offer in the PNR as required
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Informative Pricing Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST. Entry: FXX -or- FXX/S2-5 System Response
To create offer for displayed informative pricing, Entry: OFS/MK-350 – or - OFS/A/MK-350
System Response
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Save offers Once required offers created in the PNR, save the changes, Entry: RFA; ER System Response
Retrieve offers To retrieve the attached offers in the PNR, Entry: RTOF System response:
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Display Offer Price Details When the offer has been successfully priced and is linked to a quotation record, you can display the offer price details. To display an offer price record, enter for example: TQQ/O2
Entry TQQ /O 2
Description Transaction Code Slash, Offer Identifier Offer Reference
System Response
If an offer contains multiple price records, then a price record index is displayed. For example
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To display an offer price record, enter for example: TQQ/O1 System Response
To display a price record from a price record index, enter for example: TQQ/O1/Q2 System Response
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Cancelling Offer You can cancel an offer regardless of its status. When you cancel offers, they are removed from the offer section of the PNR For Example
To cancel an offer, enter for example: XE2 –or- XE1-2 –or- XE1, 2 System Response
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Send Offer Notice You can send selected Offers in a notice to a specific e-mail address. No modification is ongoing on neither the PNR nor the Offers during this operation. Offer notice comes as a complement to the Itinerary document: no booked segments are reflected in the notice Offer notice may contain both Hotel and Air Offers, as well as Fare Notes Summary for Air Offers.
Conditions to Send Offer Notice Following are the conditions to send offer notice. PNR must have been committed once. You must end transaction PNR before sending Offer notice, and also each time you add remarks in the PNR. It is not possible to display Offers notice before sending: you can instead for example send it to an intermediary mailbox before sending it to customer. Your office must be authorized to send Offers
Options to Send Offer Notice Following are the options to send Offer notice.
APE field in the PNR If there is already APE field in the PNR, you can do the following commands. To send details of all offers to the email address in the APE field, enter: OFN To send specific offers to customer, enter: OFN/O2, 4 To send a specific Offer for a specific segment: OFN/O1*S2-3 To create several proposals: OFN/O1*S2/O2*S4/O3*S5
APE field not in the PNR To send details of all offers to the email address, enter: OFN-EML-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM To send specific offers to customer, enter: OFN-EML-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM/O2, 4 To send a specific Offer for a specific segment: OFN-EML-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM/O1*S2-3 To create several proposals: OFN-EML-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM/O1*S2/O2*S4/O3*S5 System Response
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Default Layout for Offer Notice The traveler will received HTML and PDF formats for offers
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Verify Offers You can optionally verify that an offer's booking class is still available and that the fare remains the same as when the offer was created. For example: ďƒ˜ You want to email the offers to the customer, but you created the offer some time ago. ďƒ˜ The customer wants to check that the offer price is still valid You verify offers one at a time. To verify an offer, display the offers, enter: RTOF System Response
To verifying offer 1, enter: OFV1 System Response
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Confirming Offer in to Booking When the customer has chosen the required offer, you can confirm the offer. Note: You can only confirm active offers. Confirming an offer generates a booking from the segments in the offer. As part of the confirmation, the system verifies that the offer is still available and reprices if necessary. The segments are sold and are added in the face of the PNR as a confirmed booking. You confirm offers one at a time. To confirm an offer, display the offers in the PNR For example
To confirming offer 1 in the PNR, enter: OFK1 System Response
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To re-display the PNR, enter: RT System Response
Save the changes, enter: RFA; ER System Response
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You can cancel unwanted offers from the PNR Display attached offers in the PNR, enter: RTOF System Response
To cancel Offer 2, enter: XE2 System response
Save the changes in PNR, enter: RFA; ER System response
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Create a Hotel Offer Following are steps to create a Hotel Offer
Name Element To add Name / Names element in the PNR, Entry: NM1WATSON/JOHN MR System Response:
Contact Information To add Contact Information in the PNR: To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 44483888 To add E-mail, Entry: APE-helpdek.qat@amadeus.com System Response:
Ticketing Element To add Ticketing element in the PNR, Entry: TK OK –or- TKTL10AUG System Response:
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Hotel Availability Display Check hotel availability for the segments you would like to set as offer Entry: HADXB14AUG-18AUG/HN-HILTON System Response
Hotel Availability and Rates To display Hotel Availability and rates display for Line 2 from the list, Entry: HA2 System Response
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Creation a Hotel Offer To create a Hotel offer for second rate from display, enter: OFS/H2
System Response
