Ultimate stopping place of the journey as shown on the ticket. When the word destination is used in a fare rule, general rule, or Rule 2, it will be necessary to determine the carrier's own definition.

The process of pricing and booking tickets within an airline's own internal environment, without using pricing systems or other intermediated industry data. This is most commonly handled through a carrier's website, but may also be done via a call center or at airport/city ticket offices.

See direct channel.

Fares that are published with a directional indicator (either on the fare record or footnote). Directional fares are usually international. See inbound and outbound.

A tag that determines the true origin and destination of a fare or application of supporting text. This allows data to be stored most efficiently and displays the data in its true order (from point A to point B or vice versa).

A tag used on the Record 1 or 2 to indicate that that Record 3 provision applies in a certain direction only.

A tag used on the Record 1 or 2 to indicate that the Record 3 provision applies from Location 1 to Location 2.

A tag used on the Record 1 or 2 to indicate that the Record 3 provision applies from Location 2 to Location 1.

A tag used on the Record 1 or 2 to indicate that the Record 3 provision applies for travel originating in Location 1.

A tag used on the Record 1 or 2 to indicate that the Record 3 provision applies for travel originating in Location 2.

The passenger travelling at a discounted fare that requires another full-fare passenger. Also referred to as accompanied passenger.

Data Interchange Standards Handbook, the definitive guide of file standards and specifications for the BSP HOT file.

Department of Transportation. A division of the US federal government that has governed and regulated the Airline Industry since absorbing the CAB on 1 January 1985. It regulates all international and US/CA fares and cargo rates.

Dynamic pricing engine.

A type of adjusted pricing where the DPE determines the optimal price at time of shopping/pricing and adjusts a pre-distributed price.

A type of adjusted pricing where the DPE determines the optimal price from a set of predefined (pre-distributed) prices. Airlines predefine and distribute all possible price points up front. These prices are only available when received in an applicable response from the airline’s DPE.

Decision support system.

A type of optimized pricing where airlines can increase possible price points from 26 to 182 by requiring inventory in two different reservation booking designators (RBDs).

A bundle of atomic products that is created (grouped together) at the time of shopping.

A subset of dynamic price adjustment, this change adjusts only the fare (not the total price including taxes and fees) according to certain criteria.