Airlines Ticketing and Fare Construction syllabus

Airlines Ticketing and Fare Construction

• 1 Civil Aviation and Travel Organization (7 LHs)

  • World and Nepalese history of civil aviation
  • Travel organizations: IATA and ICAO
  • Business relationship between airlines and travel agents
• 2 Airlines Geography (7 LHs)

  • IATA geographical areas TC1, TC2 and TC3 and their sub-areas
  • IATA code/decode: cities, states, countries and airline abbreviations
  • Global indicators and fare structure selection
• 3 Travel Itinerary Designing (10 LHs)

  • Journey anatomy: origin, destination, transfer, stopover, turnaround and intermediate ticketed points
  • Journey/routing types: one way, round trip, circle trip, round the world and open jaws
  • Minimum Connecting Time (MCT) and its application
  • GMT/UTC, time differences, local time and actual flying hours
• 4 Travel Terminologies (3 LHs)

  • Adult, child and infant; normal and special fares
  • Endorsement and rerouting; deportee and inadmissible passengers
  • Unaccompanied minors; no show and go show
  • Baggage rules and passengers with special requirements
• 5 IATA Air Fare Calculation - Normal fare (12 LHs)

  • Mileage principle for one-way, round-trip and circle-trip routings
  • Mandatory HIP check
  • Backhaul Minimum and Circle Trip Minimum checks
  • Fare calculation exercises using minimum checks
  • TAT entries and rules
  • Mixed-class fares and Lowest Combination Principle
• 6 Passenger Tickets and other Accountable Documents (7 LHs)

  • IATA Passenger Ticket and Baggage Check
  • Protocols, agreements and conventions regulating ticket issuance
  • IATA Clearing House and Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP)
  • e-Tickets: ticket entries and implications
• 7 Airport and its Formalities (2 LHs)

  • Passenger, departure, transfer and arrival formalities
  • Acceptance and refusal of carriage