Passenger Tariff refers to the comprehensive set of rules, charges, standardized fare-related definitions,and principles governing how passenger airfares and related fees are structured, calculated, and applied globally by airlines so that airlines, travel agents, and regulatory bodies share a common understanding across the network.
PASSENGER TARIFF and PTCCM
The IATA Passenger Tariffs Conference Composite Manual (PTCCM),formerly the Passenger Air Tariff (PAT).The PTCCM organizes general rules into five core pillars that govern global Airline Pricing and Ticketing.05 Core pillars:-Common Industry Definitions,Mileage Principles,Fare Construction Principles,Common Currency Application,Interline Baggage Acceptance Rules.
Common Industry Definitions-IATA RESOLUTION 012- Glossary of Terms
Add-On — an amount used only to construct an unspecified through fare.
Adult — a person who has reached his/her 12th birthday as of the date of commencement of travel
APEX — Advance Purchase Excursion Fares
Cancellation Penalty — a charge specified in a fare rule that is forfeit in the event ticketed transportation is cancelled voluntarily by a passenger
Constructed Fare — unspecified through fares created by 1. the use of add-ons,2. two fares shown as a single amount in a fare calculation and shown as ‘C
Excess Baggage Charge — Charges applied to baggage checked in excess of free or paid baggage allowance.
Exchange — The issuance of a new ticket for a totally unused ticket necessitated by a change to the carrier, flight, date, class of service or sector of the first flight coupon of the ticket
Fare, Applicable — for fare construction purposes, a fare which is established after the application of all fare construction calculations, e.g. excess mileage fare, higher intermediate fare but excluding related,charges e.g. amounts to be annotated with ‘S’ or ‘Q’
Fare Component — a portion of an itinerary between two consecutive fare construction points. If the journey has only one fare component, the points of origin and destination are the only fare construction points
Fare Construction Point-the terminal points of a fare component (these are also termed fare break points)
Round Trip — travel from a point to another point and return to the original point via the same global indicator, comprising two fare components provided.
Child — a person who has reached his/her second birthday but not his/her 12th birthday as of the date of commencement of travel.
Infant — a person who has not reached his/her second birthday as of the date of commencement of travel .
Bankers Selling Rate (BSR) — the rate used for purposes of converting fares and other charges in one currency in exchange for one unit (or units) of another currency. The industry source for these exchange rates is the IATA Consolidated Exchange Rates (ICER) as outlined in Resolution 024e
Excess Baggage Charge — Charges applied to baggage checked in excess of free or paid baggage allowance.
Stopover — when a passenger arrives at an intermediate point and is scheduled to depart later than 24 hours after arrival (local time)
Traffic Document — ticket, EMD or any other accountable passenger traffic document
Transfer — a change from the service of one carrier to another service of the same carrier (online transfer)or to the service of another carrier (interline transfer).
Ticket — the document issued by or on behalf of the carrier as described in PSC Resolution 722.PSC- Passenger Standards Conference(PSC )
Interline Transfer — transfer from the service of one carrier to the service of another carrier.
Journey — origin to destination of the entire ticket
Normal Fare — any fare designated as a normal fare.
Pricing Unit — a journey or part of a journey which is priced as a separate entity, i.e. is capable of being
ticketed separately
Rebooking — a change to the reservations data without a change of ticketed points
Reissue — the issuance of a revised ticket necessitated by a change to other than the first flight coupon of the ticket or a change to other than the carrier, flight, date, class of service or sector of the first flight
coupon of a ticket.
Rerouting — any change to ticketed pointsSpecial Fare — any fare other than a normal fare
IATA RESOLUTION 735 PERIOD OF VALIDITY PSC(46)735
RESOLVED that, unless otherwise specifically provided in the applicable fare rules:
- The period of validity for tickets issued at one way, round or circle trip fares shall be one year from the date of commencement of travel, or, if the first flight coupon is open-dated, and/or unused from the date of issue thereof.
- Where one or more portions of a ticket involves an excursion or other special fare, having a shorter period of ticket validity than indicated above, such shorter period of validity shall apply only in respect to such excursion or special fare transportation.
