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What is Airline Revenue Accounting

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PASSENGER REVENUE AIRLINE

SERVICES ACCOUNTING FINANCIAL
SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM

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- Ticketing - Registration of sales and usage - Balance sheet accounts
- PNR creation - Audit for data accuracy - Income statement accounts
- Utilisation of the coupon - Valuation of segment and service
- Management of interline billing
- Monitoring of airline revenue
- Account all financial transactions
- Feed to Airline financial system

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How can we describe Passenger Revenue
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Accounting
_ Passenger Revenue Accounting is a system that
helps airline to manage their passenger revenue

_ PRA System manages sales, usage, interline,

reporting and accounting of any accountable
document
(For example, ticket, EMD, FIM) for passenger-
related services

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_ PRA system feeds the processed & accounted
information to the airlines financial system (GL, AR &
AP)

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Functional Overview
Reference Data & Business Rules

PASSENGER REVENUE ACCOUNTING

CORE MODULES
Sales and
Sales Usage Interline
Proration Accounting Revenues
Registration Registration Billing
Reporting
Recording of all Recording of all Management of
flights and flights and interline Preparation and Monitoring of
Registration of
services used & services used & invoices posting to airlines revenue,
all sales from all
Flight Flight Airlines receivables &
channels Inward &
reconciliation reconciliation financial system payables

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Outward billing

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ALTEA SUITE
overview 1A Alta
Airline Specific
Airline Specific (GSA)
EMS
Currency, Taxes, 1A ETS Inventory
Interline Reference Data
Reference Data Agency Sales
Invoices ATPCO Fares Alta
(Inward) DCS

Amadeus Revenue Accounting

Logon Security Server Reference Data Amadeus Business Rules

CORE MODULES
Sales Usage Interline
Proration
Registration Registration Billing

Agency memo management

Accounting Reporting
Tax, charges and fees management

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Partnership management

Task and notification management

OPTIONAL MODULES

Interline
Airline Financial
Airline Financial Invoices BSPlink Airline System
Airline System
(Outward) BSPlink
System
System ARC Memo
Memo (e.g. data
(e.g. data warehouse)
warehouse)
ARC
Manager
Manager
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Amadeus Revenue Accounting

processes

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Systems registers sales
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-1- An agent -2- The sale -3- The sale -4- -5- The sales
issues a information is information is The offline data is
ticket/EMD sent and stored synchronized in reporting files reconciled
within 6X real-time are acquired
with Amadeus
ETS/EMS Revenue
(HOT/CAT)
Accounting

Acquisition of accountable documents

Web
Offices
Sales Reports
Airline Amadeus Revenue

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Offices Real-time Accounting
1A
Travel EMS
Sales Registration
Agencies 1A
ETS

Offline
Note, in this context:
6X is validating carrier of the ticket
IATA HOT/CAT Files
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-6- The sale is registered -7- Total ticket fare amount -8- Commission & Tax
in Amadeus Revenue is prorated calculation
Accounting & data
validation completed
Real-time calculation of coupon
value Calculation of commission
Support all proration methods Tax assignment at coupon level
(Straight Rate, Provisos, SPA)
Access to the proration trace
and to PMP information

900 EUR
Amadeus Revenue Amadeus Revenue Airline 6X

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Accounting Accounting
Sales Registration Proration
600 EUR Airline ZZ
Industry Rules Special Prorate
(Straight Rate / Agreement (SPA)
Provisos)

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usage module
-9- The flight -10- Usage information -11- Usage information -12- Usage
closes is sent and stored is forwarded in information is
within ETS/EMS real-time to received from DCS
Amadeus Revenue
Accounting
Real-time acquisition of usage Acquisition of the DCS
Validation of the data usage data
Automated reconciliation of Automated reconciliation
the sales and usage data of DCS and usage data

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Amadeus Revenue
Real-time Accounting
1A
EMS
Usage Registration
1A
DCS ETS
Automated FIM pre-population
Alta DCS Automated coupon expiration
management

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Case 1: Outward Billing

-13a- The usage is -14a- The bill is automatically -15a- The bill is sent to ZZ
registered and ticket is generated to recover the money
prorated due (outward billing)
Immediate generation of outward bills
Designed to support the latest
industry standards (SIS)

900 EUR Airline 6X

600 EUR Airline ZZ

ZZ owes
Amadeus Revenue 900 EUR
Accounting 6X Amadeus Revenue
6X
ZZ

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Sales Registration Accounting 6X 6X
Proration Revenue Accounting
Interline Billing
Usage Registration
900 EUR

Note, in this context:

- ZZ is validating carrier of the ticket and thus owes the money of 6X
- 6X is operating carrier in the ticket and thus requests the money to ZZ

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Case 2: Inward Billing

-13b- The usage is -14b- ZZ generates the -15b- The bill is received
registered and ticket bill and sent it to 6X by 6X and
is prorated to recover the automatically checked
money due for validity and
accuracy (inward
billing)
Immediate validity and accuracy checks
of the incoming invoice
900 EUR Airline 6X Designed to support the latest
industry standards (SIS)
Automated creation of rejection memos
600 EUR Airline ZZ
6X owes
Amadeus Revenue 600 EUR
Accounting
Accounting 6X Amadeus Revenue
6X ZZ

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Sales Registration
Revenue Accounting Accounting 6X6X
Proration
Usage
Interline Billing
Usage Registration
Registration

600 EUR

Note, in this context:

- 6X is validating carrier of the ticket and thus owes the money of ZZ
- ZZ is operating carrier in the ticket and thus requests the money to 6X

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Online Sales and Revenue Reporting

-20- The sale/usage -21- Real-time reports are
is registered accessible at any time

Online tickets and service reports:

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Unearned/Planned/Earned revenue
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Interline reports
Consolidated views:
o
From PNR to E-ticket/EMD history
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Between E-ticket and associated
services revenues
o
At transaction level

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Amadeus Revenue Amadeus Revenue
Accounting Accounting
Sales Registration Sales & Revenues
Usage Registration Reporting

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