Altéa Inventory

Altéa Inventory Maximize yield & automate schedules, seating and re-accommodation

Altéa Inventory overview

Altéa Inventory is a brand new airline inventory management solution, which was launched in 2004 and is already used by over 100 airlines of all sizes in all markets.

Using advanced availability management techniques and dynamic customer identification, Altéa Inventory enables airlines to implement the latest revenue management techniques - both now and in the future.

Altéa Inventory also streamlines the management of flight schedules and the introduction of new products, significantly speeding up time to market. Using Altéa's unique customer value process, you are also able to allocate preferential treatment to your high value customers.

Main Altéa Inventory features

Schedule management
  • Automated schedule reception
  • Automated massive schedule change
  • Flight dressing using market pair logic
  • Automated and customised schedule publication
Inventory control
  • Revenue Availability (O&D), control airline inventory and calculate availability by revenue bid price and market based yields
  • Support for all revenue management techniques
  • Point of sale control down to IATA agency ID
  • Real-time interaction with RMS and DCS
  • Automated availability publication rules
  • Prioritisation of users' daily workload
Seating management
  • Single seat map used across reservation and departure control.
  • Automated seating rules using customer value
  • Graphical seat map
Waitlist management
  • Customised customer access to waitlist
  • Automated waitlist clearance based on customer value
Re-accommodation
  • Guided re-accommodation mode
  • Automated flight selection, including partners
  • Fully automated re-accommodation mode based on full itinerary and customer value
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Graphical user interface

Altéa Inventory is accessed via a graphical user interface, which is designed around airline workflows to increase efficiency and facilitate users' proficiency, as shown in the examples below.

Seat map interface

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Seat map interface

Fully graphical seat map, including drag-and-drop design features, to facilitate rapid implementation of new aircraft configurations and product enhancements

Schedule management interface

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Schedule management interface

Easy access to schedule period variations and detailed schedule data, including meal codes, code share and configuration, etc

Inventory Control Interface.

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Inventory Control Interface

Designed to make it easy to view and understand the impact of the availability controls sent by your RMS

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Business impact

Altéa Inventory delivers multiple business benefits. In particular, it enables you to make the most of more advanced revenue management techniques to capture the full yield opportunity.

  • Increased yield

    Maximise the yield of your entire network by using latest revenue management techniques. Increase revenue by up to 6%, depending on your current business characteristics

  • Time to market

    Respond instantly to competitor's actions, change business policies dynamically (seating, schedules) using market-based business rules. Save several days or weeks, depending on your current processes

  • Customer satisfaction

    Apply customer preferences consistently and give priority to high value customers (waitlist clearance, re-accommodation)
    Increase revenue from repeat customers

  • Increased productivity

    Save time for all your schedule, seating and. re-accommodation management agents, as well as flight controllers
    Reduce processing time by up to 30%

  • Efficient IT model

    Move to variable IT cost and benefit from shared infrastructure and community development
    Reduce total cost of ownership

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Who can use it?

All over the world, airlines of all sizes are currently using Altéa Inventory.

Because Altéa Inventory is a modular solution, it can be tailored to fit any business environment and integrated with any Revenue Management System and other downstream applications.

Altéa Reservation is a prerequisite for Altéa Inventory, which guarantees seamless customer service.

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Implementation

During the past 2 years, Amadeus has successfully migrated over 20 airlines, carrying 50 million passengers, to Aléa Inventory.

Amadeus offers a unique and highly experienced team of implementation experts and has fully streamlined the process of migration to Altéa Inventory to guarantee the lowest level of disruption and migration risk.

Migration and implementation of Altéa Reservation can be carried out simultaneously. The process can take as little as 3 months, depending on airline size and complexity.

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Why take Altéa Inventory?

  • Enables you to implement the most suitable revenue management techniques for you - now and in the future
  • Increases your business agility
  • Unique capability to differentiate customer service based on customer value
  • More efficient IT model
  • Fast and secure implementation
  • Take advantage of perfect integration with Altéa Reservation and Altéa Departure Control
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Customer feedback

This successful migration is a strategic step towards the transformation of our IT systems and the achievement of Air France-KLM synergies. Thanks to the flexibility of Altéa Inventory, the Air France-KLM group has been able to migrate to a platform supporting the combined advanced needs of two major airlines whilst leveraging both carriers’ best practices.

Bruno Matheu
eVP Marketing, Revenue-Management and Network
Air France-KLM