Note for paragraphs 1 and 2 above:
Due to the extraordinary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines may be extending the ability to display and to action (exchange, reissue, refund) tickets beyond the standard ticket validity based on their own business rules. Such extension will not persist beyond their stated policy.
- For tickets submitted for reissue, the period of validity of any new ticket issued will be limited to the expiry date that would have been applicable had the new ticket been issued on the date of sale of the original ticket.
- Travel under each flight coupon whether related to a normal or special fare, must be scheduled to commence before midnight, local time at the airport of departure, of the date of expiry shown on such flight coupon.
- For tickets submitted for exchange, the period of validity of the new ticket issued in exchange will be one year from the new date of commencement of flight travel or if open-dated and/or no portion of the ticket is used, one year from the date of new ticket issue.
Note: Expired validity tickets are not eligible for exchange or reissue.
Example 1: For a totally unused ticket issued 08JUN11 when such ticket is presented for exchange on 06JUN12 for travel commencing 07JUN12, such ticket will have a validity of 07JUN13 based on the new date of commencement of travel for a ticket with a one year validity.
Example 2: For a totally unused ticket issued 08JUN11 with a one year validity when such ticket is presented for exchange on 09JUN12 for travel commencing 10JUN12 such ticket is expired and may no longer be accepted for further exchange.
Example 3: Totally unused ticket issued 08JUN11 with a one year validity. When such ticket is presented for exchange on 08JUN12 for travel commencing 12OCT12, such ticket will have a validity of 12OCT13
based on the new date of commencement of travel for a ticket with a one year validity.
IATA Resolution 017f–Change on 1st flight coupon–Exchange
SECTION C-TOTALLY UNUSED TICKETS
- Voluntary changes to the first flight coupon (Exchange)
a) when a passenger requests a change to the carrier, flight, date, class of service or sector of the first flight coupon, a new ticket must be issued
b) the new fare, and related charges and fare construction checks shall be calculated from origin to destination of the new journey based on the fares applicable at the time of commencement of the new transportation and the IATA Rate of Exchange (IROE) at the time of exchange (current fares and IROE)
c) when determining Fare Value for exchange;
if cancellation penalty applies to fare(s) on the ticket being exchanged, per Resolution 024k, such penalty may be subtracted from fare value in original currency of payment, subject to fare rule provisions. The remaining amount is the fare value eligible for exchange.
d) when currency of Country of Commencement of Transportation (COC) of the new ticket is the same as the original currency of payment, subtract the fare value eligible for exchange from new fare amount.
(i) If the fare value eligible for exchange is greater than the fare of the new ticket, the residual may be applied towards any additional charges or refunded, subject to fare rule provisions.
(ii) If the fare value eligible for exchange does not compensate for the fare of the new ticket, the additional fare difference is converted to the new currency of payment, if different, at the current BSR.
Example: Exchange with additional collection. Original ticket (Exchange) currency of payment same as the currency of COC of the new ticket.
The Resolution 024a – Establishing passenger fares and related charges
IATA-RESO 302-The process to determine the Most Significant Carrier (MSC) is defined in IATA Resolution 302.
Resolution / Recommended Practice Title of Resolution / Recommended Practice
Resolution 012 (Amending)
Resolution 017f (Amending)-Exchange, Reissues and Refunds
Resolution 024d (Amending) Currency Names, Codes, Rounding Units and Acceptability of Currencies
Fare Calculation Mode Indicator (FCMI)
The identifier reflecting the method of pricing for this transaction as entered on the ticket/EMD.
0=Indicates that a fare has been system computer priced and that no change has been made to
the reservation between pricing and ticket issuance with no manipulation of the fare, or any data
filed with the fare, including taxes, fees and charges and applicable standard fare conditions.In accordance with the tariff resolution 100 and 101.
1 = Identifies a manually built fare.
2 = Identifies a fare that was auto-priced, but baggage and/or tax/fee/charge (TFC) data have been
manipulated.
3 = Identifies that the price has been determined by the carrier responsible for a product offer and
that the fare/fee calculation area is completed with the characters “/OP in place of the amounts
for all fare components.
4 = Identifies that the price has been determined by the carrier responsible for a product offer and
that the fare/fee calculation area is completed with amounts (or IT/BT) for all fare components.
