24.08 Release Notes

New Features

API

  • Flight Status Included in Queue Items: The GET queues/{key}/items endpoint in the RESTv1 API has been enhanced to include the flight status of the leg affected by the queue item. This improvement provides users with more detailed information, enhancing operational insights and decision-making capabilities.

  • Additional Properties in Company Transactions Report: The GET reports/companyTransactions endpoint has been enhanced to include additional properties in its response. These additions provide more comprehensive transaction details, improving clarity and facilitating better financial tracking and analysis. The new properties are:

    • paymentUser

    • paymentMethodIdentifier

    • paymentMethodDescription

    • balance

DCS

  • Resizable Load Summary Report Screen: The Load Summary report screen has been updated to support resizing, accommodating different screen resolutions for improved user experience and flexibility.

  • Interactive Crew APIS: The Crew APIS now supports countries that require the interactive submission of crew data. This enhancement ensures compliance with international regulations and improves the efficiency of data submission processes.

GDS / Interline

  • Support for Processing Inbound MVT Messages via Direct MQ Without TTY Header: ameliaRES now supports the processing of MVT messages via Direct MQ without requiring a TTY header. This enhancement facilitates smoother integration with external systems through direct connections, eliminating the need for the traditional telex network.

  • Automatic Ticket Status Update for Cancelled Flights: The system now automatically sends a TKTREQ to change the status of tickets from 'B/C' to 'O' when a flight is cancelled with passengers still onboard. Previously, this update occurred only when passengers were deplaned and unchecked. This enhancement streamlines the cancellation process and aligns with standard procedures for managing passengers during flight cancellations.

  • Number of Stops Included in PAORES (Flight Availability) Messages: PAORES messages now include the number of stops for flights. This enhancement provides the receiving system with more detailed information, clearly indicating whether a flight is non-stop or has multiple stops, thereby improving flight availability insights.

  • Improved Handling of GDS PNR Duplicates and PDM Processing: The algorithm has been enhanced to better handle messages with PDM headers. This improvement significantly increases the success rate of bookings that previously failed due to delays with Type A messages, ensuring smoother and more efficient processing of GDS PNR duplicates and PDM messages.

OPS

  • Crew Lite: Enhanced Flight Crew Members Screen Sorting: The Flight Crew Members screen in Crew Lite now supports three-column sorting. Your selected sort values will be saved to your amelia preferences, ensuring a more personalized and efficient user experience.

RES

  • Ancillary Availability by Agency: Ancillary Flexible Pricing now allows you to specify if an ancillary is available for purchase by specific agencies. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and customization in your pricing strategy by enabling you to set availability for various agencies, including OTAs.

  • Modification Fees in Penalty Fee Feature: The Penalties feature in Inventory Setup now allows you to configure modification fees. You can specify the time frame after booking and before flight departure when these fees will apply, providing greater control over fee management.

  • Blacklist Management Interface: A new interface is now available for managing your internal passenger blacklist. This interface allows you to quickly view, add, or remove passengers from the blacklist. It includes name search parameters to help you efficiently locate specific passengers, streamlining the blacklist management process.

  • Display SSR on Reservation Screen: The passenger grid on the main reservation screen now includes an SSR column, displaying all assigned passenger requests. This enhancement enables call center agents to quickly review and manage special service requests, improving efficiency and customer service.

  • Configurable Itinerary Display Preferences on Alert Screen: The Alert screen now allows you to configure the type of itinerary sent during notifications. You can customize the itinerary type and choose whether to include the logo and terms and conditions, providing greater flexibility in managing your notifications.

  • IATA ROE Settings in Currency Management: When adding a new currency, the system now automatically prompts you to add the exchange rate. This enhancement eliminates the need to manually remember to add the exchange rate, streamlining the currency management process.

  • Passenger Segments Count in Agency Bookings: The Agency Bookings web report now includes a new Pax Seg column, displaying the number of passenger segments traveled on the returned journey. This addition provides a clearer overview of travel details for each booking.

  • Updated Agency Payment Report: The Agency Payment web report now features a new Taken By column, which displays the username of the amelia user who processed the payment. This addition enhances transparency and tracking of payment transactions.

