Glossary for the airline industry
From A-Z, this glossary covers definitions and explanations for common airline industry terminology.
(CTA) Special Permission. Reference to the approval number given by a government for an application. See also approval number.
1. (interline accounting) Special Prorate Agreement. 2. (CTA) Special Permission Application. A submission to the Canadian government on behalf of a carrier requesting permission to action revisions on less than the governmentally required statutory notice.
1. Passengers who are holding tickets on standby fares that do not allow them to make reservations.
2. Passengers on a waiting list awaiting an available seat.
A fare amount filed with ATPCO as a fare record or Fare By Rule that is used in the first step in the Negotiated Fares process to calculate or determine related fare amounts.
A type of optimized pricing where airlines pre-distribute all prices using standard toolsets. It offers up to 26 price points, and prices can be updated multiple times per day (also referred to as fare filing).
A type of optimized pricing where airlines pre-distribute all prices using standard toolsets. It offers up to 26 price points, and prices can be updated multiple times per day (also referred to as fare filing).
Found at the top of the screen in the Fares system, this field contains queries, batch activities, and downloads links. The number of uploads that are processing is also displayed,
An intermediate ticketed point within the fare component at which the calculated elapsed time (the period between the scheduled local times of arrival and departure) is greater than the time period defined in a carrier's tariff as a stopover (4 hours for the ATPCO US/CA Domestic Fares Product and 24 hours for the ATPCO International Fares Product). A stopover is always a transfer.
(DOT) Special Tariff Permission. Reference to the approval number given by a government for an application. See also approval number.
Special Tariff Permission Application. A submission to the United States government on behalf of a carrier requesting permission to action revisions on less than the governmentally required statutory notice.
Subdivisions of IATA Traffic Conference areas that may or may not correspond to geographic definitions.
A subdivision of a category used to organize complex data. For example, Category 10 contains eight subcategories.
Short for Subscriptions. Any ATPCO data sent via electronic transmission to subscribers of this service for use in text displays and in autopricing.
Any company that buys automated data from ATPCO.
The transmission of fare and rule changes to subscribers multiple times per day.
ATPCO Pricing & Shopping Subscriptions; ATPCO data sent via electronic transmission.
In dynamic offers, another name for the operating carrier who is providing the service to the passenger.
A type of Product Catalog, the Supplier Catalog aims to be used for communication between a Retailer and a Supplier and means a list of products and services or items that a Supplier has chosen to make available for sale by the Retailer, including but not limited to information about where the products and services are available (i.e., location, market, schedules, miscellaneous information, etc.) and any specified general conditions of these. The content available in the catalog depends on the bilateral agreements (SRSIA and other partners).
Technical standards accompanying ATPCO Proprietary Standards on pricing and retailing automation that describe how the standards interact with other supply chain processes (e.g., ticketing, reservations, revenue accounting).
A table containing a set of data elements that are used to further express additional information about other data. For example, Carrier Flight Table (Table 986) within Category 4 and Fare By Rule Index is a supporting table. Also called internal table.
163 Sub Code
164 Tax Text
165 Equipment Type
166 Features and Attributes
167 Sector Detail
168 Service and Baggage
169 Passenger Type Code
170 Currency
171 Carrier/Resulting Fare Class
172 Account Code
173 Ticket Designator
178 User Zone
183 Security
186 Carrier Flight
189 Fare Identification
190 Carrier Application
191 Seat Characteristics
196 Text
198 RBD
966 Seasonality / Day of Week Indicator (pending)
974 Fare Type Table
976 Surface Sector
978 Zone
979 Fare Creator
982 Security (discontinued)
983 Security
984 Via Location (pending)
985 Carrier Limit Table (pending)
986 Carrier/Flight Table
987 Waiver
988 Reissue
989 Base Fare Table
990 Carrier Application Table
992 Currency
993 Same Point
994 Override Date
995 Geographic Specifications
996 Text
997 Joint Carrier
999 RBD Exception Code Table