Understanding seat allocations and the corresponding ameliaRES generated report
Step-by-step guide
The seat allocations that have been assigned to each and every flight in ameliaRES can be displayed and manipulated to get the best effect of revenue management for your airline.
Within this article, the definitions and manipulations will be discussed to give the user a better understanding of the process.
To begin, go to:
Operations → Seat 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 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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