Hierarchy
EA-HRGXX (Software Component) Sub component EA-HRGXX of EA-HR⤷
FI-TV-COS (Application Component) Travel Expenses⤷
PTRA_ADDON (Package) Travel Management Add-On
IMG Activity
| ID | OFTP_PR_003_08 | Specify Settings for Lowest Fare Search (Fare-Driven Availability Query) |
| Transaction Code | S_PH9_46000255 | Flight Availability Settings |
| Created on | 19990506 | |
| Customizing Attributes | OFTP_PR_003_08 | Specify Settings for Lowest Fare Search (Fare-Driven Availability Query) |
| Customizing Activity | OFTP_PR_003_08 | Specify Settings for Lowest Fare Search (Fare-Driven Availability Query) |
Document
| Document Class | SIMG | Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs. |
| Document Name | OFTP_PR_003_08 |
Fare-Driven Availability Query
The fare-driven availability query for flights enables users to search in the reservation system for lowest-priced flight connections to the requested destination. If a low-cost carrier consolidator system is connected, you can also search for Internet offers. Such offers are added to the connections found from a global reservation system.
The fare-driven query can be started in the Travel Planning transactions with the Best-Price Flight pushbutton. You can configure this query method in this Customizing activity.
You can activate or deactivate the fare-driven availability query for flights for each user group in the activity Define Price and Availability Strategies.
Settings
You make the settings for the fare-driven availability query based on the travel profile and the validity period.
You specify here whether the search for best-priced flight connections should:
- Include only certain providers
- Not include certain providers
- Include only direct flights
You can make further restrictions by specifying whether certain providers should or should not be included:
- For a certain flight segment
- With a certain flight class
If you do not specify a provider but do specify a flight segment and a flight class as selection criteria, those restrictions apply to all providers defined in the system.
Note
For fare-driven availability queries in the reservation system, you can only specify different selection criteria for a maximum of three providers.
Note
Not all options may be available with availability queries in a low-cost carrier consolidator system. For example, low-cost carriers do not normally offer all flight cabin classes.
Example
If you have specified as filter criteria Provider: AF, Geographical origin: Paris, and Geographical destination: Hamburg, and select Consider exclusively as the selection criteria, fare-driven availability queries display only connections from Air France in the list of cheapest flights.
If you have specified as filter criteria Provider: AF, Geographical origin: Paris, and Geographical destination: Hamburg, and select Exclude as the selection criteria, fare-driven availability queries display no connections from Air France.
If you have specified as filter criteria Geographical origin: Paris and Geographical destination: Hamburg, and select Direct flights only as the selection criteria, fare-driven availability queries display only non-stop flights even if stopover flights have cheaper rates. If no direct flights are available for a route, the system issues an error message in a fare-driven query.
Requirements
- You have defined travel profiles for SAP Travel Planning.
- The airlines available in the reservation system are correctly defined in the standard system. You can define additional airlines in the activity Define Airlines.
- You have defined geographical types and areas in the activity Geographical Situation.
Standard settings
Recommendation
Activities
- Choose New Entries.
- Enter the Travel Profile to which you want the restrictions to apply.
- Specify a time period for the restrictions.
- Specify the following:
- Provider code
- Geographical origin and destination (optional)
- Flight cabin class (optional)
- Specify whether the system should include or exclude the selection criteria (selection options Consider exclusively or Exclude).
- Specify whether other classes should also be included in the query.
If you select Consider exclusively, it is advisable to activate this field to increase the hit rate for best-priced flight connections.
- Specify whether restricted flight classes should be included. (optional)
Further notes
You can use this Customizing activity to force the use of low-cost carriers for certain routes.
For example, if you want to exclude connections from a global reservation system for a particular route and allow only a certain low cost carrier (from a low cost carrier consolidator system), specify that carrier here for exclusive use.
Business Attributes
| ASAP Roadmap ID | 202 | Establish Company Structure |
| Mandatory / Optional | 3 | Nonrequired activity |
| Critical / Non-Critical | 1 | Critical |
| Country-Dependency | A | Valid for all countries |
Assigned Application Components
| Documentation Object Class | Documentation Object Name | Current line number | Application Component | Application Component Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIMG | OFTP_PR_003_08 | 0 | AHR0000301 | Travel Planning |
Maintenance Objects
| Maintenance object type | C | Customizing Object |
| Assigned objects | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customizing Object | Object Type | Transaction Code | Sub-object | Do not Summarize | Skip Subset Dialog Box | Description for multiple selections |
| V_TA20PVP | V - View | SM30 | 0000000000 | Specify Settings for Lowest Fare Search (Fare-Driven Availability Query) |
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19990526 |
| SAP Release Created in |
