TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
This article will explain the regular air search on the Thomalex platform. It will help you to understand all features, buttons, and options that you will have on the platform and where you can activate them.
Setup
If you want to enable Air Module on the Thomalex platform you can do that by going to the Travel Group Settings and enabling Air search. When the website is created on our platform, by default air search will be enabled:
Image 1. Activation of Air module
When it is enabled, the Air module looks like this:
Image 2. Air module
Now we will explain all of the buttons and options that you have on the Air module.
First that you will see is the flight types. As you can see in the image below you have three flight types Round Trip, One Way, and Multi Destinations.
Image 3. Flight Types
Each of these flight types can be activated/deactivated in the Air Travel Settings:
Image 4. Activation of Flight Types
Round Trip
If you are using the round trip, you can perform the search in two ways. Both ways can be activated in the Air Travel Settings. You can perform a search as a round trip and as one way combinable:
Image 5. Fare search option
When both of them are activated as you can see in the image above, on the flight module you will have two buttons for search, Search roundtrips and Search One Ways.
Image 6. Search buttons
In this article under the section How to use it we will explain the difference between these two and how you can use it.
Multidestination
Multi-destination search needs to be activated as we explained at the beginning of this article.
The multi-destination search is able to handle 6 legs with 6 different cities and 2 flight interruptions. You can choose what is the max number of destinations that travelers can search for. You can set that under Air Travel Settings:
Image 7. Maximum Number of Multi Destinations Settings
By default, it will be set to 3 destinations.
Name of the trip
This field is free text. By default, this field will be activated.
Image 8. Name of the trip
If you do not want to have it, then under the Travel Group Settings you can disable it:
Image 9. Disable Trip Name on search engine
If it is enabled and visible on the search engine, this field is mandatory to be a field in order to perform a search.
Under the section How to use we will explain the purpose of it and how you can use it.
Select Trip Reason
The purpose of this option is to highlight the reason for the trip. It will be displayed as a list:
Image 10. Select Trip Reason
By default, you will have one trip reason created (Business). However, you can add as many as you want or you can remove this section from the search. If you have a trip reason created, selecting the trip reason is mandatory in order to perform a search.
Under the setting Create Trip Reason Codes administrators can add trip reasons, edit or delete:
Image 11. Create Trip Reason Codes Settings
If you click on the button Create Trip Reason Codes, you can add it to the list. The code is not mandatory to be entered but the description is mandatory:
Image 12. Create Trip Reason
After we click on Save the trip reason is created, and it will be visible in the list on the search page:
Image 13. New Trip Reason in the List
If you do not want to have Select Trip Reasonon the search page, you just need to delete all trip reason codes:
Image 14. Deleting Trip Reason Codes
After you delete all Trip Reason Codes, you will not have the Select Trip Reason field on the search page:
Image 15. Select Trip Reason removed
How to use it
Now we will explain the difference between a Round trip and a One-way combinable.
When you perform a search using the Search roundtrips button, the system will search for a bundle flight (package) where the provider will return to us results where the outbound and inbound flight is under one offer.
Image7. Search roundtrips results
In this case, outbound and inbound flights are put together as a bundle. After you open the fare family selection and select the combination of the flight that you want, the flights will be added to the shopping cart where you will be redirected.
Image 8. Selecting Round Trip Flight
On the other hand, if you perform a search using the Search One Ways button, the process is slightly different. Firstly, the system will search for outbound flights. As you can see in the image below, the system first offers you to select an outbound flight:
Image 9. Result page of One-way combinable search for the outbound flight
After you open the fare family for a flight that you selected, instead of having the button Add to Cart you will have the button Select:
Image 10. Selecting outbound flight
After you select it, the system will offer you the result for the inbound flight. Also, you will able to see which flight you have already chosen:
Image 11. Result of a One-way combinable search for the inbound flight
After you open the Fare family selection, now you will have the button Add to Cart:
Image 12. Selecting the inbound flight and adding it to the shopping cart
After you click on Add to Cart, both flights will be added to the shopping cart:
Image 13. Shopping Cart
Examples
Here we should create a few concrete examples of a concrete functionality. Not mandatory section but can be very useful for example if we are explaining policies, markups, cost centers, approval flows, ticketing time limit, etc... Here we can show how to make a concrete setup of a given scenario.
FAQ
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