Travel Agency Basic Functionality Course - Amadeus

1 Training Module Edition Travel Agency Basic Functionality Course Copyright Amadeus Development Company All right Reserved Edition Published & Printed by: Amadeus Pakistan 1st Floor, Service Ext. Club Building Mereweather Road Karachi Fax + 9221 5674682. Table of Contents Welcome .. 1. About Amadeus .. 2. Where is Amadeus Located .. 3. Course Objectives 4. Introduction to the Amadeus Selling Platform Vista 5. Where Do I Go for Help ? .. 6. What's This? .. 6. How .. 6. Introduction to Amadeus Vista .. 7. Signing In .. 8. Signing-In .. 9. Signing Out .. 9. Working with the Graphic Page .. 11. Graphic Page Tabs.

2 12. Frequently Used Icons .. 12. Making a Reservation .. 12. Create a PNR from a Profile .. 13. Making an Air Booking .. 14. Making a Meal Request .. 16. Reserving a Hotel .. 17. Pricing the Itinerary .. 19. Printing the Itinerary and Ticket .. 20. Saving the PNR .. 21. Customizing the Graphic Page .. 22. The Command Page.. 23. Working with the Command Page .. 24. Speed Mode .. 25. Customizing the Command .. 27. Amadeus Vista Smart Keys .. 27. Public Smart Keys .. 28. Creating Smart Keys .. 29. Testing a Smart Keys .. 31. Amadeus Basic Functionality Course .. 33. Signing In and Signing Out . 34. Practice Training.

3 35. Amadeus Work Areas .. 36. Displaying the Mini-Office Profile .. 38. Amadeus Information Pages .. 39. Amadeus Information System (AIS) .. 40. AIS Scrolling Commands .. 41. Online Help System .. 42. Online Help Scrolling Commands .. 43. Encoding and Decoding .. 45. Encoding City and Airport Names .. 46. Decoding City and Airport Codes .. 47. Encoding and Decoding Countries .. 47. Decoding States and Provinces .. 48. Encoding and Decoding .. 48. Encoding and Decoding Equipment . 48. Encoding and Decoding Car .. 49. -i- Encoding and Decoding Hotel .. 49. Minimum Connecting Time .. 49. Date and Time Calculations.

4 50. Amadeus Air .. 51. Availability Displays.. 52. Access Indicators .. 55. Availability Options .. 56. Availability Scrolling Commands .. 57. Dual-City Pair .. 57. Direct Access .. 59. Schedule Display .. 61. Timetable Display .. 62. Flight Information .. 64. Timatic .. 68. PNR .. 71. Itinerary Elements .. 72. Short Sell .. 72. Long Sell .. 72. Waitlist Segment .. 73. Open Segment .. 73. Arrival Unknown Segment .. 74. Ghost Segment .. 75. Rearranging Segments .. 75. Name Element .. 76. Telephone Contact Element .. 77. Ticketing Arrangement Elements .. 78. Received from Elements .. 79. End Transaction .. 79.

5 Ignore Transaction .. 80. Combining PNR Elements .. 80. Retrieving a PNR .. 82. Retrieval within a PNR .. 82. Search by Flight .. 83. Other / Optional PNR Elements .. 84. Other Service Information .. 84. Remarks Elements .. 85. General Remark .. 85. Confidential Remark .. 85. Itinerary Remark .. 86. Special Service Request .. 86. Meal Request .. 87. Special Message .. 87. Advance Seat .. 88. Seat Wish .. 88. Seat Request .. 89. Seat Maps .. 90. Frequent Flyer .. 91. Passport Information .. 92. APIS New SSR DOCS/DOCO/DOCA .. 92. Manual ticket Number .. 94. Address Elements .. 95. Option Element .. 95. Modifying a PNR.

6 98. Canceling PNR Elements .. 99. Modifying PNR Elements .. 100. Updating a Name .. 101. Rebooking a Segment .. 102. Splitting a PNR .. 103. -ii- PNR History .. 104. History Options .. 105. History Codes .. 106. Amadeus Advance Functionality .. 109. Unaccompanied Minor .. 110. Non-Homogeneous PNR .. 110. Copying a PNR .. 111. Creating a Group PNR .. 111. Non Homogeneous Condition .. 112. Splitting Names in a Group PNR .. 113. Printing an Itinerary .. 114. Website of NMC Pakistan .. 114. Check my Trip .. 114. Avoid multiple entries in single EOT .. 115. Past Date PNR Retrieval .. 115. Claiming a PNR consists of two steps.

7 115. Responsible Office .. 115. Married Segment .. 116. PNR Security .. 116. Amadeus Queues .. 117. Queues .. 118. Date Ranges .. 120. Queue Handling .. 120. Queue Count Entries .. 120. Queue Start Entries .. 121. Queue Processing Entries .. 121. Queue Print Entries .. 122. Queue Placement .. 122. Sending a Queue Message .. 123. Amadeus Fare Quote and Informative Pricing .. 125. Help .. 126. Fare Quote Display .. 126. Fare Quote Display Option .. 127. Requesting a Fare Type .. 128. Fare Quote Notes .. 129. Fare Quote Routing .. 129. Currency Conversion .. 130. IATA Rates of Exchange .. 130. Mileage Calculation.

8 131. Excess Baggage Charges .. 132. Informative Pricing .. 132. Pricing an Itinerary .. 132. Adding Options .. 134. Itinerary Pricing .. 135. Pricing Follow-up transactions .. 135. Pricing an Itinerary and creating a TST .. 135. Pricing Options .. 137. Pricing by fare basis .. 138. Selecting a fare and creating a TST .. 139. Best Buy .. 139. Automatic Pricing and Rebooking 139. Pricing and Manual Rebooking .. 140. Displaying the Lowest Possible Fare .. 141. Amadeus Email .. 143. Setting up your terminal .. 144. Sending an Email with free flow text message .. 144. -iii- Specifying Email title .. 144. Email Itinerary.

9 144. Email Contact Element . 144. Sending Amadeus display .. 144. Requesting a detailed display .. 145. Sending appended documents .. 145. Displaying a particular message .. 145. Deleting a Particular message .. 145. Adding a reply to address .. 145. Display a reply to address .. 145. Delete a reply to address .. 145. Message Log .. 146. Amadeus Email Directory .. 146. Printing a message .. 146. Amadeus Hotel.. 147. Hotel .. 148. Encoding and Decoding a Hotel Chain .. 148. Amadeus Information Pages .. 148. Requesting Help .. 148. Hotel List display .. 148. Hotel availability and rates display .. 149. Multi-Company Availability and Rates Display.

10 150. Room-Type Codes 152. Bed-Type Codes . 153. Rate-Type Codes . 153. Single-Property Display .. 153. Hotel availability option codes .. 155. Availability and Rates from a PNR 157. Hotel features display .. 157. Hotel terms display .. 157. Hotel Pricing and Features Display .. 157. Hotel rate change display .. 158. Hotel sell .. 158. Hotel sell option codes .. 159. Modifying a hotel element .. 161. Amadeus Car .. 163. Car .. 164. Encoding and Decoding a Car Company.. 164. Amadeus Information Pages .. 164. Requesting Help .. 165. Car Location List Display 165. Car availability and Rates Display 167. Multi-Company Display.