4th Week : Introduction to Air Asia (Part 2)

AIR ASIA'S COMPUTER RESERVATION SYSTEM

Computerized Reservation System (CRS): a computerized system containing information about, inter alia, air carriers' schedules, availability, fares and related services with or without facilities through which reservations can be made or tickets may be issued to the extent that some or all of these services are made available to subscribers;

Distribution facilities: facilities provided by a system vendor to a subscriber or consumer for the provision of information about air carriers' schedules, availability, fares and related services and for making reservations and/or issuing tickets, and for any other related services;

System vendor: any entity and its affiliates which are responsible for the operation or marketing of a CRS;

Parent carrier: an air carrier which is a system vendor or which directly or indirectly, alone or jointly with others, owns or controls a system vendor;

Participating carrier: an air carrier which has an agreement with a system vendor for the distribution of its air transport products through a CRS. To the extent that a parent carrier uses the distribution facilities of its own CRS, it shall be considered a participating carrier

Subscriber: a person or an undertaking, other than a participating carrier, using, under contract or other arrangement with a system vendor, a CRS for the sale of air transport products directly to individual members of the public;

Principal display: a comprehensive neutral display of data concerning services between city pairs, within a specified time period, containing inter alia all direct flights by participating carriers;

Information retrieved from : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/workingpapers/tran/105/chap3_en.htm

Written by Punitha