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Revised 30 October 2007
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Table of Contents
Date
Who
Description
1.0
12/12/06
Carole Lee
Initial Version
1.1
10/30/07
Carole Lee
Number
General Information
1.1 Introduction
During normal airline operation, when a coupon status is marked as USED at PDC, the status is immediately
changed to USED in the host system, and the item is added to DETAIN so that a final status message will be sent
to the Other Airline. Nightly file maintenance (NFM) writes this data to tape for offline processing on a nightly
basis. The offline system produces a file from the flight flown data and forwards this data to the hosted carrier.
The Flown VCR File consists of a single flown or lifted flight coupon and contains data from the previous 48
hours. Both host and other airline validated electronic tickets will appear in one flown file.
Flown VCR files are based upon the operating carrier (not the validating carrier). Therefore, other airline VCRs
and validating carrier VCRs will both appear in the VCR Flown file.
Note: The appearance of the VCR Flown file in this document differs from the true format a carrier will receive.
However, the interpretation of the content of this file (as seen in the examples this document) is precisely linked to
placement of characters and spaces and is based on the actual file alignment.
Example:
C111760042675222008607232006MCI
C222760350012431008607232006MCI
LGA
LGA
YT TE14NX
YV VA7AN
SATMCIMCILGALGAMKEMKESAT
MCIORDORDEWR
11139DD154458I UA
1.3 Prerequisites
The Sabre hosted carrier must provide the following in order to receive the Flown VCR file:
The user name and a non-expiring password for server to which file will be transmitted
File Interpretation
Item
SABRE
Interpretation
Sabre (Note: If files are captured in Sabres test system, the file server identifier will
be 1S_)
_xx
Your Carrier Code
_VCR_FLOWN Flown Virtual Coupon Record File
_MAY17
Transmittal Date (this is only present on test files)
_20060517
Numeric Transmittal Date
_0754
US Central time the file was placed on the suppliers server to be transmitted to the
carrier
.CMP
File Format
The daily file transmittal time to your server may vary each day but will be received between the hours of 0400
and 1200 (based on US Central time). This variance can occur because of the combined quantity of incoming
data for all different carriers being served by the supplier.
File Content
2.1
TYPE
A
X
POSITION
1
2-5
6-13
COMMENTS
A
2 CHAR AIRLINE CODE PLUS
2 BLANKS FOR FUTURE USE
MMDDYYYY
TYPE
A
N
N
A
POSITION
1
2-5
6-13
14-17
COMMENTS
B
4 CHAR FLIGHT NUMBER
MMDDYYYY
3 ALPHA SEGMENT ORIGIN CITY
TYPE
A
N
POSITION
1
2-15
COUPON NUMBER
FLOWN FLIGHT
FLOWN DATE
FLOWN BOARD POINT
N
N
N
A
16
17-20
21-28
29-33
34-38
FLOWN CABIN
CLASS OF SERVICE
A
A
39
40-41
42- 54
COUPON 1 ROUTING
55-60
COUPON 2 ROUTING
61-66
COUPON 3 ROUTING
67-72
COUPON 4 ROUTING
73-78
SETTLEMENT
AUTHORIZATION CODE
INVOLUNTARY REROUTE
INDICATORS
79-92
93-94
INVOLUNTARY CARRIER
CODE
95-97
COMMENTS
C
3 CHAR AIRLINE ACCOUNTING CODE
10 CHAR TICKET (VCR) NUMBER
1 CHAR TICKET CHECK DIGIT
1 CHAR
4 CHAR FLIGHT NUMBER
MMDDYYYY
3 CHAR BOARD POINT CITY PLUS
2 BLANKS FOR FUTURE USE
3 CHAR OFF POINT CITY PLUS
2 BLANKS FOR FUTURE USE
1 CHAR CABIN CODE
2 CHAR CLASS OF SERVICE CODE
SECOND CHAR BLANK IF UNUSED
7 CHAR CLASS FARE BASIS CODE
6 CHAR TICKET DESIGNATOR
3 CHAR COUPON BOARD POINT PLUS
3 CHAR COUPON OFF POINT
3 CHAR COUPON BOARD POINT PLUS
3 CHAR COUPON OFF POINT
3 CHAR COUPON BOARD POINT PLUS
3 CHAR COUPON OFF POINT
3 CHAR COUPON BOARD POINT PLUS
3 CHAR COUPON OFF POINT
14 CHAR SETTLEMENT AUTHORIZATION
CODE
1 CHAR INVOLUNTARY CURRENT IND.
1 CHAR INVOLUNTARY ORIGINAL IND.
VALUE MAY BE I OR BLANK
3 CHAR INVOLUNTARY CARRIER CODE
TRAILER RECORD
One record is created for each file.
