Overview
Inventory transports can be used as primary connections between Departure and Arrival airports in a template, like live flight offers. At the moment, transport can be of type Flight, Bus or Train.
Additionally, there is no match pre-condition regarding the airports of inventory flights and the existence of airport stops at the template level, meaning an inventory flight can be used in a template that does not include an airport.
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How to create Inventory Transports?
Before creating an inventory transport, the following information must be known:
Start/End date and time
Departure and Arrival airports
Segments (if applicable)
Carrier Code
Net-sale price
Type of transport
To generate an inventory transport:
Go to Cockpit
Click on Inventory
Click on Products
Select Transports
Click on Create Transport
Select an adequate currency
Click Save
Adding a Description
In this section, the Outbound and Inbound (or Return Direction) transports can be created in terms of departure and arrival data. Here it is also possible to add alternative transport for the return transport. To do so:
Click on the tab Description
Click on Add new segment
Add the data asked in the modal
Know more:
Both the Carrier and Operated by fields utilise the two-letter airline code provided by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Here, you will find a search engine provided by IATA. This resource is designed to assist you in identifying these codes based on the airline's name, as well as vice versa.
Please note, the airline code located in the Carrier field acts as a mapping key to display the correct logo in the Planner. Therefore, a precise match is mandatory.
Select the type of transport (Flight, Train, Bus)
Click Save
If the transport has more than one segment, click on Add new segment again and repeat the steps mentioned before. The same steps apply to adding an Inbound transport (or Return Direction) and Alternative Returns.
Adding Service Categories
Service Categories can be defined per transport direction (Outbound, Return and Alternatives). For each transport direction, more than one Service Category can be defined. To add a Service Category:
Click on the tab Service Categories
Click on Add new price category
Select the adequate transport Class (Economy, Premium Economy, Business, First)
Fill in the required information
To add more than one Service Category to the same transport direction, click again on Add a new price category and fill in the information
Find more information about the display of flight taxes here.
Click Save
Adding Allotments
Inventory flights can have assigned allotments by Direction and Service category. To learn more about allotments, please see this article.
Additional Tabs
Learn more about the use of the Additional Tabs in the following overview.
Topic | Description |
Cancellation Policies | Cancellation Policies can be created within Settings and will appear in the drop-down menu. See here Or a custom cancellation policy can be defined and set directly on the product via the Add Custom Policy button. |
Tags | Tags can be used to distinguish products on the platform from one another and to pull the information from the transfer via our APIs. |
Miscellaneous | This tab is for internal use only. Here you are able to
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Integration | An External Reference can be configured when setting up Service Categories for Transport Products, which also will also expose it on the Booking API. |
Inventory Flights at the Template level
Inventory Flights can be added to a template via Cockpit through Flight Configuration. To learn more about how to add inventory transports to a template, please check this article.
Connecting Flights
Inventory flights can be used as connecting transfers between stops within a pre-existing template or an Individual Trip (at the planner level). These types of flights have only one direction (Outbound) defined. Below, the setup of both scenarios (at the template level and at the individual trip level) is shown.
Connecting Flights within Templates
To utilize connecting flights within a pre-existing template:
Create an Outbound/Inbound flight (as described above).
Create the Connecting Flight itself, where only the Outbound flight is defined (on the Description tab), as well as the respective Service Category.
the Departure and Arrival date must match the template architecture. Additionally, the flight must occur between the time gap of the Outbound/Inbound flights.
After creating all the necessary flights, the Outbound/Inbound ones need to be associated to the template. There is no need to aggregate the Connecting Flight to the template. To do this:
Go to Cockpit
Click on Inventory
Click on Package Builder
Click on Itinerary Templates
Search for the intended template that will use inventory flights (if the template already exists)OR
Click on Create Template to create a new template
Within the template
Go to the Stops tab
Add a placeholder of type flight for the Connecting Flight
Click on Add connection
Click on Click to add a new connection
Click on Create Transfer Placeholder
Select type flight
Define start locations as airports related to the stops
Click on Add transfer placeholder
Click Done
Click Save
Click Back
Go to the Flight Configuration tab
Select Fixed as the flight configuration
Add the Outbound/Inbound flights (described here)
Click Save
Go to the Miscellaneous tab
Regenerate the Availability of Template
Click Save
Publish the template
At this point, when the template is instantiated in the available date, all three flights are shown at the Planner level, specifically in the Main trip and Transports tabs.
Connecting Flights within Individual trips
In this scenario, inventory flights can be added to an itinerary via flight search in the Planner. For this, some pre-conditions must apply:
Outbound/Inbound flights exist in the Inventory
Connecting flight exists in the Inventory
Individual trip has a flight placeholder between the stops
To add a placeholder in an Individual trip at the Planner level:
On Edit Route / Plan Your Trip page, define the transport as a flight OR
On the Main Trip tab, click on Adjust to change the transfer type to Flight
To associate inventory flights to the itinerary at the Planner level:
Go to the Transports tab
Write the Departure airport (same as the one defined in the Outbound flight)
Click Search so that the Outbound/Inbound and Connecting flights are shown
Click on Select to add the flights to the itinerary
Booking change handling
Inventory flights added to a template with a Fixed flight configuration can not be replaced or removed at the Planner level (as described in this article).
However, if a booking change is triggered, the user can Replace the previous inventory flights for different existing inventory flights (of the same availability) OR for live offers. Flights can also be removed at this point.
This functionality also applies to Connecting (or Multi-city) flights.