Rich Content & Branding offers travel agents:
- quick access to the benefits and restrictions of each price;
- easy access to other fares available for a flight combination;
- access to additional airline content like photos and services.
How to access Rich Content & Branding?
Rich Content & Branding is accessible via Fare Shopping (FS) with enhanced results and is available only for prices where the carriers involved have published branded content.
All prices with Rich Content & Branding available are shown as links like you see below.
Img 1: FS enhanced results
To not delay the FS command answer, the links are loaded asynchronously in the prices with Rich Content & Branding so they might take more time to be displayed than the FS results.
To access Rich Content & Branding of a certain price option just tap on the price link and the Rich Content & Branding area will appear.
You will then be able to:
1. see the Total Price;
2. see and change to other fares available knowing how much the fare will increase;
3. check the fare details of other segments;
4. access the fare summary and the benefits/ancillaries available.
Img 2: Rich Content & Branding - Fare screen
Fare Details
To access each fare details, just tap in the fare or its right arrow and access the fare summary and the benefits/ancillaries available.
To expand/retract summary or the ancillaries just tap on it.
Fare Summary shows:
1. the total fare for that segment (for all passengers)
2. fares per Passenger Type Code (PTC)
3. additional information
Img 3: Rich Content & Branding - Fare summary and ancillaries
Changing Fares
When you select a different fare, the difference between the originally selected fare and the one now selected is added to the price block and to total.
Img 4: Changing fares
Fare Quote
To continue to the Fare Quote, just tap on the total price or on the right arrow next to the total price.
Img 5: Continuing to fare quote
The Fare Quote screen will show the fare breakdown per PTC. You can expand Price Details and Baggage Information to access fare components and baggage allowance respectively.
Img 6: Rich Content & Branding - Fare Quote screen
Important Note: the price might suffer changes when arriving in this screen because the system makes a new Fare Quote for the selection made in the previous screen to offer the most accurate price possible (e.g.: one thing that might happen is that the new fare selection might incur in additional taxes which is only detected when the fare quote is made). Whenever the price (subtotal or taxes) suffers changes the info "Price was updated!" will appear.
Img 7: Price update when passing to the fare quote screen
Saving the Fare Quote
To save this Fare Quote, just tap on the total price or on the right arrow next to the total price.
If you already have names, the segments and the File Fare of the pricing option selected will be saved, if there are no names, only the segments of the pricing option selection will be booked.
Img 8: Booking segments
Returning to the Fare Shopping results
If you do not wish to proceed and use the pricing option being showed in the Rich Content & Branding screen and wish to return to the Fare Shopping results, just tap on the left arrow on the top left until you are back to the FS results.
Img 10: Returning to FS results
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