is accessed through the SmartFares home page. Login to Air Tickets www.airtickets.co.nz and select SmartFares Select Shopping tab 1
Choose your journey type: Clue Card Multi destination allows you to enter multiple destinations up to 16 segments including surface segments. (Maximum recommended sectors: 5) You can add more destinations or delete a destination Enter the Mandatory fields: From To Depart Optional Fields (to refine your search): Airline code to search flights for a specific carrier. Amend booking (cabin) Class to match customer s choice. Departure Time to search flights departing at a certain time only. Select Single Carrier to display only single carrier fares. Select Direct Flights? if customer preference is non-stop flights. Select Calendar +3/-3 to get a view of fares available 3 days before and after your selected departure and return dates. Refer to page 9. Show Nett to view your nett level. Select Show Wholesale fares for wholesale fares to be included in the results. The Cabin defaults to Economy, click the drop-down arrow to change the cabin type. NOTE: Calendar +3/-3 is currently only available to Sabre agents. 2
If your agency has a private fare available for ticketing through AirTickets then you can shop for these fares too. Click in the Sub-Customer for Special Pricing field and a list of available fares will display to select. If your agency has multiple pcc s you can specify where to shop in the Booking Source field. Click on Passenger and enter details. Example 3
The Shopping results page will show. Fares are defaulted to the gross level, select the dropdown list to change the sorting. - Plating carrier - Total gross fare including (approximate) taxes - Routing - Nett level (if selected previously) - Number of options available on the outbound and inbound journey The Nett level can be hidden or shown from the results page by select Hide or Show Filtering options: Time & Duration use the slider to change the results. 4
Price & Flight Options slider can be used for price, select a specific booking class OR click direct for direct flight results. Airlines, Airports & Countries tick the airlines/airports/countries to view those results. Click the icon to view all details of a particular fare and select preferred flights. 5
Fare Breakdown Click to view Fare and Taxes for each passenger NOTE: Hover over the Tax box to see tax breakdown. 6
Fare Conditions Click to view Fare Rules Clue Card Create NYOP PDF allows you to create and generate your own itinerary costing. You can add your nominated selling price. 7
NOTE: NYOP PDF can be left blank if you do not wish to show a price! Itinerary Costing example: Booking classes can be shown or hidden. Contact Air Tickets if you wish to change your default setting. 8
Calendar +3/-3 shopping allows you to view fares available 3 days either side of the departure and return dates selected. When calendar is selected on the search page the shopping results will display with the calendar view. The lowest fare is indicated by To select a fare click on the price. The fare will then be highlighted. More fare details are given below the calendar display. 9
Once a fare is selected click Shop to see results for fares on that selected day. NOTE: Calendar +3/-3 is currently only available to Sabre agents. 10