KR102269882B1 - Consumer-oriented air ticket reservation service method and system - Google Patents

Abstract

Conventionally, airline ticket pricing was based on supplier-oriented pricing determined according to international oil price and the individual circumstances of airlines. The supplier-oriented pricing increased the burden on consumers. Consumer make a reservation for a flight ticket six months and one year in advance to receive a high discount rate. In many cases, a consumer runs into trouble when his or her travel schedule is changed. In order to solve these problems, the present invention provides a consumer-oriented air ticket reservation service method. The method is characterized by comprising: a travel agency server access step in which a consumer accesses a travel agency server through the Internet using his or her consumer terminal; a travel schedule presentation step of presenting a travel schedule of the consumer, desired by the consumer, to the travel agency server; a price delivery step of accessing an airline ticketing server to read a reference price of a ticket that corresponds to the consumer's travel schedule, obtained from the travel agency server, and discount price data for each issuance period and transmitting the reference price and a discount rate to the consumer; a payment step in which the consumer accepts the reference price and discount rate that the consumer has received and makes a payment. According to the above configuration of the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a reasonable ticket purchase method to all of a consumer, an airline, and a travel agency which relays airline ticket sales and purchases between the consumer and the airline.

Description

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The present invention relates to a method of booking a ticket, and more particularly, to a service method for determining a ticket price.

Prior art prior to the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for dynamically determining the price of an item for dynamically determining the price of the item at the next price proposal time by reflecting the result of the response to the price proposal at the current time point. .

As another prior art, users can avoid uncertainty due to price fluctuations and the situation of not being able to secure seats by securing a ticket one year in advance, and can purchase a ticket at a lower price by making it possible to purchase a ticket early from the departure date. . In addition, you can avoid disadvantages such as cancellation fees that may occur if you purchase a ticket in advance and cannot travel due to a change in your personal itinerary. Accordingly, in order to minimize economic losses and conflicts related to air tickets that occur socially, the ticket crowdfunding system includes a demand forecasting module for predicting ticket demand; an aircraft rental module for renting an aircraft determined through the demand forecasting module; a crowdfunding module that receives an investment for the seat of the aircraft leased through the aircraft rental module; a personal information input module for determining whether to resell tickets purchased through the crowdfunding module and inputting traveler information; and a ticket sales module for reselling tickets not registered in the personal information input module.

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Another prior art is a service providing server that provides a differential sales service,

receiving product information, desired discount rate, and trading restrictions of the product for sale from the seller; providing the product information to a purchaser's terminal; receiving a desired purchase price from the buyer and allowing the buyer to participate in the purchase of the product; concluding a purchase contract when the sales restrictions are satisfied; determining a reference price from the distribution of desired purchase prices, and classifying the buyer into one of two purchasing groups classified based on the reference price according to the input desired purchase price; and granting the purchaser a right to purchase a product to which a discount rate is differentially applied according to a purchasing group to which the purchaser belongs.

Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-2020-0063066 Laid-open Patent Publication No. 10-2018-0136412 Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 10-2013-0036688

The present invention has been a supplier-centered pricing decision in which the existing airline ticket pricing is determined according to international oil prices and individual conditions of airlines. However, such supplier-oriented pricing increases the burden on consumers, and in order to receive a high discount rate, reservations for air tickets 6 months and 1 year in advance, and schedule changes, are often disappointing.

In other words, in order to receive a high discount rate for purchasing an air ticket, the consumer could choose to purchase a flight ticket by either reserving the ticket 6 months to 1 year before the schedule was confirmed, or by risking a high price and reserving the ticket once the schedule was decided. .

The present invention aims to provide a means for purchasing a ticket in a reasonable way for both the airline selling the ticket and the travel agency that connects the consumer and the airline in the middle.

