I‐96 Monetization of Graphical Place Reservation - UnionInternationalCheminsdeFer/OSDM GitHub Wiki

I-96: Monetization of Graphical Place Reservation

Description

Different ideas and requirements exist to monetize graphical place reservation.

It will be more and more common in the commercial transportation landscape to have selection fees on places. Eg. In the air industry it is very common to add a selection fee on places with extra room for the legs.

SelectionFee is a fee related to each specific place and is applied when a place is actively selected by the user. If the passenger is automatically placed here, the selectionFee will not be applied.

It is up to the provider system to calculate a selectionFee or not. The selectionFee will be applied by the IMS when placeSelections are provided in POST /bookings request.

Owner

Linus Johannson (Turnit)
Klaus Kovar (öBB)
Guillaume Fregosi (Wiremind)

Business Value

Carriers want to have the possibility to add revenue on some more attractive places on the service when customer select the specific place. If the place is not selected, automatically place assignments can book the place without any fee added.

The selection fee are added as a fee or ancillary (decision to take for the OSDM-group how to model it) to the reservation at booking time if placeSelections are provided the revenue for the carrier will increase.

Business Outcomes

It is a fact that Air, and Express bus industry increase the revenue with this feature and nothing say that that is not the fact for other modes of transport as well.

An example of this is Flix train. They have three different selectionFees in a normal coach.

The price is displayed on each individual seat in the place map.

Leading Indicators

Existing place reservation monetization schemes are supported by OSDM but it is not that flexible. Especially when working on a pre booked offer.

Nonfunctional Requirements

It is up to the provider to implement this feature. There is a risk to get longer response times for end point GET /availabilities/place-map when calculate the selection fee on individual places, but it is up to the provider system to manage this problem or not present the feature at all.

The feature is an optional add-on to the existing object PlacePosition.

Specification Effort

SMAll to MEDIUM, depending on how peppered the provider system is.

Analysis

Use Case 1 Carrier want to sell single row seats for a higher price in the 1:st class coach. At the same time, all seats in the first class coach shall have the same accommodationType and accommodationSubType to avoid presenting different 1:st class offers to the customer.

Other reasons to ask for a selection fee can be:

Table space
Wider seat
others.....