Airlines form various partnerships, such as interline agreements, alliances, codeshares, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions, to enhance passenger appeal and optimize aircraft utilization. Figure 1 visualizes the comparative quality of these services against a true online service.
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The system provides the capability to define these airline partnerships along with corresponding traffic adjustment factors. Figure 2 introduces the Partner Factors tab, which allows you to add new records individually or collectively by uploading a CSV file with a matching table layout.
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The table for Partner Adjustments comprises the following fields:
- Airline1: The IATA code for one airline in the partnership.
- Airline2: The IATA code for the other airline in the partnership. For any given partnership, each airline pair needs to be entered only once, regardless of the order.
- Scope: Adjustments can be made at different levels:
- Systemwide: Indicated by “System” or “Network“, or left blank, this applies a general adjustment across all operations of the listed airline pair.
- Airport Level: Defined by the IATA code for the specific airport, targeting adjustments for trips originating or ending there.
- O&D Market Level: Specified by a combination of origin and destination airport IATA codes, which can be hyphenated (e.g., JFK-HNL) for clarity.
- Local_Factor: This factor adjusts the Quality of Service Index (QSI) score for non-stop flights. Values range from 0.0 to 1.0, where 1.0 equals the quality of a direct online service.
- Connect_Factor: This adjusts the QSI score for all connections, whether single or double.
- Partner_Type: A textual description of the partnership type, intended to clarify the underlying assumption for users.
- Notes: A space for any additional user notes regarding the adjustments.