GDS Distribution

– AccesRail Products
– Distribution Method
– GDS Primary Screen
– Availability Display
– Fares Display
– PNR Display
– Ticketing
– Great potential with Airlines
– Network Expansion
– Benefits for airlines
– Customer benefits
– Travel Agents benefits
– Settlement BSP
– System setup
– GDS contracts

AccesRail Products

• Point-to-Point Travel
  • Direct Trips
  • Multiple segments with connecting points
• Railway Passes
  • Consecutive Days Passes
  • Flexi Passes
• Tour Products
  • Combination Tours
  • Multimodal Trips

Distribution Method

• Airline-style reservation and ticketing on the GDS primary screens
• Travel agents issue railway tickets the same way as they do airline tickets
• Participating railways are presented under the AccesRail carrier code “9B” allowing for through-ticketing in a common PNR

GDS Primary Screen

• Availability displays
• Fares displays
• Reservation and PNR creation process
• Ticketing as for airlines

Availability Display

• Railways in Direct Competition with Airlines
• Railways Connecting to Airlines
• Rail-only Point-to-Point and Passes
• Due to our longer travel times we are rarely first on displays where we compete with air but on top where there is no competition

Fares Display

• Air-Rail integrated display
• Given railway lower fares, our products show up first on this display

PNR Display

• Air-Rail integrated display

Ticketing

• Normal GDS ticketing commands
• Normal GDS ticketing procedures
• Normal Airline ticket stock

Great potential with Airlines

• One of the happy discoveries of the AccesRail development has been the airline interest in having Interline Agreements with us
• Hub and spoke concept applied to air/rail
• Added value of intermodality with airport express train links

Network Expansion

Benefits for airlines

• Network expansion opportunities at no real cost
• Network consolidation opportunities with minimum passenger loss
• Better service to existing customers
• Better load factor at lower cost
• Maintain a strong competitive position

Customer benefits

• Thru fare
• One ticket
• Complete itinerary
• May easily be included in loyalty program

Travel Agents benefits

• One PNR
• Same ticket stock only one ticket bin
• Same booking and ticketing process no special training
• Same back office procedures I.e. management information, customer accounting systems etc.
• More product to offer and satisfy the customer

Settlement BSP

System setup

• Railways File with AccesRail:
  – Train schedules
  – Origin/Destination fares
  – Pricing rules
  – Fare applicability period
  – Advance purchase
  – Travel restrictions etc.
• AccesRail distributes schedule and pricing data to GDS’s

GDS contracts

• AccesRail now has agreements with:
  

  Abacus
  Amadeus
  Apollo
  Axess
  Galileo
  Infini
  Sabre
  Sirena Travel
  Sita
  Travel Sky
  Topas
  Worldspan