24.06 Release Notes

New Features

API

  • Promo Codes and Vouchers Event Tracking: We've enhanced our system to generate events for promo codes and vouchers. Now, events are triggered in the following scenarios:

    • promo codes are added, updated, deleted or applied to a PNR

    • vouchers are added, updated, deleted or redeemed

  • Crew Member Management for Specific Flights: We've introduced new capabilities to manage crew members for specific flights via our API. You can now add/update/delete the crew members on a specific flight using POST/PUT/DELETE on the flightStatuses/{statusKey}/legs/{legKey}/crewMembers/ endpoint.

  • Enhanced User Sessions Endpoint: The userSessions endpoint now returns three additional values to provide better insight into the user's status concerning the airline’s password policy:

    • accountActionMessage: Provides messages related to required user actions.

    • daysUntilExpiry: Indicates the number of days remaining until the password expires.

    • isPasswordExpiryEnabled: Shows whether password expiry is enabled for the user.

    These enhancements offer a more comprehensive understanding of user sessions and help ensure compliance with the airline’s password policies.

DCS

  • Direct Voucher Printing from Check-in Screen: We've added the capability to print vouchers directly to a document printer from the check-in screen. This new feature streamlines the check-in process, making it quicker and more convenient to provide printed vouchers to passengers.

  • Enhanced Connections Report: The Connections Report, accessible from the check-in screen, has been updated to include passive segments. This enhancement provides a more comprehensive view of passenger connections, ensuring that all segments, including passive ones, are accounted for in the report.

DIRECT

  • InteliSys x PayPal: The ameliaRES PayPal integration is now live! This integration allows you to offer PayPal as a payment method for your customers, ensuring a seamless passenger checkout experience while complementing your existing payment solution. Additionally, the integration fully supports refund processing, providing even greater convenience and flexibility for your airline and its customers. Click here to learn more and register for PayPal today.

  • Nearby Airports Search: SOAR now supports searching for nearby airports. When two airports are close to each other, you can provide options for both when a search is made for either one. This feature offers your customers greater flexibility in choosing their travel routes and destinations. To enable this feature, please contact your Account Executive.

  • Email Address Update in Online Check-in: Passengers can now update the email address on their booking profile during online check-in. This feature ensures that they receive their boarding pass at the correct email address, enhancing convenience and improving communication.

GDS / Interline

  • Interline Round Trip Repricing and Rebooking: You can now reprice and rebook an entire interline round trip booking directly from ameliaRES, eliminating the need to rebook each segment individually. This improvement ensures more accurate pricing, streamlines the booking process, and reduces the potential for errors.

  • Enhanced Targeted PRLs: We have upgraded the functionality of targeted PRLs, allowing them to be configured for delivery to both email addresses and Type B addresses. This enhancement ensures greater flexibility and efficiency in distributing important passenger information.

  • SSM Flight Filtering: We now support filtering out certain flights from being sent in your SSM messages. This allows you to easily exclude certain flights/routes from being published to the GDS, but still keep them availble to be booked direct. Please contact us if you want to make use of this feature.

RES

  • Ancillary Flexible Pricing by Agency: Ancillary Flexible Pricing now enables you to specify which agencies a price will apply to. This enhancement allows you to set different prices for various agencies, such as OTAs, providing greater flexibility and customization in your pricing strategy.

  • Change Fee Waiver Expiration: You can now set the Change Fee Waiver to expire a specified number of hours before flight time. This means passengers will no longer be able to make free changes close to departure, providing better control over last-minute changes and ensuring smoother operations.

  • Enhanced User and Group Management: The Users screen now supports searching by Full Name or Logon Name and filtering by Agency and/or Group, making it easier to find specific users. Additionally, on the Groups screen, you can now search for users by Full Name or Logon Name when adding new users to groups, streamlining the user management process.

  • Copy Reservation Locator Button: The reservation screen now features a "Copy Res Locator" button. This button copies the reservation locator number to your clipboard, making it easy to paste into other programs for quick and efficient access.

  • Improved Ancillary City Pair Allocation: In the Ancillary City Pair allocation window, selecting a departure airport will now automatically update the arrival airport dropdown to display only valid options for the chosen destination. Additionally, the dropdowns have been enhanced to allow typing the airport code directly, providing a quicker and more efficient way to select airports.

  • Updated DOT T100 Segment Report: The DOT T100 Segment report has been updated to comply with the latest directives from the Department of Transportation (DOT). This ensures that your reports are accurate and up-to-date with current regulatory requirements.

  • Agency Booking Report Update: The Agency Booking report in ameliaRES desktop has been deprecated and removed. This report is now exclusively accessible through the web reports portal, ensuring a centralized and streamlined reporting experience.

Enhancements / Improvements

IASCASE / Issue #

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In anticipation of full support for Undefined genders, the Load Summary now has a section for Undefined weights and Standard Weights will allow weights to be set for Undefined genders.

37784 / AMELIA-26588

Child passenger seats were being canceled when GDS segments were canceled and rebooked.

37968/38782/39491 / AMELIA-27174

GDS messages failed to cancel a leg when there was not enough availability.

38560 / AMELIA-26860

Resolved an issue where the system incorrectly refunded all tickets in a GDS booking when only one ticket was meant to be refunded. This issue affected bookings with multiple ticket numbers.

38915/39006/39868 / AMELIA-26999

Fixed a bug that caused payment amounts to be incorrect on GDS bookings when the auto-refund feature was turned on.

39506 / AMELIA-27195

The .O/ element was not being generated for Interline BSM.

39781 / AMELIA-27265

When using flexible ancillary pricing, if you performed an edit route where the price of the ancillary changes, it would charge the keep the price of the original route instead updating to the new route’s price.

39896/40176/40235/40460/40589/40665 / AMELIA-27308

This update fixes the issue where GDS segments were combined without respecting the maximum connection time.

40084 / AMELIA-27497

Corrected an issue where AVS was erroneously sent for a cancelled flight leg located between to other flight legs.

40579 / AMELIA-27025

The system failed to apply new payments when the GDS provided a new ticket number after canceling or rebooking a segment. This caused the PNR to be put on hold and later canceled.

40692 / AMELIA-27608

When doing a POST reservation for two journeys with different tax configurations, the taxes on the selected seats would not be calculated properly causing the PNR to not balance.

40762/41555 / AMELIA-27598

Fixed an issue where infant tickets failed to apply causing the associated adult passenger to be excluded from the PNL.



DATABASE

Refer to the following for 24.06 DB Schema Changes.