I 92 Harmonize booking of ancillaries

I-92: Harmonize the Booking of Ancillaries

Description

In OSDM we have two ways of booking ancillaries, firstly, via passanger type and secondly via

Owner

• Odile Angeras (Amadeus)
• Clemens Gantert (DB)
• Patrick Heuguet (UIC)
• Roland Klapwik (Sqills)
• Angelo Farruggia (SBB)

Business Value

For developers

who need to buy ancillaries

the harmonization

is a benefits

that facilitates the implementation

unlike the current situation

our solution harmonizes the two worlds.

Business Outcomes

The measurable benefits that the business can anticipate if the epic hypothesis is proven to be correct.

Less implementation and testing efforts needed.

Leading Indicators

The early measures that will help predict the business outcome hypothesis. For more on this topic, see the Innovation Accounting advanced topic article.

Implementations are based on the harmonized approach.

Nonfunctional Requirements

The reservation flow of the underlying H/H system needs to be supported.

Specification Effort

MIDDLE

Initial Analysis

Amadeus Vision

• Ancillaries in OSDM – Amadeus vision

Approach via Passenger Type

• see Passenger Type

Approach via Product Type

• todo

Approach of the Airline World

• List of Service SSRs

Scenarios

• Scenario 1 Passenger 1 Bike

  Existing Mode

  • 1 PassengerType Adult + 1 PassengerType Bike

  New Mode

  • 1 PassengerType Adult + 1 Ancillary Product of type Bike

• Scenario 1 Bike

  Existing Mode

  • 1 PassengerType Bike

  New Mode

  • 1 PassengerType Adult + 1 Ancillary Product of type Bike Question who owns the Bike?

• Scenario Bike is distance Bike

• Topics to Solve

  1. How to request?
     • Define Passengers: PERSON, PERSON_WITH_WHEELCHAIR
     • Map Non Passenger Types to Product Categories (see Airline Taxonomy)
     • Add possibility to request more than one ancillary, needs improvement on OfferSearchCriteria
     • Cluster products --> improve products to have this meta information (add ProductTag,...)
  2. How does the offer look like?
     • BIKE/DOG/PET/PRAM: Mandatory Ancillary with optional/required reservation
     • MEAL/...: Ancillary only
     • WHEELCHAIR: modelling needed
  3. How does the booking look like?
     • On open systems we can have two bookings.