Sunday, December 26, 2010

Benefit of GDS air ticketing courses

  • Apply mileage system pricing skills to international routings
  • Read and interpret GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
  • Define common fare construction terms and abbreviations
  • Identify and price different journey types (including one-way, round/circle trip, Round-the-World and mixed class journeys
  • Use the IATA Fare Formula to correctly price a journey
  • Apply global indicators to routings
  • Assess and apply air fare taxes
  • Read, interpret and apply fare rules
  • Converting between different currencies and NUCs
  • Apply all minimum-fare rule checks in pricing itineraries
  • Use side trips
  • Add a manual fare to a GDS booking file
  • Know how to use GDS to issue tickets for manually-priced reservations
  • Apply the Lowest Combination Factor to quote the most competitive air fare
  • Apply rule exceptions
  • Construct and read a linear fare construction
  • Decode and interpret each field of an e-ticket
  • Issue electronic tickets

Monday, December 6, 2010

IATA/FIATA Dangerous Goods Course Content

  • Contents of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations Manual
  • Dangerous goods classes and divisions
  • Identification
  • Packing requirements
  • Marking and labeling
  • Documentation
  • Radioactive materials
  • State and operator variations
  • Checking procedures
  • Excepted quantities