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KIU Click allow the user to view and display fares without the need of a reservation. This process is commonly used to check fare´s restriction beforehand to make sure that given those conditions a given fare will be valid for a certain itinerary.
It can be also used as a way to get the cheapest available fare by identifying the applicable class of service , this way , at the moment of creating a record the user will now in advanced which class to offer.
The fare display option , is included within the RESERVATIONS module }
BASIC DISPLAY
Once on the fares module , in order to perform a basic fare display , the mandatory fields marked by ( * ) are to be filled in ; this fields are ORIGIN and DESTINATION , both follow the standard KIU CLICK logic , meaning that a minimun of three letter is requiered to return information , accepting the three letter code for the IATA airport code , or three letters which correspond to the city name.
After the the information about the city pair has been completed , click on the search button , and the results sheets will be shown.
All applicable fares matching the search criteria will be listed and indexed , asigning an item number to each one of them; this item will be later on used to check the fare details.
DISPLAY WITH SPECIFIC QUALIFIERS
Following the above logic and in case desired ,the user will be able to narrow down the search by adding additional qualifiers to the fare display request. The additional qualifiers will be
Travel Date : This will display a calendar allowing the user to select the travel date for which fares are being queried.
Pricing Date :Same as Travel Date, this option will display a calendar to select any date, specfically this option is used to check applicable fares when pricing in the future as fares being applied today , may vary from those that will be applicable on a future date.
Carrier :In case the company works with interline agreements, the option of checking for third party fares will be available as well. To do it , just input the two letter code for the parter carrier.
Currency :By default KIU CLICK will display the fares that apply for you based on various configurations and setting , one of them is the currency settings ; so in case you want to check for fares in any other currency other than your default one , you can input the three letter code identifier for the desired currency
Passenger type : Some fares are applicable only to certain passegner types such as seniors, youth , militray , etc. When checking for this type of fares , the specific three letter code for the desired passenger must be completed in order to retreive the applicable fares.
DISPLAYING FARE NOTES
Once the fares have been displayed , you can take a look at the fare rules with two different methds , once of them is simply by click over the fare line whose rules are to be displayed, the second method consists on typing the fare item number (shown on the righthand side column) under the Fare Nbr box and click on “SEE“
Any of the above will display the applicable fare rules such as loaded to the fare , hereunder an example :
Note : By defualt the fare rules will be shown as minimized and only those categories loaded to the rule , so in order to examine the information contained in those categories , you will need to click on the dropdown button (hightlighted above)