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The government of Quebec has implemented a new program that will take effect on Feb 3, 2025. Instead of all-in fares of $250 or $500, the new program will now discount the regular fares by X percentage depending on the Origin/Destination Airport.

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Here’s the grid we received from the government. Based on this grid, the passenger will receive a percentage discount if their origin or destination is one of these airports. Our understanding is that if the Origin origin and Destination has destination have two of these airports, the airport with the lowest discount applies. For example, YBX has a an 85% discount and YZV has a 50% discount. If you operate a route YBX-YZV, the 50% discount applies since its it is the highest discount.

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Since the program mentions certain city pair charges/taxes are applicable to the program (such as Fuel Surcharge), Intelisys recommends to either bundle bundling these charges into the Fare or to add adding these charges as a percentage of the Fare instead of fix fixed values. If for example, you have a fuel surcharge of $50, the promo code will not be able to discount this charge. However, if the Fuel Surcharge is 20% of the Fare, the Fuel Surcharge will be discounted by the same amount as the Fare.

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The solution requires the airline to generate promo codes for each discount. For example, routes that have a 50% discount should have a promo code for that discount. In my example, I created the promo codes as PAAR50 for 50% and PAAR85 for 85% discount. Here are the fields you should really be paying attention to.

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For sale date, travel date: You could create these promo codes today and have the them for sale date start on Feb 3. This way, you do not need to wait to create all of this on Feb 3.

City Pairs: Its It is up to the airline to assign the promo code to only the applicable city pairs. Be very restrictive.

Fare Classes: Assign the promo codes to only the fare classes you make available to the public and not assign them to company fares for example.

Agencies: In my example, I will only apply the promo code to the IBE agency for the public users and the call center so they can apply the promo code. This is up to the airline to which agency they want to apply these promo codes.

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in my example, we applied the following changes to the widget. This gives the airline complete control for of the automated promo code application and can be used outside the PAAR program as well. If the government of Quebec makes changes, the solution is very flexible and the control is within the airline to make any changes.

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If you want to provide this program to Travel Agencies or Call Center, we can’t automatically apply a promo code the way we do for public users since the functionality only exists within the booking widget. We recommend to provide providing them with a grid of applicable city pairs and the promo codes they can use. And don’t forget to give those agencies access to the promo codes. You can provide them with something like this:

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