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Old Mar 8, 2007 | 9:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Guy Betsy
It is news when BA can restrict the above to CERTAIN TAs.. maybe to those who don't sell a lot of BA flights, or sell only discounted tickets.

Restricting based on location is one thing, that is inventory control. But to restrict sales, or prohibit viewing even based on any particular agency ID?
Those are all attributes of the POS field:
"How does it work?

* simple pre-formatted update panels help you define rules directly in our system that govern display of your flights in our principal displays
* rules can influence availability and schedule displays to individual travel agencies or affect the sales process
* you can define availability according to Point-of-Sale or offer different levels of availability according to a particular feature of the ‘requester’ (country, corporation, IATA, etc)
* you can suppress all sales to a specific office
* Availability Management can be used either as a static rule within our system or in conjunction with Amadeus Dynamic Availability (please see Amadeus Dynamic Availability for more information)"
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