Seat Allocations

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-off changes" on a certain flights, where the Seat Allocation is used for more wider scope changes.

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 route-driven report, rather than 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 is the column labeled GDS. This column refers back to the first screen, where the term Closed is used to answer the question "Is the Booking Code Closed?" and the answer is either N - No or Y - Yes.