The present invention provides the following problem solving means in order to solve the above problems.
consumer terminals; and
travel agency server; and
In the consumer-oriented ticket reservation service method using a consumer-oriented ticket reservation service system using an airline ticketing server,
a travel agency server connection step (S1) in which the consumer accesses the travel agency server through the Internet through the consumer terminal; and
a travel schedule presentation step (S2) of presenting a travel schedule for purchasing a ticket to the travel agency server by setting a period and number of consumers desired by the consumer; and
By connecting the travel schedule of the consumer to the airline ticketing server from the traveler server, the reference price and discount rate are delivered to the consumer who reads the base price and discount price data for each ticketing period that match the travel schedule of the consumer and delivers it to the consumer price delivery step (S3); and
and a payment step (S4) in which the consumer accepts and pays the reference price and the discount rate received by the consumer;

In the event that the ticket price rises from the above reference price due to a change in jet fuel price, only the portion of the price above the above reference price is borne by the consumer, and the difference between the above reference price and the above reference price is borne by the airline or travel agency that sold the ticket. A consumer-oriented airline ticket reservation service method.

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In addition, the payment amount to be paid in the payment step provides a consumer-oriented air ticket reservation service method, characterized in that the amount multiplied by the discount rate by the reference price.

In addition, it provides a consumer-oriented ticket reservation service method, characterized in that it further comprises a ticket issuance step (S5) of issuing a ticket after the payment step (S4).

In addition, the actual issuance is made in the ticket issuance step, and when the determined amount of the ticket exceeds the reference price, the consumer additionally pays only the excess amount of the reference price regardless of the discount rate It provides a service method for air ticket reservation mainly.

According to the above configuration, the present invention has an effect of providing a reasonable ticket purchase method to both consumers, airlines, and travel agencies that relay ticket sales and purchases.

1 is a method and system configuration diagram for a consumer-oriented airline ticket reservation service according to the present invention;
2 is a flow chart of a method for a consumer-oriented airline ticket reservation service according to the present invention;
Figure 3 is a method of determining the amount of a ticket reservation for a consumer-oriented of the present invention;
Figure 4 is a flow chart in the case of a change in the reservation of a consumer-oriented ticket of the present invention
Figure 5 shows the discount system of the advance deposit method of the present invention.

The operation and effect of the present invention will be described using the drawings as follows.

1 is an overall system connection diagram of the present invention. It is possible to connect the travel agency server and airline ticketing server in the consumer terminal. In addition, it is possible to connect from the travel agency server to the airline ticketing server. Consumers can directly access airline ticketing servers to reserve and purchase airline tickets, but the discount rate may differ from travel agencies that purchase tickets in bulk. In addition, depending on the price of jet fuel, the price may change at the time of reservation and at the time of actual ticket purchase. The present invention proposes a method of purchasing an air ticket in a manner in which the consumer bears all the price fluctuations due to these external factors, but the airline, the travel agency, and the consumer all share it.

It goes without saying that there may be a method in which the actual consumer sends his or her travel itinerary by phone or e-mail to the travel agency without using the consumer terminal and the travel agency handles it.

In general, airlines often apply a certain discount rate to travel agencies that book a lot of tickets in advance. This is a way for airlines to operate regularly by eliminating uncertainty about future reservations. However, as the price of jet fuel that changes from time to time cannot reflect this, the burden of raising fuel prices at the time of final issuance is passed on to consumers.
2 is a flow chart showing a general ticket purchase according to the present invention. Consumers purchase and use air tickets by specifying a period such as one year or half a year or three months. In general, companies that do business with other countries regularly visit overseas companies for a period of one year or a period, so this plan may be regular.
However, depending on the circumstances of the other party, the exact flight boarding date may be changed around a week or a month. In this case, there has been a problem in that it is necessary to accurately inform the schedule when making a reservation for an airplane, and to re-book it when the schedule is changed. Of course, payment and payment changes are necessary each time.

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In order to solve this inconvenience, the present invention has devised a method of purchasing a ticket by setting a period and number of times. The reference price between the departure point and the destination is set using information such as the departure time of the plane and the high and low seasons of the year, and the consumer purchases a ticket by applying a discount rate according to the flight departure schedule based on the reference price.

