Alitalia is introducing a range of ancillary services on all their routes. These services will be implemented in the UK region for agencies using Galileo and Worldspan systems.
This Travelport communication is designed to help ensure that our customers are prepared for this implementation and to support you in the steps needed to book these services effectively.
Alitalia: did you know?
Alitalia is Italy's leading airline and among the leading players in European air transport.
The Alitalia network is based at 7 airports (Rome, Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Turin, Venice, Naples and Catania) to allow convenient connections between the Italian provinces and the main international and intercontinental destinations.
Through its network, Alitalia ensures widespread coverage of Italy and offers directs flights to major European capitals, the countries of the Mediterranean basin and the intercontinental markets with the highest rate of development for traditional and business travel.
Between 2012 and the beginning of 2013, Alitalia extended its network by adding new connections from Rome Fiumicino airport to Zurich, Abu Dhabi, Yerevan, Fortaleza and Prague. From the end of March 2013, Alitalia will continue to implement its international network expansion plan by activating 9 new international routes departing from its hub at Rome Fiumicino airport.
Alitalia will be implementing the following ancillaries on all its operated flights from Italy, and in a select group of other regions (US, Spain, UK, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Poland, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada, Egypt):
Additional baggage
Sports equipment
Lounge services
Fast Track
For a full list of Alitalia ancillary services that can be sold through Travelport, please refer to our Quick Reference Guides available here:
Galileo™ and Worldspan™
Introducing Electronic Miscellaneous Documents
As part of an industry wide, global initiative, airlines are increasingly introducing Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD) transactional functionality for ancillary (EMD-A) and stand-alone (EMD-S) fees.
EMD transactions will also replace all types of standard traffic miscellaneous documents embracing Miscellaneous Charge Orders (vMCO) and Multi-Purpose Documents (vMPD).
EMD-S transactions will replace vMCOs and vMPDs.
The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) e-services project, industry target, is to eliminate all existing miscellaneous documents and replace with EMD in BSP countries by the end of 2013.
With this important initiative gaining momentum, Alitalia are implementing EMD-S for Ticket Fee, Rebooking Fee International, Rebooking Fee Domestic and Group Deposits from March 2013.
For further information regarding the sales conditions for the ancillary services and for further company information, please refer to the Alitalia website: http://www.alitalia.com
IMPORTANT NOTE
EMD is a key component for the payment of this ancillary offering. To ensure an efficient electronic payment model, mandated by IATA, you may be required to adapt back office processes. Please see: Are you EMD ready?
MTB 31/03/2013
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