RM Concepts
OTA, Leisure, Business, TMC, Direct are all examples of these
What are channels?
Clusters of bookings at forecast key level are called this
What are observations?
These are the type of surcharges that are included in RFDBs
What are Nominal Surcharges?
Metrics seen in Post Analysis are not truly flown data, they are actually this
What are D1 metrics?
This is the longest route on the West team, and the longest in the domestic 48 system.
What is MIASEA?
This is the process of adjusting performance metrics so that different routes can be compared
What is Stage Length Adjustment?
This is the number of forecast keys for a flight in coach cabin
What is 140?
The T inventory determines the availability for this noncash product
What is MileSAAver?
This is the Sabre Fare quote command you can add on at the end of the fare quote that displays round trip fares as half round-trip
FQDFWORD???
What is ¥HR?
This is the only D48 state in the West team where AA only flies to one airport
What is Idaho? (BOI)
This is when a market uses its own forecast as well as sponsor forecast
What is Partial Sponsorship?
This happens to demand when TIRE is rerun or when a market has a class map change
What is demand is reset to pure?
This is how our system prevents full Y from being closed
What is the bid price cap?
System sets Y RFDB as BP
The BP Calendar tab on this report, which is maintained by the Data Science Team, displays the BP for every date in a calendar type view
What is RTT?
This West team airport is the only airport in the US to be located inside of a National Park
What is JAC?
AA RM is now able to communicate with RM from this airline from the land down under because this type of partnership, one that is a cooperative arrangement that includes both a revenue sharing structure and a goal of metal neutrality, was approved in 2019. (we need the airline and the type of partnership)
What is Qantas and joint business?
This is the reason we can have a BP above a FO rule for a premium cabin
What is Lower cabin control?
LCC happens after BP adjustment jobs
Name 4 restrictions that RFDB considers
What are
DOW, Time Verified Fares (only if span over an hour), Seasonality, AP, Blackout Dates, Nominal Surcharges, Travel/Sales effective dates, Routing, POS, DOW
These are the two reasons that bookings are seen differently between Post Analysis and the MIRS FBC Report
What are
· D1 vs. Flown Bookings
· EVT(RFDB) vs. Actual Fare Value
This is the only spoke on West team that does not have service from DFW at any point in the year
What is Lihue (LIH)?
This is the process of removing/shifting demand in YD buckets where there are no LCL price points, it is run every night.
What is attainable demand?
Demand in buckets YD6 and below is reallocated where possible but not in other cabins.
These are the 4 steps of the Optimizer
What are DDM, Anti Buy Down, EMSR, BPC
When an inventory does not have a fare in it, we give it this to use for its RFDB, which is a % of the Y fare
What is a default host fare (DHF)?
The MARS report on the YM Dashboard shows information about this
What is AU/Overbooking levels?
This West team spoke will have Saturday only service to SJD (Cabo) this winter
What is SMF?