The ticket purchase may be in the form of a gift certificate. The above ticket includes the price of jet fuel. However, when purchasing an actual ticket, a difference may occur due to fluctuations in jet fuel prices. At this time, in the past, all differences in prices due to changes in jet fuel were all borne by consumers, but in the present invention, a method in which airlines, travel agencies, and consumers share them is used. In the event that the ticket price rises from the above reference price due to the change in the jet fuel price based on the above reference price, only the portion of the price above the above reference price is borne by the consumer, and the difference between the above reference price and the above reference price is the difference between the above reference price and the airline that sold the ticket Or the travel agency will pay for it. In this way, consumers can purchase air tickets economically without having to bear all the difference due to changes in jet fuel prices, and sellers will incur a cost to bear a certain amount due to changes in jet fuel prices, but they can purchase air tickets without burdening consumers too much. It provides a means to increase the flight reservation rate by providing opportunities. In addition, since the actual ticket issuance is made 3 days before the flight departure, the passenger's information can be updated until then, so the gift or exchange of the ticket is possible.

2, according to the consumer's flight schedule, the consumer presents the ticket Wednesday, the travel agency or the airline presents the ticket standard price and discount rate to the consumer according to the consumer's flight schedule, the consumer is the airline If it is determined that the suggested base price and discount rate are appropriate, paying for the ticket and using the ticket within the flight schedule provided by the consumer.

Fig. 3 is an actual example of Fig. 2; Consumers need three round-trip air tickets from Seoul to Jeju based on three months. The consumer presents his/her schedule to the airline or travel agency, and is informed of the purchase conditions such as the base price of the ticket and the discount rate for each period. If you agree to the above terms of purchase, pay for it and purchase a ticket.

Consumers must issue a ticket 3 days before departure, check the final cost including jet fuel price fluctuations in the issuance step, and if the ticket to be issued is more expensive based on the base price, only the difference from the base price is additionally paid do.

At the time of issuance after one month in Figure 3, the ticket price is 31,000 won, but the standard price is 30,000 won, so the consumer only needs to pay an additional 1,000 won, which is the difference, regardless of his or her ticket purchase amount.

4 illustrates a case in which a consumer's schedule is changed. First of all, if the same base price and the same discount rate are applied, it is of course possible to change the reservation without changing the conditions. In this example, in order to include general changes, the changed travel itinerary of the consumer is presented again, and the airline or travel agent purchases a ticket in accordance with the changed conditions. In addition, handling of tickets prior to change can also be problematic. This is because, in the case of airlines or travel agencies, aircraft may be operated with empty seats due to a change in a consumer's schedule. Airline and travel agencies sell tickets before the change according to the schedules of other consumers, and if the sale is not successful, the loss due to empty seats may be shared between the consumer and the airline or travel agency at a certain ratio. Consumers share about 10% of their mileage and deduct it from their mileage. By applying the occupancy rate of a general aircraft, if the occupancy rate of the aircraft exceeds 70%, it is assumed that there is no cost sharing by consumers.

Therefore, in the case of changing the flight schedule during the peak season, the reference price or discount rate is changed in the other schedule, but by changing the schedule, the consumer rarely pays the additional cost of changing the ticket.

In addition, even in the off-season, schedules can be changed at a cost of about 10%, so consumers are free to change their schedules.

Figure 5 shows another method of purchasing a ticket discount according to the present invention. A consumer with a fixed flight schedule can deposit the cost of purchasing an air ticket when the flight schedule is set, and additionally receive a discount on air ticket purchase cost according to the deposit period.

The longer the deposit period, the greater the air ticket discount rate. This is a ticket purchase method in which a consumer who needs a ticket deposits extra funds to purchase a ticket in advance, and the airline has the advantage of selling the ticket in advance, so that the interest cost and the opportunity cost of not being able to sell the ticket are further discounted.

In addition, the present invention may further include the step of selecting whether to apply for a service in which the consumer moves his/her luggage from his/her home to a destination through a door-to-door upon issuance of the ticket.

With the above service, the consumer can use an airplane using public transportation with only a simple carry-on bag, thereby saving money and time. In addition, it is possible to solve the problem of not being able to use public transportation because of luggage even after getting off the destination. Of course, the baggage transfer request is based on the airport departure, but can be selected only at the destination.

