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This release introduces the ability for customers to purchase extra baggage during the booking flow for flights with Sabre Air EDIFACT.

This enhancement provides a consistent and user-friendly experience for customers when booking flights with different providers, allowing them to easily add extra baggage to their itineraries during the initial booking process.

How does it work:

The extra baggage selection process for Sabre Air EDIFACT providers now aligns with the existing user flow and design for other air providers.

The total trip price is dynamically updated to reflect the cost of any added baggage, ensuring transparency and clarity for customers.

Electronic Miscellaneous Documents (EMDs) will be issued for all purchased extra baggage.

This enhancement provides a more convenient and streamlined booking experience for customers traveling with Sabre Air EDIFACT providers.

To improve trip filtering, the “Online Trips” tab now includes a new “Ongoing” filter. By default, “Upcoming” is selected. The “Ongoing” filter displays only Company Trips that are currently in progress, meaning the “StartDate” is before today and the “EndDate” is after today. This enhancement provides a convenient way to easily view and manage active Company Trips.

This release introduces a new configuration option for missed savings. When enabled, this setting requires users to explicitly select a reason code for missed savings on the cart view. Additionally, a new checkbox “no default code” allows companies to enforce the selection of a reason code by users, preventing the automatic selection of a default code. This change is providing greater flexibility and control.

Travelers can now easily modify or cancel their own air bookings (both single and multi-pax trips) directly within the system. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and control for travelers, mirroring the existing functionality for rail bookings.

Currently, when users make reservations for multiple travelers, the system processes the booking under a single reservation number. This means all travelers share the same reservation, making it impossible to cancel for individual passengers (pax).

With this enhancement, each traveler will receive a separate reservation in the hotel system. This allows for an individual cancellation of bookings for each traveler and greater flexibility in managing group reservations.

The feature also supports the requirement to send MCTO data separately for each traveler on the CDS side, ensuring streamlined processes and accurate reporting.

Important Note:
Due to the significant impact this feature has on the booking process, we recommend testing it initially with a limited number of clients to ensure smooth implementation and to identify any potential issues early.

We have extended the functionality of analytical fields to include Trip type fields, providing greater flexibility and control for managing company-specific configurations. Analytical fields can now be used to filter the form of payment field by Trip Reason, allowing for more granular control over payment options and reducing potential user errors. Thanks to a new checkbox, “Use for company profile merge,” which has been added to the configuration tool for Traveller type analytical fields, companies can designate one specific field for company profile merging.

These enhancements provide greater customization options for managing analytical fields and improve the user experience by streamlining workflows and reducing potential errors.