Hotel Details To select the offer of which you want to get details for offer 1, enter: RDP1 System Response
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Redisplay PNR Once offer has attached in the PNR, re-display PNR for further action, Entry: RT System Response
The ‘’OFR’’ tag has attached in the header of the PNR
Save Offer To save the offer in the PNR, enter: RFA; ER System Response
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Examples for Amadeus Offers Following are the examples for Amadeus Offers
Multi Passengers in the PNR Following are the steps to create Amadeus Offers for multi passengers in PNR
Name Element To add the Passenger Names: Entry: NM2SMITH/JOHN MR/JOANNA MRS (INF/MICHAEL/11JUN11) System Response
Contact Element To add contact details: To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 444838888 To add E-Mail, Entry: APE-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM System Response
Ticketing Element To add ticketing element, Entry: TKOK System Response
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Availability Display To check availability for the segments you would like to set as offer Entry: AN14JUNDOHLHR/AQR*30JUN System Response
Sell Air Segments To sell the seat for required booking class, Entry: SS2K2*13 System Response
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Informative Pricing Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST, entry: FXX System Response
Create Offer To create offer for displayed price, enter: OFS System Response
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Availability Display To check availability for the segments you would like to set as offer Entry: AN14JUNDOHLHR/AEK*30JUN System Response
Sell Air Segments To sell the seat for required booking class, enter: SS2B1*11 System Response
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Informative Price Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST, enter: FXX System Response
Create Offer To create offer for displayed price, enter: OFS System Response
Save offers To save the offers in the PNR, enter: RFA; ER System Response
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Create offers with Best Buy Tool Following are the steps to create offer with Best Buy
Name Element To add the Passenger Name, Entry: NM1SMITH/JOHN MR System Response
Contact Element To add contact details: To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 444838888 To add E-mail, Entry: APE-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM System Response
Ticketing Element To add ticketing element, Entry: TKOK System Response
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Sell Air Segments Blind sell as required itinerary
Best Buy Price Tool To find best available fare for booked carrier without creating TST, enter: FXR System Response
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Retrieve Booked Itinerary To display booked itinerary, enter: RT System Response
Informative Price Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST, enter: FXX System Response
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Create Offer To create offer for displayed price, enter: OFS System response
Save offers To save the offers in the PNR, enter: RFA; ER System response
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Create Offers with Master Pricer Expert Tool Following are steps to create offers with Master Pricer Expert tool.
Name Element To Add the Passenger Name, Entry: NM1SMITH/JOHN MR System Response
Contact Element Add contact details: To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 444838888 To add E-mail, Entry: APE-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM System Response
Ticketing Element To add ticketing element, enter: TKOK System Response
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Master Pricer Expert Transaction Search for travel recommendations for June, 14 from Doha (DOH) to London (LHR) and return on Jun, 30 from London (LHR) to Doha (DOH) Entry: FXD DOH/D15JUNLHR/D30JUNDOH System Response
Select Recommendation To select recommendation from the displayed list, enter: OFS/A1
System Response
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You can choose another recommendation from the previous displayed list, Entry: OFS/A2 System Response
Save offers To save the offers in the PNR, enter: RFA; ER System Response
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Create Offer for Air and Hotel Following are the steps to create offers for Air and Hotel
Name Element To add the Passenger Name, Entry: NM1SMITH/JOHN MR System Response
Contact Element Add contact details To add Telephone Contact, Entry: AP DOH 444838888 To add e-mail, Entry: APE-HELPDESK.QAT@AMADEUS.COM System Response
Ticketing Element To add ticketing element, Entry: TKOK System Response
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Availability Display To check availability for the segments you would like to set as offer Entry: AN15JUNDOHLHR/AQR*30JUN System Response
Sell Air Segments To sell the seat for required booking class, entry: SS1Q*13 System Response
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Informative Pricing Price the itinerary as required segments in the PNR without creating TST, entry: FXX System Response
Create Offer To create Air offer for displayed price, entry: OFS/A System Response
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Hotel Availability Display To check Hotel availability you would like to set as offer, Entry: HALON15JUN-30JUN/AR-D System response
Hotel Availability and Rates To display Hotel rates and availability for Hotel on Line 4 from display, entry: HA4 System Response
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Create Offer To create Hotel offer for displayed hotel rate 1, enter: OFS/H1 System Response
Hotel Offer Details To display the Hotel Offer details, enter: RDP2 System Response
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Save offers To save the offers in the PNR, enter: RFA; ER System Response
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