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CRANE PAX – Web Based Reservations and Ticketing System

Crane PAX is a sophisticated web based airline reservations and ticketing system for low-cost carriers. With its powerful inventory control and pricing facilities, advanced reservation and sales distribution functions it manages the whole operations cycle up to the point of departure. With full integration with Crane DCS or third party Departure Control Systems, Crane PAX generates all pre-flight messages and can process the messages from DCS systems. All these features make Crane PAX the natural choice for the dynamic low-cost carriers, using Internet for as the main sales and distribution channel to reach their customers and agents.

Its modern design is combined with the detail and functionality of traditional systems providing a unique blend: Crane PAX is cost effective, easy to learn and easy to use, but still able to perform sophisticated tasks.

The ticketing module allows ticketless travel and IATA electronic ticketing. Web based agent sales distribution is an integral part of the system where agents and the airline can have immediate access to sales reports and commission calculations. Agents can manage their subagent network using the same system, which greatly enhances the power of the sales network.

Crane PAX reservations web site gives your customers a new travel experience. They can act like their own sales agent, making reservations and managing their future reservations by making seat selection, rebooking or cancellations.

 

Main Features

  • Web-based airline reservation solution with advanced sales and ticketing functions.
  • Provided as a hosting solution.
  • Easy and fast implementation.
  • Internet distribution to sales agents and airline offices
  • Integrated IBE
  • Integrated Check-in with Crane DCS
  • Daily Flight Operations
  • IATA standards
  • Paperless travel
  • Code share services and other travel partnerships
  • Dynamic Inventory Control System
  • Flexible Nesting. The inventory system is capable of dealing with serial and/or parallel class nesting structure, and provides interfaces to the leading revenue management systems for real-time optimization and forecasting.
  • Powerful fares module

With Crane PAX at its core, the Crane Airline Solutions family delivers a complete integrated solution for your airline.

Reservation & Ticketing

  • Web based ticketless travel or electronic ticketing system
  • Easy and low-cost sales distribution over Internet.
  • Full PNR
  • Creating, retrieving and splitting bookings and group bookings
  • Adding/changing passengers’ names
  • SSR handling
  • Rebooking and reissuing tickets
  • On-line advanced seat selection
  • Automatic itinerary pricing including taxes and other surcharges
  • Agency definition and user authorizations
  • Booking lists
  • Cash, credit card and other payments
  • Creating virtual sales limits for agencies
  • Sales Reports
  • Checking duplicate bookings
  • Sending/receiving messages from/to offices/agents
  • Automatic cancellation of PNRs with expired time limits
  • Reservation & Ticketing

Inventory Control & Fares

  • Leg- and/or segment-based inventory control
  • Up to 36 selling classes
  • Serial and/or parallel nesting capability
  • Adjustable authorization levels to enable overbooking or protecting seats
  • Sales and cancellation alerts
  • Waiting list management
  • Ability to adjust inventories for a range of flight departures with a single entry
  • Re-accommodation capability to transfer passengers from one flight to another
  • Comments field enables the user to make necessary notes
  • Fares are closely integrated with the flight inventory.
  • Fare basis and tariff definitions with standard rules and restrictions
  • Penalty and cancellation rules
  • Multi-currency fares
  • Add-on definitions

Internet Booking Engine

  • Customers can create, maintain and log into accounts to:
    • Buy tickets
    • See all their past and future bookings
    • Cancel or change their reservations
    • Select seats (with or without a charge)
    • Check in via Internet
  • Real time flight information over the web.
  • Anonymous customers can also buy tickets and make Internet check-in.

Support for Industry Standards

Crane PAX System supports a wide range of industry standards.

  • AIRIMP – Interline message procedures.
  • CUTE – Usage of CUTE equipment at airports.
  • Standard Type B messages are automatically produced and incoming messages are processed.
  • OTA Web Services.

Reporting and Accounting

  • A wide range of reports for booking status, load factors, yield, sales revenues, commissions, flight revenues
  • Tickets are prorated to calculate coupon-based flight revenues.
  • Credit payment methods to keep agent cash sales under control.

Check-In Integration

  • Total integration with Crane DCS
  • Integration with third party DCS systems using IATA standard messages including PNL/ADL/ETL.

Technical

  • Full function hosting solution.
  • Native integration with other products of Crane Family
  • Oracle Database

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Crane PAX. Reliable, functional, accessible.

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