Distribution cost forms a substantial portion of the overall overheads for an airline especially for carriers who still have significant ticket sales through their agency network as compared to their own website. The airline industry today is in a delicate situation - balancing income with ever increasing costs. Historically, in some regions, carriers have reported their distribution costs to be 70% of their net operating losses. Of these, operational and distribution costs can be well controlled by the airline. Airlines have been facing difficulties in reconciling voluminous BIDT files with GDS invoices and at the same time validate fictitious, invalid and duplicate bookings and prevent abuse of distribution systems. Zero Octa GDS / BIDT audit service effectively plugs leakages by verifying GDS Billings and BIDT saving airlines upto 2% of their distribution costs.
Zero Octa GDS / BIDT audit covers checking for duplications in billed transactions; billings not adhering to contracts and reconciling invoiced vs. booked transactions. This service also traps system abuses by agents who violate booking rules, preventing revenue leakages on account of duplicate bookings, test bookings, fictitious bookings, passive bookings, group bookings & cancellations and other such booking violations.
Business Benefits and Zero Octa Advantage
Track usage and have a better control over distribution costs.
Regularize charges by cost centers.
Analyze booking trends.
Design distribution strategy.
Assist in code share and alliance transformation model.
