JPS5819112B2 - How to issue tickets for groups - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for efficiently issuing tickets for group passengers at airports, railways, etc.

Conventionally, railway ticket sales have been carried out online using solid equipment such as computers, which means that not only normal individual ticket sales but also group tickets are automatically assigned seats and issued in a predetermined number of tickets. ing.

However, at airports, tower tickets, etc. are mainly issued offline, and in ticket issuance operations that require the entry of seat numbers on tower tickets, etc., pre-printed tickets are prepared and seats allocated in advance. A number corresponding to the number of tickets is written on the face of each ticket, the predetermined number of tickets is confirmed, and the number is then handed to the representative or each person making up the group.

Therefore, apart from individual customers, especially for group customers, the advantage of ticket issuance in that group customers only need to use the same information except for the seat number and destination etc. is not taken advantage of, which forces them to do a lot of troublesome work. It was getting worse.

The object of the present invention is to create a ticket for a group of passengers, in which sheets are sequentially filled out according to a certain section of a vehicle such as an airplane, based on the data originally input.
The object of the present invention is to provide a method for automatically issuing documents without using complicated computers such as those used in railway online systems.

□ Hereinafter, a case in which the method according to the present invention is applied to the sale of airport group tickets will be specifically explained with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows the operation panel for issuing airport tickets. 1 and 2 are display lamp groups. Display lamp group 1 displays the contents of the ticket such as destination, route, flight number, etc., and the other display lamp group 2 is power on, ticket paper is out,
Displays abnormal conditions during the ticket issuing process.

5 is a keyboard, and 1 is selected in a range appropriately determined based on the number of people constituting one group according to the seating arrangement of the applicable aircraft.
Specify the starting and ending sheet numbers of the sheets forming the block.

Aircraft seat numbers can take various forms depending on the aircraft model, and there are some arrangements in which the rows and columns match and some in which they do not, but in any case, as will be explained later, the seat numbers are reserved seats or the facilities of the vehicle. It is possible to count by excluding in advance the seat-absent areas where no seat exists in that area due to the presence of the area, or to divide the area into several sections and select the rows and columns so that they match.

For ease of understanding, consider now the case shown in the second diagram, where the distribution of seats in an aircraft is in rows and columns, with every row being the same throughout.

Therefore, the case of issuing group tickets for 54 people, for example, will be described in detail below based on the flowchart of FIG. 3.

First, as shown in Fig. 3, a preparatory operation F1 is performed in which the destination, route, flight number, etc. of the group passenger is displayed on the display lamp 1 by operating the predetermined push buttons on the keyboard 5. As an operation, an operation F2 for specifying the first sheet and the rear end sheet is performed using the keyboard 5, and the storage device (
Perform operation F3 to store the leading sheet and trailing sheet at predetermined addresses (not shown), then perform operation F4 to press the print start button on the keyboard 5 to print the sheet number and issue a single ticket. Operation F5, operation F6 for adding 1 each time a ticket is issued, and operation F7 for matching the added count value in operation F6 with a predetermined number of issued tickets determined by the first sheet and the last sheet are sequentially performed.

In this operation F7, if there is a match No, ticket issuing operation F5
are performed sequentially, and if the match is Yes, the ticket issuing operation F5 is stopped and the issuing of the desired number of tickets is completed.

That is, seat numbers 27A, 32A, 2 shown in FIG.
7I.

When issuing a ticket for the 54 sheets surrounded by 32I, if you operate the keyboard 5 on the first sheet 1-27A and the last sheet 32I, the sheet number 27A...27I,
28A...28I, 29A...32I
Tickets will be printed and issued in this order.

At this time, when the issuance of the ticket corresponding to seat 27I is completed, it is restricted to the terminal seat (32I) and returns to 28A.

In this way, tickets for 54 members of one group surrounded by sheets 27A, 27I, 32A, and 32I are consecutively issued, and 54 tickets are clearly displayed on the display device 4.

That is, based on the designation of the first sheet 27A and the last sheet 32I by well-known technical means, in the range defined by the two rows 27.32 and the two columns A and I, the row 2
The program is set so that tickets are issued sequentially from column A to column 2 for each row from 7 to row 32, and tickets are issued from the first sheet to the last sheet.

On the other hand, due to the structure of the aircraft, aircraft seats are rarely arranged in an orderly manner as shown in Fig. 2, and are sometimes arranged with some seats missing in the shape. There are many.

However, it goes without saying that processing can be easily performed by dividing the desired number of tickets into several sheet groups, performing the ticket issuing operation as described above, adding up the total number of tickets, and displaying the total number of tickets.

Alternatively, seat absence numbers such as reserved seat numbers existing in the seat rows of the portion surrounded by two rows and two columns may be subtracted and issued by a storage circuit.

In other words, seats on aircraft are not necessarily arranged in a rectangular shape as shown in Figure 2, but are arranged in a configuration as shown in Figure 4, where block C is for one group of passengers. When the sheets are selected from all the sheets, they are divided into blocks C1 and C2 arranged in a rectangular shape.

Then, in the block C1, the first sheet 69I and the last sheet 1-70K are specified, and in the block C2, the first sheet 68L and the last sheet 70M are specified by the keyboard 5.

The total sum of these blocks C1° and C2 corresponds to the number of passengers in one group.

Furthermore, when one group of seats for group passengers is selected in a U-shape, the block is divided into three parts and the ticket issuing operation is obtained based on the same principle.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, when selecting a block D that includes a sheet that has already been issued (indicated by a symbol ■ in the drawing) or a block E that lacks a sheet, the first sheet 2a is selected for the block D. The end sheet 5F and the start sheet 3C and end sheets 1-4E in block E are designated using the keyboard 5.

Along with this, the sheet of block E has been deleted from the storage device, so in block D, the sheet of unreleased vernal equinox (
Tickets will be issued one after another based on the same principle as described above.

At this time, the program may be set so that sheet 3F is issued after sheet 3B when block E is specified.

As described above, the method for issuing each ticket for a group passenger according to the present invention uses a very simple method that does not use any expensive computers currently available online for railways, for example, by issuing a desired number of group passenger tickets for an airplane according to the seat number. Tickets are issued after specifying them.

Based on such a method, ticketing efficiency can be significantly improved compared to the conventional method of issuing tickets by specifying seats one by one, especially when issuing offline airline tickets, which have many common entries except for the seat number. This is especially true when it comes to issuing tickets for airplanes with many group passengers.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the arrangement of aircraft seats, FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the invention in detail, FIG. 4 is a diagram, and FIG. 5 is another arrangement of aircraft seats. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the structure. 1.2...Display lamp group, 4...Display section, 5...Keyboard.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Set in advance the necessary common information such as destination, transit flight number, etc. excluding seat numbers, and - group members in an area surrounded by one square or rectangle or an area surrounded by multiple squares or rectangles. Corresponding to the number of seats in the range obtained by adding and subtracting the number of seat groups in a vehicle such as an airplane, specify the first and last seat numbers of each seat group using the keyboard, and arrange them in a square or rectangular shape between them. Tickets for group passengers are issued by sequentially adding the seat numbers excluding the seat numbers in the range corresponding to subtraction out of all the seat numbers set in advance in addition to the common items set in advance. Ticket issuance method for group customers.