RM Concepts
Basic dimensions of demand
What are quantity, price & time?
Clusters of bookings at forecast key level
What are observations?
Type of surcharges included in RFDBs
What are Nominal Surcharges?
The demand we see in Post Analysis
What is UNC MWP Demand?
OTA, Leisure, Business, TMC, Direct
What are channels?
When a market uses its own forecast as well as sponsor forecast
What is Partial Sponsorship? (Previously called split history, though now split history has different meaning)
Number of forecast keys for a flight in coach cabin and premium Cabin
What are 140 and 70?
RFDB determined as a % of Y fare
What is DHF?
Sabre Fare quote command that displays RT fares as half round-trip
What is ¥HR?
The process of adjusting performance metrics so different routes can be compared
What is Stage Length Adjustment?
Auto Sponsor affects all but these markets
What are spoke to spoke markets?
What happens to demand when TIRE is rerun and a market has a class map change
When is one instance where demand is reset to pure?
On a multi leg flight, Using Local availability of leg with PE cabin + Coach cabin O&D selling decision to determine the selling fare
What is Mixed Cabin Availability?
Reason bookings are different in Post Analysis and MIRS FBC Report – 2 answers
What are
· D1 vs. Flown Bookings
· EVT(RFDB) vs. Actual Fare Value
After pulling a fare quote, this function will change the departing city
What is FQ*D[City Code]?
The process of removing/shifting demand in YD buckets where there are no LCL price points– run every night.
What is attainable demand?
Demand in buckets YD6 and below is reallocated where possible but not in other cabins.
The reason we can have a BP above the FO rule for a premium cabin
What is Lower cabin control?
LCC happens after BP adjustment jobs
Sets Y RFDB as the Max BP of Local/Flow (in domestic markets) OR Sets Max Y RFDB across either POS and Local/Flow as the Max BP (International)
What is the bid price cap to prevent Y closure?
Causes flight ID to change for both multi or single frequency/day flights
What happens when a flight shifts from one flight date to another?
What is Semi Automatic Business Research Environment?
Formula for MWP demand
What is this formula?:
MWP = Cumulative Demand of the Class - Cumulative Demand of the Class Above
If mentioned - Cumulative Demand of the Class = TD of the class + ID of the Classes Above
The way the quarterly process feeds into the daily future forecast
What is the quarterly process generates TIRE and Seasonality coefficients that are then used to calculate Future MWP demand?
Name 5 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
What happens to data in Post Analysis after a TIRE Rerun
Historical data is not overwritten but the new TIRE coefficient is included for appended data
UNLESS there's a class map change, then all history is restated with the updated TIRE coefficient
The number of countries that AA TA flew to in June 2019
What is 15?
Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Croatia, Greece