Reservation and ticketing process for space-available seats to airline employees
AssigneeNon-Revenue Holdings, LLC
InventorTristan Schukraft
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Abstract
A process for reserving and ticketing interline travel for an airline employee affiliate. The airline employee affiliate develops a travel itinerary for interline travel. The travel itinerary is processed in electronic form in a common information platform administered by a third party purchase facilitator. An electronic ticket data is associated with the travel itinerary in the common information platform, wherein the electronic ticket data is in an electronic format compatible with a transporting airline reservation system. Finally, the electronic ticket data and travel itinerary are transmitted to a carrier reservation system for listing the airline employee affiliate for travel on the transporting airline.
Claims24
A process for reserving and ticketing space-available and positive-space available seats to an airline employee affiliate, the steps comprising:
- developing an interline travel itinerary for the airline employee affiliate for travel on a transporting airline;
- processing the interline travel itinerary in electronic form in a common information platform administered by a third party purchase facilitator;
- associating an electronic ticket data with the interline travel itinerary in the common information platform, wherein the common information platform formats the electronic ticket data and the interline travel itinerary for automatic reception by a transporting airline reservation system;
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- transmitting the interline travel itinerary to the transporting airline reservation system for listing the airline employee affiliate for travel on the transporting airline.
A process for reserving and ticketing space-available and positive-space available seats to an airline employee affiliate, the steps comprising:
- verifying eligibility of the airline employee affiliate by retrieving employment information from an employer database, wherein verification determines the access of the airline employee affiliate to a common information platform administered by a third party purchase facilitator;
- developing an interline travel itinerary for the airline employee affiliate for travel on a transporting airline;
- formatting the interline travel itinerary in the common information platform for compatibility with an employing airline reservation system;
- transferring the interline travel itinerary in electronic form for automatic reception by the employing airline reservation system, wherein the employing airline reservation system creates an electronic ticket data based on the interline travel itinerary transferred by the common information platform;
- receiving the electronic ticket data in the common information platform from the employing airline reservation system;
- associating the electronic ticket data with the interline travel itinerary in the common information platform, wherein the common information platform formats the electronic ticket data and the interline travel itinerary for automatic reception by a transporting airline reservation system;
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- transmitting the interline travel itinerary to the transporting airline reservation system for listing the airline employee affiliate for travel on the transporting airline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.