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Understanding seat allocations and the corresponding ameliaRES generated report

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To begin, go to:

 Operations → Seat Allocations

Seat Allocations are used for more wider scope changes (meaning templates, rolling allocations). 

Select the From and To dates; then use the drop down window to select your flight; Click on Look Up.

 The following will be displayed:

The portion of this screen that holds the information we require is the lower of the 3 quadrants on the right side of the page

The definitions for this screen are:

COS - Class of Service

BC - Booking Code

Seats - The number of seats allocated to the booking code

Avail - The number of seats that are currently available

Sold - The number of seats sold (Seats - Sold = Avail)

Closed - This is a bit of a double negative. The question asked is: Is this BC closed for sale? The answer is N = No

Rank - Ranking or Nesting for yield management

Parent - The parent fare code, also for nesting and yield management

 

This is the area where it is possible for the airline to increase or decrease the number of seats in any given booking code. The airline can then "roll" the changes to the rest of the flights in a given time period

 

The Allocation Manager is actually for making "one of changes" on a certain flights, where the Seat Allocation is used for more wider scope changes (meaning templates, rolling allocations).

A report has been designed that can be displayed on your screen and can also be printed.

To access this report go to:

Operations → Allocation Manager

 The following will be displayed:

This is a by route driven report instead of a flight based report. To access the information, select your From and To dates. Move over the Booking Codes that you require to view, or you can move over everything at once. (Highlight the code and then click on the single arrow. Click the double arrow and everything will be moved over.)

Next, select the Departure Airports, Arrival Airports. Move then over one by one or move them all over at once. ((Highlight the airport(s) and then click on the single arrow. Click the double arrow and everything will be moved over.)+

Finally, click on Generate.

The following report will display on your screen:

The definitions for this screen are:

Date - Date of the flight

Flight # - Flight number

City Pair - The "from" and "to" airports

Days - Days from the current date

Capacity - number of seats on the aircraft

BC - Booking code

COS - Class of Service

BC Confirmed - number of seats CONFIRMED in the specific booking code

BC Available - number of seats AVAILABLE in the specific booking code

BC Status - The actual status of the booking code. Either OPEN or CLOSED

COS Allocated - Number of seats ALLOCATED under the specific Class of Service

COS Available - Number of seats AVAILABLE under the specific Class of Service

Waitlisted - Number of seats that are WAITLISTED in the specific booking code


To put this report into a printed form, you would click on the Print and the report will be printed as shown below. There are a few differences in the labeling of this report.

The most apparent labelled GDS. This column refers back to the first screen where term Closed is used referring to the question "Is the Booking Code Closed?" and the answer is either N - No or Y - Yes



 

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