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 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:

  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 Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning Next navigation step External Reservation Systems Next navigation step Define Reservation Systems End of the navigation path .

  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 Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning Next navigation step Access to External Reservation Systems Next navigation step Access Parameters for External Reservation Systems Next navigation step Access Parameters for Other Reservation Systems Next navigation step Define Use of XI Interfaces for Categories End of the navigation path .

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

    To do this, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Start of the navigation path Process Control Next navigation step Dialog and Planning Control Next navigation step Travel Planning Control Next navigation step Define Behavior for Price and Availability Queries End of the navigation path .

    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 Start of the navigation path Trip Rules and Profiles Next navigation step Trip and Class Rules Next navigation step Trip and Class Rules for Flights Next navigation step Flight Trip Rules Next navigation step Specify Evaluation Criteria for Low Cost Carrier Query End of the navigation path . 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 Start of the navigation path Trip Rules and Profiles Next navigation step Travel Policy Next navigation step Travel Profiles Next navigation step Control and Evaluation of Availability Queries Next navigation step Specify Settings for Low Fare Search (Fare-driven Availability Query) End of the navigation path . 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 Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver Library Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Next navigation step Process Integration by Key Capability Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure End of the navigation path .

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 .