  • Enhanced Used Voucher Report: New Reason Column: The Used Voucher web report now includes a "Reason" column, displaying the reason provided during voucher usage. This enhancement offers greater insight into voucher utilization.=

SOAR

  • Currency Restriction by Route Type in SOAR app: You can now restrict currency selection in SOAR based on the route type of the selected city pairs. This feature ensures that only appropriate currencies are available for each specific route.

  • One-Click Ancillary Purchases for All Flights and Passengers: The ancillary purchase screen now includes toggles that allow you to apply ancillary services to all passengers and/or all flights with a single click. This enhancement streamlines the purchasing process, saving time and effort.

  • Restrict Mixed Passenger Types (PTC) in SOAR: SOAR now allows you to configure restrictions that prevent certain passenger types (PTC), such as seniors and students, from traveling together on the same PNR. This feature ensures compliance with travel policies and enhances booking accuracy.

  • Detailed Charge Visibility Post-Cancellation in SOAR: In the SOAR agent site and MMB, the reservation details screen now displays a full charge breakdown even after a PNR has been cancelled. This includes cancelled journeys with applicable charges, ensuring agents have comprehensive visibility of all costs.

  • Restricted Booking Cancellation Window in SOAR Agent Site: Your airline can now configure a time limit, restricting agencies from cancelling reservations beyond the first 48 hours after booking. This feature ensures better control and management of booking cancellations.

  • Autopopulate Agent Contact Information in SOAR Agent Site: To enhance convenience and user experience, the SOAR Agent Site now automatically populates the agency's email and phone number into the Primary Booking Contact field when creating a reservation. This streamlines the booking process for agents.

  • PO Number Included in Agency Reports: The Company Payments report in the SOAR Agent Site now features a new column displaying the PO Number associated with each payment. This enhancement provides better tracking and reference for agency transactions.

  • Search Flight and Date to Retrieve Passenger List: The Agent Site now features an enhanced "Search Reservation" menu, allowing users to search for flights departing on a specific date. This new capability enables agents to retrieve passenger lists for those flights and view detailed reservation information.

TICKETS

  • Additional Coupon Status for Manual Updates: The Manual Coupon Status Update Box in ameliaRES now supports the "S - Suspend" status. This status will be automatically pushed to the ETDB, providing more comprehensive management of coupon statuses.

Enhancements / Improvements

IASCASE / Issue #

Description

IASCASE / Issue #

Description

15762/16446 / AMELIA-10826

Corrected an issue where the origin and destination were sometimes missing from the connecting point in the manifest. This was caused by missing seat assignments or differing RBDs in the bookings.

36902/37389/41282 / AMELIA-26286

When applying allocation templates that changed allocations on more than 10 booking codes, not all changes would get added to the audit.

37973/40146 / AMELIA-26672

When the aircraft model of a flight was updated from an APIS secure model (requires APIS clearance) to a non-secure model, there could be issues checking in the passengers on the new model.

39734 / AMELIA-27245

In cases where there is a cancelled passive leg in the middle of a journey, the baggage short check feature would not show all available airports.

41351/42170 / AMELIA-27980

The sequence number from the interline partner in the IATCI message was incorrectly used instead of the amelia sequence number, leading to boarding issues.

41371 / AMELIA-27737

Ticket coupons were occasionally placed in the incorrect order. This issue has been resolved to ensure that coupons are now sorted correctly.

41505/41862/42352 / AMELIA-27771

Resolved an issue where amelia tickets would fail to exchange when an interline segment was added to the booking.

41454 / AMELIA-27896

The dates in the Agency Pax Segments Performance Report will now use the system specified date format.

41764/41783/41784/42025 / AMELIA-27875

Resolved an issue with duplicate e-tickets in amelia, ensuring each ticket is unique and properly processed.

41766 / AMELIA-28006

The "Edit Partner Route" popup was erroneously prompted even when there was no interline segment present.

42133 / AMELIA-27965

On a PNR with multiple passengers, if the reservation owner was cancelled, the remaining passengers would not show on the emailed itinerary when choosing the option “Include all passenger on ine itinerary”.

42508 / AMELIA-28150

SSR DOCS were not processed when the title was missing. The system now handles such cases correctly.

DATABASE

Refer to the following for 24.08 DB Schema Changes.