Connection to Low Cost Carrier Reservation Systems 

Use

You can connect external booking systems for low cost carriers (LCC) and web fare offers from the Internet to the Travel Planning component via SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI).

Travel Planning displays LCC and web fare offers as part of the fare-driven flight availability list, together with offers from global reservation systems (GDS).

The user interface displays the flights in a uniform layout. Users do not need to go to external Web sites in order to book.

Prerequisites

To integrate an LCC reservation system into Travel Planning, you need to have set up a scenario for the LCC content partner in the XI Integration Server.

You make the following settings in Customizing for Travel Planning:

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       1.      You define the LCC reservation system based on the LCC content partner connected to the XI Integration Server.

To do this, you go to Customizing for Travel Planning and choose Master Data ® Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning ® External Reservation Systems ® Define Reservation Systems.

       2.      You assign the LCC reservation system connected to XI to the groupings for access to external reservation systems.

To do this, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Master Data ® Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning ® Access to External Reservation Systems ® Access Parameters for External Reservation Systems ® Access Parameters for Other Reservation Systems ® Define Use of XI Interfaces for Categories.

       3.      You update the your travel policy to include LCC connections.

To do this, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Process Control ® Dialog and Planning Control ® Travel Planning Control  ® Define Behavior for Price and Availability Queries.

Pay special attention to the field help for Fare-driven Availability (Price-cont. availab.). You make further settings depending on your setting for fare-driven availability:

○     If you have selected one of the strategies (Active, Standard, or Mandatory) with Travel Profile Check, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Trip Rules and Profiles ® Trip and Class Rules ® Trip and Class Rules for Flights ® Flight Trip Rules ® Specify Evaluation Criteria for Low Cost Carrier Query. Be sure to read the documentation on this IMG activity.

○     If you have selected one of the strategies (Active, Standard, or Mandatory) with Settings for Fair-driven Availability Query, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Trip Rules and Profiles ® Travel Policy ® Travel Profiles ® Control and Evaluation of Availability Queries ® Specify Settings for Low Fare Search (Fare-driven Availability Query). Be sure to read the documentation on this IMG activity.

See also:

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for the IMG activities listed above.

For information about XI, see the SAP Library at SAP NetWeaver ® SAP NetWeaver Library ® SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability ® Process Integration by Key Capability ® SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure.

For more information on possible LCC content partners and how to implement them in XI, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/tm-downloads.