Passenger Non-Prime Billing RA42 Breakout Session SIS – Simplified Interline Settlement

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime2 Overview of this Presentation  Introduction & Scope of Presentation  Rejection, Billing, & Credit Memos  Correspondence  Audit Trail  File Formats  Questions & Answers Orange text denotes non-core functionality.

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime3 Paperless Support WG Members  Bob Portschy, UA (chair)  Annette Chanez, AS  Györgyi Szantner, BA  Khaldoon Al-Sharjabi, IY  Lori Lien, NW  Antoinette Nelson, NZ  Pei-Shan Lim, SQ  Terry Delaney, IATA  Gianna Monsch, IATA

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime4 Paperless Support WG Members - RAWG Representing the Revenue Accounting Working Group:  Bob Portschy, UA (chair)  Györgyi Szantner, BA  Antoinette Nelson, NZ

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime5 WG Meetings  March – Europe (1.5 days)  April – US (1.5 days)  May – Europe (2.5 days)  June – Canada (2 days)  3 further conference calls and homework due each meeting

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime6 Interline Settlement - Now ICH ATPCO (incl F&F pre IDEC Validation) Billed Airline Billing Airline Cargo IDEC File (monthly) Pax IDEC File (monthly) F12 – (weekly) F1 – net amounts of inv F2 - summary Cargo IDEC File (monthly) Pax IDEC File (monthly) F3– (weekly) Paper invoices, with coupon listing, coupons, rejects, supporting documents (monthly) AIA F&F F&F: receives NFP value All: May receive sales records ARC-Compass (NFP storage) Previously released sales record prorate engine prorate engine GDSs BSPs ACH Recap sheets - weekly Settlement sheets – (weekly)

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime7 Rejection, Billing, & Credit Memos – With IS Billed Airline Integrated Settlement Billing Airline Enabling Processes Billing & Invoicing Processes Central Repository “Digital Signature” Company Enabling Processes Settlement Processes ICHACH Processes at time of Sales NFP engine ARC COMPASS™ Prorate Engine IS-WEB IS-XML IS-IDEC Usage File IS-WEB IS-XML IS-IDEC Send RMs, BMs, CMs Send Supporting Docs (either order) Receive RMs, BMs, CMs Receive Supporting Docs Validation Validation:  Guarantees links between records (e.g. 2 nd and 1 st RMs)  Enforces timeframes and “order” (1 st RM -> 2 nd RM -> 3 rd RM)  Ensures file is properly formed

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime8 Correspondence – With IS Billed Airline Integrated Settlement Billing Airline Enabling Processes Billing & Invoicing Processes Central Repository “Digital Signature” Company Enabling Processes Settlement Processes ICHACH Processes at time of Sales NFP engine ARC COMPASS™ Prorate Engine IS-WEB IS-XML IS-IDEC Usage File IS-WEB IS-XML IS-IDEC Send Correspondence (including attachments) Receive Correspondence (including attachments) Validation Validation:  Guarantees links between records (e.g. 2 nd and 1 st RM)  Enforces timeframes and “order”  Ensures file is properly formed

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime9 Correspondence – With IS  Correspondence can include an “authority to bill” flag which identifies when the authority to bill has been issued  Not tied to settlement periods like transactions in Integrated Settlement – real-time and similar to but via IS-WEB interface  Validation ensures no “cross-over” – correspondence can only be in reply to another correspondence (or 3 rd - stage RM) and cannot be out-of-order

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime10 Audit Trail & Rejection History  With operational data being stored:  Future records (e.g. rejections) don’t need supporting documents re-attached  IS-WEB can be used to search and take action on previous billings:  Search & browse through all records for which your carrier billed or was billed  View audit trail of linked correspondences, rejections, and prime billings  Find outgoing correspondences that haven’t been responded to  Go directly to appropriate action

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime11 Audit Trail Analysis & Reporting  Search by accounting code, coupon number, source code, billing period, authority to bill, etc  Drill down through tickets, coupons, tax breakdowns, correspondences, etc  Viewing and downloading of analysis (reporting) available  Actions (where applicable):  View the rejection history  Create a rejection memo  Create correspondence  Create a billing memo

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime12 Rejection History (example view) ActivityDateRecord / Supporting Docs 1 st Correspondence1 May$35; “I do not agree with your calculation…” 3 rd Rejection1 Apr$50; Long Explanation.doc 2 nd Rejection1 Mar$100; “See attached”; ticket.jpg 1 st Rejection1 Feb$100; “No coupon in our system” Prime Billing1 Jan$100 Create Correspondence

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime13 Passenger File Formats ProcessIS-IDECIS-XMLIS-WEB Rejection Memos (incl. Sampling, but with additional fields) Correspondence (incl. Sampling, but with additional fields) Billing & Credit Memos Rejection & Correspondence History (Audit Trail)  Subject to change based on costs and carrier demand  See ‘IS Interfaces & Validation’ and ‘Pax Prime’ presentations for more information

September 2008SIS – Materials – RA42 Breakout Pax Non-Prime14 Thank you. SIS Website: 