In addition, for smooth ticket issuance, the passport information of the person who will use the ticket purchased by the consumer can be registered in advance. It also includes a function for issuing passports. The passport issuance cost can be used by the consumer's mileage. The passport information can be scanned using a consumer's smartphone, etc., and can also be entered by text. In addition, it is possible to automatically roam a mobile phone in conjunction with a carrier and the ticket information, or to apply for a wireless data service.

In particular, in the case of long-distance travel, you can lower the discount rate and pre-empt seats in your preferred location, and of course, you can select and order in-flight meals in advance. In addition, through the problem or notification service, it informs you of travel departure preparation information, such as passport preparation, and local seasons and weather forecasts and local conditions for the duration of the trip, from one week before the trip. If the travel schedule is not confirmed, the travel schedule is confirmed It has a function of notifying that there is no problem with boarding the aircraft and adapting to the local environment by giving the information.

If you want to change your itinerary, you can make the currently booked flight itinerary available to other consumers, and post the probability of abandoning the flight itinerary together, giving priority to the original ticket buyer so that it can be used again. Other consumers who want a ticket will first purchase a ticket with a high probability of giving up their flight schedule, and through this chain reaction, a consumer who has already issued a ticket can exchange the ticket in the same way at the desired time. A consumer who has offered the current ticket for use by other consumers but has not been able to obtain a ticket at a more desired time can continue to use the ticket, as long as the current ticket is not offered with a 100% probability of giving up.

If the ticket is not exchanged and consequently a penalty is to be paid, the penalty is calculated by multiplying the difference between the probability of abandonment of the airline and 100 by the standard price of the ticket.

Penalty calculation formula: Since it is calculated as the standard ticket price X (100 - probability of abandonment),

There is no penalty if you issue a ticket with a 100% chance of giving up.

In the case of the airline, the airline has no users after all, and since it can carry more air cargo of that much weight, the airline is also harmless.

Rather than passing on all the burden of the uncertain future schedule to consumers, the airline and the travel agency share this burden, and the airline can compensate for the loss related to the non-use of the ticket by increasing the air freight, which is mutually beneficial. How to use the airline ticket.

100: airline ticketing server
200: travel agency server
300: consumer terminal

Claims (4)

consumer terminals; and
travel agency server; and
In the consumer-oriented ticket reservation service method using a consumer-oriented ticket reservation service system using an airline ticketing server,
a travel agency server connection step (S1) in which the consumer accesses the travel agency server through the Internet through the consumer terminal; and
a travel schedule presentation step (S2) of presenting a travel schedule for purchasing a ticket to the travel agency server by setting a period and number of consumers desired by the consumer; and
Connecting the travel agency server to the airline ticketing server for the travel schedule of the consumer, reading the reference price and discount price data for each ticketing period matching the travel schedule of the consumer, and delivering the reference price and discount rate to the consumer price delivery step (S3); and
and a payment step (S4) in which the consumer accepts and pays the reference price and the discount rate received by the consumer;
If the ticket price rises from the above reference price due to a change in the price of jet fuel, only the portion of the price above the above reference price is borne by the consumer, and the difference between the above reference price and the above reference price is borne by the airline or travel agency that sold the ticket,
The payment amount to be paid in the payment step is an amount obtained by multiplying the reference price by the discount rate,
and a ticket issuance step (S5) of issuing a ticket after the payment step (S4),
Actual issuance is made in the ticket issuance step, and if the determined ticket price exceeds the reference price, the consumer additionally pays only the excess amount of the reference price regardless of the discount rate,
When a consumer wants to change his or her travel itinerary, the currently booked flight schedule is made available to other consumers, and the probability of abandoning the above flight schedule is also posted. According to this chain reaction, the consumer who has issued the ticket can exchange the ticket in the same way at the desired time, and the current ticket is offered for other consumers to use, but cannot get the ticket at the desired time. The purchased consumer can continue to use the ticket unless the current ticket is given up as being abandoned with a 100% probability, and if the ticket is not exchanged and consequently has to pay a penalty, the difference between the probability of abandonment of the ticket and 100 The penalty is calculated by multiplying the above ticket standard price and using the following penalty calculation formula, and in the case of the airline, the airline has no users after all, and can carry more air cargo of that weight, so that there is no damage to the airline. A consumer-oriented ticket reservation service method characterized
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