Instead of using the standard flight availability query, you can also display and select the best-price flight connections for the whole trip. To do this, use the Best-Price Flight function. You can use the best-price query for single flights or when requesting several flights for a trip (this is where you see the advantage of the best-price query). The advantages of this query come from the fact that flight prices are influenced by a number of factors - there is no single fixed price per leg of flight. These factors include:

• Outbound and return flights
• Stopovers or round trips
• Days chosen for the trip
• Duration of stay

The best-price query determines the optimum price for the all the flights in a travel plan taking any special booking conditions for the individual flights into consideration.

Executing the best-price query removes the need to query the availability of each individual flight.

You have activated the Best-Price Flight function in Customizing for Travel Planning and have determined which strategies are to be considered for the best-price flight query.

To make the settings, refer to Customizing for Travel Planning under:

• Dialog and Planning Control ® Travel Planning Control ® Define Price and Availability Strategies
• Trip Rules and Profiles ® Travel Profiles ® Specify Settings for Lowest Fare Search (Fare-Driven Availability Query

You have chosen Plan Trip or Travel Manager ® Create Travel Plan and are in the Travel Plan: <First Name Last Name>, Pers. No. <Personnel number> screen.

1. Choose Flight (with Quickinfo Add Flight Request). The Flight Request dialog box appears.
2. Enter the data as required.

3. Choose Lowest Fares with Quickinfo Fare-Driven Availability Query or Best-Priced Flights with Quickinfo Find Best Priced Flight Connections, to display the flights with the best fares for your flight selection.
4. To reserve a flight:

1. Choose Reserve/Change. The Airfare and Flight Preferences screen appears.
2. Make the settings required for your preferred flight selection.
3. Choose Enter. - with Quickinfo Selection Process (Enter). The Flight Request dialog box appears.
4. If you want to copy the flight, choose Copy with Quickinfo Copy to Travel Plan (F2). Otherwise, modify the request as required, using the push buttons available.

To change a flight connection, cancel the requested connection (see the canceling section below) and create a new flight request as described in the section above.

You can specify further preferences (for example smoking/nonsmoking, seating area and preferred meal), by choosing Preferences.

To select additional flights (such as connecting or return flights), choose Flight (with Quickinfo Add Flight Request) and repeat the procedure described above.

To book the selected flights, choose Book - with Quickinfo Book Travel Plan (CTRL+F11).