5 = Identifies that the price has been determined by the carrier responsible for a product offer and
that the fare/fee calculation area is a combination of fare components with amounts (or IT/BT)
and amounts represented by the characters “/OP” as part of an offer price.
FCPI-Fare calculation Pricing Indicator
| 0 | System Computer priced (without any manual modifications except for the baggage allowance) |
| 1 | Manually priced |
| 2-9 | For individual airline/system provider use |
| A-Z | Undefined industry use |
A: Auto-priced airline private fare.
G: Auto-priced public fare.
M: Manipulated public or private fare
BSP-Data Interchange Handbook
Baggage Provisions Selection Criteria :-RESO-302
Unless otherwise specified the following baggage provisions selection process should apply for interline journey.
Where the one or more published baggage provisions differ between participating carriers, apply any common provisions and where provisions differ, the published baggage provisions of the Most Significant Carrier (MSC).
–US Rule for travel originating in or with the destination to either USA (U.S. DOT Regulation
399.87) or Canada (CTA Order 2014-A-158). The Governments of these nations require
that a different concept applies. This concept states that the provisions of the Marketing
airline on the first coupon of the over ticket shall apply to all flights its on that ticket.
1.Baggage provisions are defined as free baggage allowance rules and baggage charges
2. For the purpose of the baggage provision selection, the following 4-steps should apply for interline journey-
Step 1: In case the published baggage rules are the same amongst all carriers in an itinerary, then the same baggage rules should apply.
Step 2: In case one or more published baggage rules differ between carriers in an itinerary, then the published baggage provision of the MSC should apply. In case of code-share flights the Marketing Carrier rule is applied unless the Marketing Carrier’s published rules stipulate the use of the Operating Carrier rules.
Step 3: In case the MSC does not publish baggage rules for the journey, then the rules of the check-in carrier should apply.
Step 4: In case the check-in carrier does not publish baggage rules for the interline journey, then the rules of each Operating Carrier should apply, sector-by-sector.
The following table will assist in determining the MSC on an interline journey:
| 1st | For travel between two or more Tariff Conference areas | First carrier that crosses areas.i.e. TC3 to TC2 | |
| Detrming the Most Significant Carrier (MSC) | 2nd- | For travel within a Tariff Conference area: | First carrier that crosses from one sub-area to another i.e. from Africa to Europe |
| 3rd- | For travel within a Tariff Conference sub-area: | First international carrier |
| Example 1 – Travel between two different Tariff Conference areas | ||
| Itineary | IATA Tariff Conference Area | FBA policy |
| DAC-BG-YYZ | TC3 to TC1 | 02 Pc |
| YYZ-AC-YYC | Within TC1 | 01 Pc |
*DAC-BG-YYZ-AC-YYC,here BG crossess at forst TC3 to TC1 , so FBA shall be 02 Pcs for whole journey.
IATA Sub-area
| IATA Area | IATA Sub-Area |
| Area 1 (TC1) | USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, Central America and South America |
| Area 2 (TC2) | Europe, the Middle East and Africa |
| Area 3 (TC3) | South Asian Subcontinent, South East Asia, South West Pacific and Japan/Korea |
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Special Passenger Expecting Mother
| Pregnancy Stage | |
| (Weeks) | Pregnancy Details |
| 0-26 | Recommended to have a “fit for travel” document from her own doctor stating: ·LMP ·Number of weeks of pregnancy ·Single / Multiple pregnancy ·Is fit to travel |
| 27-32 | Required to have pre-approval from Biman Doctor. This must be obtained within 72 hours of intended travel through the Carriage of Medical Passengers form. |
| 32+ | Air travel is not permitted |
Stretcher STCR fare-
The applicable fares and stretcher charges should be:
i. Domestic Sector: – 06(SIX) Adult Normal one way Y/CL(YOW) BD fare.
ii. Regional Sector: – 06(SIX) Normal Adult one way Y/CL(YOW) fare.
iii. EX-DXB/AUH to BD: 06(SIX) Adult Normal one way Y/CL(YOW) fare.
iv. INTL SECTOR FARE :- 04(FOUR) Adult Normal one way Y/CL(YOW) fare.
FBA for Stretcher
Free baggage allowance (FBA) will be the number of fare paid