• Apply mileage system pricing skills to international routings
• Read and interpret GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
• Define common fare construction terms and abbreviations
• Identify and price different journey types (including one-way, round/circle trip, Round-the-World and mixed class journeys
• Use the IATA Fare Formula to correctly price a journey
• Apply global indicators to routings
• Assess and apply air fare taxes
• Read, interpret and apply fare rules
• Converting between different currencies and NUCs
• Apply all minimum-fare rule checks in pricing itineraries
• Use side trips
• Add a manual fare to a GDS booking file
• Know how to use GDS to issue tickets for manually-priced reservations
• Apply the Lowest Combination Factor to quote the most competitive air fare
• Apply rule exceptions
• Construct and read a linear fare construction
• Decode and interpret each field of an e-ticket
• Issue electronic tickets

• Entry-level students
• Travel consultants
• Personnel of airlines, tour operators and consolidators
• Internet travel suppliers

• Study one of these three GDS systems: Amadeus, Galileo or Sabre  
• Introduction to air fares, analysing itineraries and retrieving fares from a GDS
• Introduction to the mileage system
• Practice pricing one way and circle trips
• Limitations on indirect travel, side trips and surface sectors
• Backhauls, circle trips, journeys in different classes of service and alternative fare break points
• Lowest combinations, round-the-world journeys, sales indicators and minimum checks
• Currency conversion, taxes and practice ticketing

IMPORTANT:

This course is available in Internet-based or CD-ROM versions. Both contain identical course content, and both are supported by a course Workbook. 

• If you purchase the Internet-based version, you will receive the course Workbook as a pdf file download to the e-mail address you include on your enrolment form.  No shipping fees apply.  
• If you purchase the CD-ROM version, you will receive a printed course Workbook along with your CD-ROM.  Shipping fees must be included with your payment.   

This course requires the following minimum system requirements: Windows 95, Internet Explorer 5.5, 16MB memory.

Note:
Customers in Europe may contact training.europe@iata.org for information.