Dear Participant,
I am writing to advise you of ATPCO's ongoing work on an industry solution for the collection and distribution of itinerary and service fee tax information, and to encourage your participation in the product as it grows in the marketplace.
ATPCO (Airline Tariff Publishing Company), an airline-owned organization, is the leader in developing and implementing automated solutions for the collection and distribution of airline fare and fare-related data. In close cooperation with pricing systems, carriers, and industry organizations, we’ve designed numerous successful products for the industry. These include solutions for published and negotiated market fares, automated reissues, fuel surcharges, optional services, and a branded fares product.
By automating and centralizing the data collection and distribution process, ATPCO creates efficiencies for our customers by reducing human intervention, eliminating duplicative efforts, and improving data consistency and accuracy. However, we recognize that taxes are the key in the effort to achieve the goal of fully automating itinerary pricing.
Benefits of an automated tax solution include
- Improved time to market
- Reduced manual input of tax data by all systems
- Improved data coverage as several sources are consolidated via IATA
- Increased consistency in pricing results as more systems leverage this product
- Improved governance through a new centralized process designed and managed by IATA
ATPCO’s focus has been on current itinerary taxes, as well as the expanding list of services the airlines have been implementing in the marketplace, and we’ve been working closely with IATA Taxation to ensure that the data sourcing builds on today's data quality and coverage. Test and production data is now available to interested subscribers, and carriers can now instruct tax exceptions directly to ATPCO.
Contact us today to start realizing the benefits of this latest industry solution. We thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
Tom Gregorson
Senior Director
Product Strategy and Development
