Brochure QPXTravelDistrbutors

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ITA Softwares

Airfare Pricing &

Shopping System

QPX

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www.itasoftware.com


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Introduction

Flexibility

Customization

Automation

Reliability & Scalability

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DiscoverQPX


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A leader in airline pricing and shopping, ITA Softwares QPX offers a exible and

comprehensive airfare shopping solution. With QPX, travel companies can unleash

their creativity while signicantly increasing revenues and reducing distribution costs.

Deepest and thoroughly customizable search

Powerful comparison shopping across hundreds of airlines

Advanced shopping features that drive sales

Built entirely on open systems architecture

Industry-leading uptime and performance

Fast and easy integration with existing systems

Chosen by leading travel companies

ITAs QPX software lets us provide our customers with some of the most

competitively priced airline fares and schedules in the industry.

Sam Fulton, Senior VP Retail

Demand excellence.

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introduction


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One Click. All the Answers.

QPX, ITA Softwares ONE CLICK. ALL THE ANSWERS. technology, offers powerful comparison

shopping and limitless search exibility

QPX helps users make sense of their travel planning options. It evaluates billions of ight and fare combinations per query, letting

agents and travelers quickly zero in on the best price and tailored travel solution.

Provides thoroughly congurable searching:

Fare and/or schedule driven shopping

Time ranges, customizable from minutes to months

Every class of service

Multiple passengers and any passenger type

All public and private fares, including zone fares,

percent off, net fares, and at rate fares

All trip types such as one way, round trip, and multi-

city, including alternate airports

IATA checks and tax calculations for all countries

Any combination of single or multiple currencies

Single or multiple airline searches, including:

shopping-led, availability-led, and group

Provides comprehensive shopping across hundreds of

airlines

Returns lowest and most relevant fares

Easily handles the most complex search criteria

Calculates prices and checks availability for every

possible itinerary option

Offers highly exible date/calendar shopping

Supports advanced upselling strategies, including

branded fare search

Enables integrated optional services

Supports multi-destination/anywhere search, including

radius queries

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Flexible SearchParameters

Powerful

Comparison

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True Customization.

Anything is Possible.

Thoroughly congurable results

Through QPX, travel companies can customize their

presentation layer with virtually an innite range of options such

as the intuitive matrix style interface pioneered by ITA Software.

Offers ulimited congurations through an XML interace

Enables interactive graphical displays

Allows customization of preferences and denitions to

support all your marketing objectives:

Customer-dened business logic, including number of

options, mix of options, prioritization by type, order, and

more

Tailored messaging at the user interface, including point-of-

sale messaging, purchase restrictions, class

of service options, schedule alerts, and more

Targeted pricing for each market segment, point-of-sale,

channel, and even customer

Denable time and price bands

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customization


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QPX makes it possible for us to offer the compelling and advanced

features that our users demand.

Paul English, CTO & Co-Founder

Multiple Destination Shopping

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customization

Interactive Graphical Display

Think big. Be creative. Differentiate your online experience.

Intuitive Results Filters


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customizatio

ITA Softwares cutting-edge technology and industry expertise have helped

us revolutionize the way air rewards are offered to our members.

Andre Hebert , VP Technology and e-Business

Multiple Destination Reward Shopping


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automation

ITAs ReShop is an innovative, automated ticket reprice/

reissue feature

Returns a complete set of fully priced and availability-

checked shopping alternatives for partially own and wholly

unown tickets

Compares new and existing itineraries, automatically

recalculating applicable fare differences

Enables more accurate and efcient collection of fees and

fare differences, reducing the risk of costly debit memos

Reduces interaction times to less than one minute, yielding

signicant labor savings per reprice/reissue transaction

Integrates full QPX shopping capabilities

Supports shopping and pricing of multiple passengers and

passenger types, simultaneously

Allows user to reprice and shop for revenue and reward

tickets

Implements pricing principles (US/CA and international),

public and private fares, fare by rule and constructed fares,

and all sales restrictions

Uses exible industry standards like ATPCO Cat 31 and Cat

33 to express airline business rules

Calculates taxes, multiple currencies, penalties, fees, and

fare differences

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Automate, Simplify, and Cut Costly Debit Memos

Choose ReShop and manage complex transactions with ease

ReShop leverages the power of QPX to deliver comprehensive pricing and shopping for post-ticket transactions. It can be

used stand-alone or in combination with QPX, and is based on the same innovative technology. Discover why our QPX product

suite is a leader in airfare pricing and shopping.


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Flexible Itinerary Changes

Clear Change Summary


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Proven Ease of Integration,

Scalability, and Speed to Market

Flexible, fast, and reliable deployment

QPX helps travel companies deliver consistency,

scalability, and rapid deployment. With a single

implementation, ITA customers can use QPX to support

multiple direct channels (consumer websites, agent and

corporate customer portals, mobile applications, and other

touch points).

Proven deployment process with rapid time to market

Scales without limit to support any number of concurrent

users and transactions

Delivers all information necessary to book and ticket any

itinerary directly in your inventory system

Quickly and easily integrates with existing systems

Open system architecture enables unmatched exibility

reliability & scalab

Reliable Systems and Service

ITAs superior service offering speaks for itself

ITA Software offers proven reliability, supporting large

numbers of transactions and delivering mission-critical

information without skipping a beat. QPX processes

billions of production search transactions each year.

Operating as a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, ITA

Software delivers industry-leading service levels with a

24x7 in-house network and a multi-city, redundant opera-

tions center that controls, monitors, and supports every

aspect of the application.

ITA maintains over 10,000 processors across three

separate data centers. While ITAs Systems Operation

Center (SOC) is located at their Cambridge,

Massachusetts, USA headquarters, ITA can operate

its SOC from any one of the three data centers.

Offers industry-leading uptime and performance

Offers three separate data centers

24x7 support at all three data centers

ITA data centers are managed by 150+ IT professionals

Includes regular software upgrades, incorporating indus-

try changes, updates, and customer enhancements


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www.itasoftware.com

ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com) is a leading provider of innovative solutions for the travel

industry. ITAs QPX, a comprehensive airfare shopping system, is used by leading airlines

and travel distributors worldwide including Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Bing, Continental

Airlines, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Southwest Airlines, TripAdvisor, United Airlines, US Airways,

Virgin Atlantic Airways, and others. ITA is now offering a completely new airline passenger

reservation system to improve the customer experience. On July 1, 2010, ITA announced a

merger agreement to be acquired by Google. ITA was founded by computer scientists from MIT

and is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., USA.

Corporate Headquarters

141 Portland Street

Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

+1. 617.714.2100

EMEA & India Regional Ofce

Herengracht 124-128

1015 BT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

David Peller, Regional Vice President - EMEA & India+31 (0)6 4150 8856

Americas Regional Ofce

10 S. Riverside Plaza

Suite 1960

Chicago, IL 60606 USA

Tim Fahy, Regional Vice President - Americas

+1. 617.714.2570

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