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.
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:
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
.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
.You update the your travel policy to include LCC connections.
To do this, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose
. 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
. 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
. Be sure to read the documentation on this IMG activity.
For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for the IMG activities listed above.
For information about XI, see the SAP Library at
.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 .