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CarMasterTM

SIPP Code Expansion Project UpdateApril 2006

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What is SIPP?

• SIPP = Standard Interline Passenger Procedures• IATA recommended car industry specifications for car

type coding for use between car rental suppliers and Global Distribution Systems. For example:

Size Category Transmission Air Conditioning

ECAR

With Air Conditioning Automatic Transmission 2/4 Door Economy

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Reasons for Enhancement

• Existing SIPP recommendations created several years ago—becoming outdated for makes and models available today.

• Industry-led effort to agree on new coding for car suppliers, global distribution systems and online booking sites.

• Enable additional content and more consistent categorization across suppliers.

• Enable agents to more easily shop and compare.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Global Enhancement– Supported in Apollo and Galileo– Available to agents and consumers– Focalpoint user access immediate after load date– All other applications require a release upgrade to utilize

functionality

• Supplier Participation– Applicable to Inside Availability participants only– CarMaster Maintenance Database will not be enhanced to

support new SIPP car type codes– Supplier implementation timelines will vary; some ready

before others.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Car Type Matrix – Maintain existing 4 character format

•1st character defines size•2nd character defines category•3rd character defines transmission•4th character defines whether vehicle has air conditioning or not

– Enhance meaning of 3rd character to add drive– Enhance meaning of 4th character to add fuel/power

source– Increase number of variations possible within each

position of 4-character car type code.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Agent Search Qualifiers– Continue support for optional wildcard size + specific

category search, e.g., *V = Any Size Van– Introduce new, optional pseudo car code search qualifier.

Examples include:•AHYB = Any Hybrid•APUP = Any Pick-Up•AEIG = Any eight passenger Van or SUV•AFWD = Any 4-Wheel Drive or All Wheel Drive•AGRN = All ‘green’ vehicles, e.g., Hybrid, Electric, LPG, Hydrogen and Multi-Fuel

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Upsells– Apply when a specific size has been included in the

request.– Identified by pillow (¤) in Focalpoint; up-arrow () in

Viewpoint.

• Alternates– Apply when a specific category has been included in the

request.– Identified beneath Alternate Car Type Header in supplier

rate response

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Increase maximum number of car types in supplier availability response

– Current maximum of 99 is removed; all applicable rates will be displayed

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Mixed Rate Types Allowed– Remove Daily as the default rate type on multi-company

response.– Supplier determines best rate type to return based upon

pick-up and drop-off dates/times, e.g., Daily, Weekly, Weekend or Monthly.

– Rate type indicator for each rate added to Availability response.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Enhance Rate Rules (CAV) Response– Enable supplier to return Maximum Seating Capacity and

Maximum Pieces of Luggage Data applicable to car type/rate.

• Enhance Customer Itinerary– Enable the inclusion of the transmission/drive and

fuel/power source on the customer itinerary.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Retire Car Type Availability Transaction (CAA)– Discontinue in Focalpoint– Begin phase-out of CAA in all other applications**

**Complete discontinuation in non-Focalpoint applications still being pursued at time of this writing.

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SIPP Code Expansion – Overview

• Enhancement Load Date– Tentative Q4 2006 or Q1 2007