Booking Engine

Air Interface - User can look for a flight by selecting the departure and arrival locations. Can select the period and passenger details. He can also specify the class, choose for direct or non-stop flights.  A search can be done on multiple preferred airlines. After entering the mandatory search criteria, the Booking Engine searches and displays the matching flights on the screen

Hotel Search - A user can look for hotel by entering the location along with the period and room details, can select a preferred destination from the given list & also select minimum star rating as a search parameter.

Features

•  Airline schedules : Provides user with the ability to search for the flight timetable and proceed with travel plans.

•  Airline availability and Reservation : Enables two way flight search- for available flights and fare options.

•  Flights search: The user selects the available flights and takes a quote for the itinerary.

•  Fare search: The user can perform fares based search for the best seven itineraries that assure availability of space for the quoted fares.

Such availability requests can be performed with the preferences of operating airlines, departure/ arrival timings and direct flight options.The fares displayed are accompanied with the available fare rules that are received from the host at the time of quote.

•  Air availability by fare : Offers flight search flow that starts with the selection of all available special fares. The user can select the fares and view the corresponding applicable flights.

•  Airline seat maps : Offers colorful airline seat maps that extend help to the customers choose their advance seating and a better perception of in-flight services they are going to experience.

•  Hotel availability & Reservation : Offers Hotel availability at the chosen destination. The user may search for a hotel at a specific location, a hotel with select features, room type, hotel type and the room rates within a specified budget etc. Also, hotel rules and restrictions are displayed with the room rates to keep the customer fully informed.

•  Car rentals & reservation : Enables users to search for Car rentals at a select destination with or without a flight searched. The preferences may include the car rental, the location, car type and budget etc. The car description is also displayed for keeping the customer informed about what is offered at the destination.

•  Profiles : Provides the capability to use Customer profiles. This includes the corporate and individual customers. The Engine extends the feature of enabling the Corporate members to add their associate users on the site to share the benefits they may have over the other customers.

•  Private fares : Can make use of Private Fares stored by the travel agency. The functionality extends to the categorization of the corporate and other customers to have separate fares structure.

•  External fares : Enables travel agencies to store their negotiated fares in an external Fare database designed by us. Such fares will be displayed in response to a special fare request for the online customers preferred by the Travel agency or otherwise.

•  Currency converter : The user can convert the amount of fare into a preferred international currency, although the payment will be made in the currency of country of purchase. The Fares and tariffs can be displayed in the preferred currency for the customers.

•  Shopping cart : Can offer this feature in case the client would like their customers to book air/ hotel and car in a single PNR.

•  Payment options : Also offers different payment options as per customer requirements. The intimation is sent via e-mail to the customer.

•  Flight trackers : As one of its additional features, the Internet Booking Engine can offer flight information on flight routing and timings.