Amadeus Fares and Pricing Solution

Journey, Class, Time, Day, Event: So Many Different Fares. How do you stay ahead?

No two journeys are the same. That means no two fares are the same. The Amadeus Fares and Pricing Solution enables you to price and manage your fares on a daily basis, responding to market conditions and driving marketing campaigns. That’s how you stay ahead.

Step One: Straightforward fare structure

The Amadeus Fares and Pricing Solution supports a Basic Fare structure

based on four types: market, distance, zone and event. The Basic

Fare is the foundation of every journey. You can then apply Pricing

Rules that take into account your restrictions and travel conditions to

create the appropriate price for your customer. Basic Fare updates are

automatically applied in real time, ensuring immediate, maximum

revenue generation.

Step Two: Sophisticated pricing rules

Pricing Rules take Basic Fares to the highest level of flexibility.

A unique fare basis code identifies each rule. Rules can be based on

any itinerary criteria including seasonality, advance purchase, blackout

periods, day of week, time of day, stop over, discount code, travel trade

organisation, one way/round trip, train, carrier, station, class and

passenger type. Updates to pricing rules create new rule instances that

allow modifications to be easily made and tested without affecting

current live instances. The Amadeus Fares and Pricing Solution allows

for both public and private rules, allowing you to control which Pricing

Rules are available to travel trade organisations and which can be

viewed by all users.

Step Three: Easy to integrate and always in use

Like all Amadeus Solutions, our Fare and Pricing Solution seamlessly

integrates with the Amadeus Rail IT Product Suite and can also

interface easily with other ticketing systems that have a standard API

through a web service, shared memory or file based FTP. We know your

system needs to be constantly up and running so we’ve ensured that

you can test fare or pricing rule changes before going live, without

disrupting sales. Once it’s live, your new rule will apply automatically

to all bookings made. OPS staff can easily update fares or pricing rules

in a live environment while retaining all historical fares, allowing you

to prepare in advance short term seasonal or event based changes and

change Pricing Rules whenever you want.

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Amadeus brings easy to use, effective IT and software to the world’s

leading travel service providers. We develop new solutions to help

our clients reduce distribution and operation costs, increase revenue

through new and improved channels and upgrade customer service.

Increased productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction are your

goals, so they’re our goals too. Amadeus supports you all the way.

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Price and manage your fares on a daily basis.

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Contact the Amadeus Rail team or visit our website to find out more.

E-mail: rail@amadeus.comwww.amadeus.com/railwaycompanies

Amadeus Fares and Pricing Solution Benefits at a Glance

Basic Fares > Supports four fare types: market (point to point), distance based, zone based and event based. Any combination of these fare types may be used.

Pricing Rules > Allows maximum flexibility. Restrictions can be based on seasonality, advance purchase, blackout periods, day of week, time of day, discount code, travel trade organisation, one way/round trip, rounding, train, carrier, station, booking class, and passenger type. A fare basis code uniquely identifies each pricing rule.

Instances Changes > Once a fare or rule update is initiated, a new basic fare or pricing rule instance is created. All the basic fares and pricing rules from the previous instance are copied to this new instance, allowing modifications to be made easily and tested without affecting current live or historical instances.

Test Releases > Allows fare or pricing rule changes to be tested against production data before going live. Once testing is complete, the live release will then apply to all new bookings created. Fares and pricing rules can be easily updated in a live environment while retaining all historical fares used, allowing you to change fares and prices when you want.

Future Fare and Rule Changes for Events and Campaigns > Fares and prices can be built in advance for future date ranges and sent live for seasonal campaigns.

Public and Private Rules > Allows defined public and private rules. Private rules are restricted to specific travel trade organisations while public rules are available to all users.