FIELD
RECORD TYPE
HEADER RECORD COUNT
TYPE
A
X
POSITION
1
2-7
8-15
COMMENTS
D
1 CHAR RECORD
5 CHAR HEADER
1 CHAR RECORD
7 CHAR DETAIL
TYPE B
RECORD COUNT
TYPE C
RECORD COUNT
FILE STRUCTURE
All fields will be fixed length and padded by blanks when necessary. Each record will begin on a new line.
YV
YT
YM
YT
YW
YY
YT
YQ
YY
YK
YV
YR
YR
YV
YR
YM
YT
YV
YQ
YK
YT
YT
YM
YK
YY
YT
YV
YV
YT
YQ
YQ
YM
YR
VRA7NRX
LGAMCIMCILGA
TRYX1DN/WMA MCILGALGAMCI
ME14NX
LGAMCIMCILGA
TE14NX
SATMCIMCILGALGAMCIMCISAT
WE07NX
LGAMCIMCISATSATMCIMCILGA
Y9X
MCILGALGAMCI
TE14NX
SATMCIMCILGALGAMCIMCISAT
QRA14NRX
LGAMCIMCILGA
Y9X
MCILGALGAMKEMKEMCI
KRA14NRX
MCILGA
BOSMCI
VRA7NRX
MCILGALGAMCI
RGRP
LGAMCIMCILGA
RGRP
LGAMCIMCILGA
VRA7NRX/GL20 MCILGALGAMCI
RGRP
LGAMCIMCILGA
ME0SPLN
LGAMCIMCILGA
TE14NX
SATMCIMCILGALGAMKEMKESAT
VA7AN
MCIORDORDEWR
45339DD154458I
QA3AN
MCIORDORDEWR
45339DD230005I
KRA14NRX/GL00MCILGALGAMCI
TRYX1DN/WMA MCILGALGAMCI
TRYX1DN/WMA MCILGALGAMCI
ME0SPLN
SATMCIMCILGALGAMCIMCISAT
KE07NX
MCILGALGAMKEMKEMCI
SA14NMX/INVOLMCILGALGAROC
45339DD460742
TE14NX
SATMCIMCILGALGAMKEMKESAT
VE7RHNX/MT15 LGAORDORDMCIMCIORDORDLGA 45339DD767061I
VE7RHNX
LGAORDORDMCIMCIORDORDLGA 45339DD880388I
TE14NX
SATMCIMCILGALGAMCIMCISAT
QRA14NRX/MT15MCILGALGAMCI
QRA14NRX/MT15MCILGALGAMCI
ME0SPLN
LGAMCIMCILGA
RGRP
LGAMCIMCILGADB00253C0013552
UA
UA
UA
UA
AXX
07252006
FIELD
RECORD TYPE
AIRLINE CODE
TYPE
A
X
POSITION
1
2-5
6-13
FILE NAME
COMMENTS
A
XX and 2 blanks
2 CHAR AIRLINE CODE PLUS
2 BLANKS FOR FUTURE USE
07252006
MMDDYYYY
NEXT DAY FLOWN VCR
B008607232006MCI
FIELD
RECORD TYPE
FLIGHT NUMBER
TYPE
A
N
POSITION
1
2-5
6-13
14-17
COMMENTS
B
0086
4 CHAR FLIGHT NUMBER
07232006
MMDDYYYY
MCI
3 ALPHA SEGMENT ORIGIN CITY
10
FIELD
RECORD TYPE
TICKET NUMBER
LGA
TYPE
A
N
POSITION
1
2-15
COMMENTS
C
011
16
FLOWN FLIGHT
17-20
0086
FLOWN DATE
21-28
07232006
29-33
MCI
1 CHAR
4 CHAR FLIGHT NUMBER
MMDDYYYY
3 CHAR BOARD POINT CITY PLUS
2 BLANKS FOR FUTURE USE
FLOWN OFF POINT
34-38
LGA
39
CLASS OF SERVICE
40-41
42- 54
VE7RHNX
55-60
LGA
61-66
ORD
67-72
MCI
73-78
ORD
INVOLUNTARY REROUTE
INDICATORS
79-92
45339DD767061
UA
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For code share processing where the Marketing Carrier wishes to settle the Flown coupon(s) with the Validating
Carrier, the Operating Carrier must include the Billing Carrier Airline Designator in the Change of Status message
to the Validating Carrier.
The Validating Carrier will generate a SAC code to the Billing Carrier received in the Change of Status message
and return this in the response to the Operating Carrier.
When the Operating Carrier receives the response message for the Change of Status Message including the
Settlement Authorization Code for the Billing Carrier, they will send an UAC message to the Marketing Carrier
including the SAC received from the Validating Carrier.
The interim coupon statuses shall be sent as information only and the Ticket/Coupon(s) to be settled shall have F
status and the SAC will be included in the coupon segment.
Coupon
FlightDate
Cabin/Cls
Cnnn213253191651049808072007LCA SVO YY Y
Routing
LCASVOSVOFRAFRASVOSVOLCA nnn019SQ0B916
Block space code share flights will not be reflected in the Operating Carriers same day flown file for this same
flight.
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