Lydia PSS

Lydia PSS

Passanger Sevices System, PSS

The Lydia PSS has many advantages for scheduled and charter airlines, providing a simple system solution. It is well suited to airline companies who need a system covering all the elements of passenger servicing at a cost-effective price point.

Lydia (PSS) Passenger Service Systems provide airlines with a complete passenger system solution. It is easy to use and streamlined, offering a bespoke range of services tailored to your airline. In addition, the system can grow as your airline grows as it’s scalable and cost-effective.

Lydia PSS key features include:

o Flight schedule/inventory management.
o Fare, tax, fee, and ancillary revenue management.
o Passenger reservation and e-ticketing database.
o Counter sales reporting.
o ability to hold flight and ancillary services
o internet booking engine for travel agencies
o B2C internet booking engine for consumer sales services and open XML API for online travel agencies.
o GDS interface; Type A interactive sell with GDS
o Charter management and tour operator PNL import.
o SSR module – for ancillary pre-sales.
o Airport, Web, Mobile Check-In
o APIS Data Management and Messaging.
o Real-time Revenue Management connections.
o Management information system.
o Revenue accounting functions & interface.
o Agency / corporate customer invoicing.
o Cloud Hosting System and Services

Inventory management & Pricing

The LYDIA PSS provides straightforward scheduling, fares and inventory management functionality for airlines and other applications as well. Our easy to use systems provide you with the capabilities you require for your business.

Schedules

Lydia Schedule Management supports direct flights and multi-stop services with up to 16 legs. In addition, it also supports connections with one or more transfer points (dynamic based on routing table and minimum/maximum connection time or defined using a connection builder). You can create schedule records manually or you can load schedules based on SSIM7 files. The schedule Information can be provided to OAG or Innovata either as SSIM7 files or SSM/ASM messages as required.

Fares, Taxes, and Fees

LYDIA PSS has a fully-integrated fare construction facility and stores the fare construction for each PNR. This includes all fare rules for review or overrides by agents (with sufficient security privileges as set up in the system) and modification or cancellation processing. Proration is supported through transit point fare value distribution and prorates factors (mileage or airline-defined values).

LYDIA PSS allows O&D-based fare definitions including:

o Industry-Standard and Carrier-Defined Passenger-Type Codes
o Fare-Based Agency Commissions (Either as A Flat Amount or Percentage)
o One-Way, Segment-Based, Half Round-Trip, Open Return Fares, And O&D Fares
o Change Fees and Cancellation Penalties as A Fixed Amount Or Percentage Per Segment/Passenger Based On Point Of Sale (With A Minimum Amount For Percentage-Based Fees)
o Logical Fare Class Combinability Restrictions Based on Time Before, Day Of The Week, Departure, And Minimum/Maximum Stay

B2C and Booking API

With mobile phones, tablets, and PCs all being used to access the internet and airline websites, LYDIA PSS provides a fully-responsive IBE which works with all devices. We recognize in this day and age, with over half of all searches being carried out on mobile, it is absolutely key to tailor the user experience according to the device being used.

Our system uses responsive technology to optimize the screen depending on whether the user is accessing it via a mobile, tablet, or PC.

Web Service Development and Customisation

Part of our implementation services offered is the development and Customization of all three booking engines for passengers, agency/tour operators, corporate sales, mobile-enabled content, and web check-in. LYDIA PSS uses an open API based on Web Services and XML if you choose to use a third party for web booking engine development.