Reference no: EM13349778
QUESTION 1:
(a). Anyone who has bought an airline ticket will know it is possible to pay anyone of a large number of dissimilar prices to fly a given route
• Briefly describe the factors causing fares to vary
(b) Normal fares are basic public fares published by all airlines. They are the highest fares published for travel in all classes of the aircraft: First, Business and Economy classes and have little boundaries
• What are the attributes of published normal fares?
(c) Various categories of rebates are permitted on normal fares
• What is the IATA code for the subsequent types of passengers: Child, Infant, Student, Young Passengers, and Senior Citizen?
What is the IATA code for the subsequent special fares?
• Excursion, Purchase Excursion, Advance Purchase Excursion, Instant Purchase Excursion, Super Apex.
(d) Extraordinary fares are the cheapest fares, and have a lot of restrictions
• What are the most widespread restrictions found on Excursion Fares?
(e) When a group is travelling the published fare may be ignored. What is the meaning of the subsequent terms?
• Affinity Group
• Common Interest
• Incentive Group
• Non Affinity group
QUESTION 2:
You are a Travel Consultant in an IATA Travel Agency in Rio de Janeiro. A customer Mr. T. Delgado has made the following booking in
economy rank (class):
Rio de Janeiro New York RG 412/ 10 JUL Departure 17.30
New York London BA 920/ 14 JUL Departure 17.30
London Algiers AH 056/ 15 JUL Departure. 10.30
Algiers London BA 241/ 27 JUL Departure 0940
London Athens OK 112/ 09 AUG Departure 14.50
Athens Karachi PK 460/22 AUG Departure 11.00
Karachi Mumbai AI Date unknown
Mumbai Calcutta IC Date unknown
The TPM is as follows after: RIO NYC 4816 NYC LON 3458 LON ALG 1041 LON ATH 1494 ATH KHI 2687 KHI BOM 544 BOM CCU 1035.
Use only tariffs as per Airline Passenger Tariff extracts manual
• Using the IATA methods, compute the cost of the trip, local selling fare.