The Nuts and Bolts

Since 2001, Blue Sky Booking has been building solutions for airlines and their passengers.

Powerful experiences.

Point to point, multi-legged and connected flights with through-fare pricing and restrictions
Satisfy each market segment with targeted fares and restrictions, layered policies to maximize profits
Streamlined one-page online booking flow provides a first class experience while reducing "abandoned cart" scenarios
Leverage agent and concierge relationships with a travel agent portal, offer attractive commissions and private customer lists
Build loyalty through accumulated rewards points, traceable prepaid/postpaid tickets, promotional vouchers, rechargeable vouchers and spending cards, gift certificates, coupons, corporate accounts and internal buddy pass tracking
Automated seat and weight restrictions for accurate loads and availability across all booking scenarios
Broadcast instant flight notifications through SMS and email alerts

What are your freight features?

Track your customer's packages end-to-end to ensure it safely arrives at the destination.

Full details including drop-off/pick-up couriers and times
Itemize list of freight and calculate pricing based on dimensional weight
Track third party booking and confirmation codes
Allow customers to track their freight status directly through your website

What waiting list functions are offered?

Enable customers to join the waiting list directly from online bookings
Advanced functionality for automatic seat holds when space becomes available
Quickly view all waitlisted bookings with upgrade availability

Training and integration

You will have your own dedicated customer manager, someone who knows you, your business and your unique needs.
Online bookings matched to your corporate colors
Training environment for new staff and to fully explore features without impacting production
Power custom development for in-house applications and connections via our API
Website development services to ensure best possible booking experience

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Unite your staff.

Flights assigned granularly, allowing full control over individual flights along with batch changes for seasonal and segment changes
Digital daysheet with custom views, crew and aircraft assignment and conflict warnings
Seat and weight capacity limitations by aircraft and segment
Secured payment methods including processor agnostic credit card processing
Scanners and baggage scale integration for a seamless check-in experience
Full pilot report of breakdown of passengers, luggage and freight

International Travel and Airports

ARINC MUSE certified for check-in, boarding pass and baggage tag printing
Passport scanning
US and Canadian border entry and exit submissions
Export of standard PAXLST file for Advance Passenger Information System (APIS)

Crew App for Pilots

The Crew App provides a mobile-responsive way for pilots to remotely manage their flights.

Review schedule and assigned flights with full flight details
Check in passengers using QR code embedded in email confirmation and receipt
Input tracking for aircraft flight time

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Quote, Confirm, Fly!

Calculations based on distance and/or flight times to suit your unique needs
Charge location, port landing and facility fees along with holding times based on location and aircraft
Email quotations with option for on the spot customer approval

Advanced functions

Create standard templates for your most common charter routes and scenarios
Capture private flight and tour requests with our hybrid online booking interface
Publicly hide individual legs on quotations and invoices to mask deadhead legs

Optimize fares to identify willingness-to-pay and manage demand.

Strategic growth.

Optimize fares to identify willingness-to-pay and manage demand
‍Maximize flight revenue on each leg with precise load and availability tools, apply business intelligence to limit discounted fares based on time and loads
Pricing for direct, through fare, and connecting flights
Unlimited fare segmentation and conditional activation based on business rules
Bundle ancillary products with each fare option
Accrue loyalty points at different rates based on fare
Discount lower demand flights online and add bonus points to higher priced tiers

What restrictions can be applied?

Restrictions applied to pricing tiers to manage loads, availability and boost profitability.

Restrict availability based on booking or departure date window
Restrict by load factor for seat and/or weight, actual or percentage
Restrict by sales channel, discounts for booking online
Restrict method of payment for selected tiers

What policies can be implemented?

Provide booking incentives and penalties to leverage higher revenues

Passenger name, flight and cancellation changes
Layered policies for change fees and conditions based on booking and departure time windows

Global presence is more important than ever. Connect through every channel and sell to the world.

Reach the world.

Read our Guide to Global Distribution

Global presence is more important than ever.
Connect through every channel and sell to the world.
Sell on all major Global Distribution Systems (GDS) via Hahn Air
Direct Connect with thousands of Online Travel Agents (OTA), aggregators and metasearch engines via Travelfusion, Zaui
Online Marketplace automations with Viator
Costs for 3rd party distribution maintained through contracts with upstream providers

Additional Features

Costs

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Pricing for 3rd party distribution through contracts with upstream providers

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You have control.

Full library of operational, accounting and marketing reports
Review key performance indicators of your business with customizable reporting
Integrate into your accounting system and have full reconciliation of your daily sales
Permissions based system for staff with full audit logging
Internal alerts and flags that connect departments with key messages and tracking details
Zapier integration †
In development

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Protect your business.

Cloud hosted services provided by Microsoft® SQL Azure™
Point in time backups for last 35 days, weekly backups for at least 1 year
Dedicated server with firewall available to Enterprise subscribers
Internal encryption and hashing to protect key customer data and passwords
Payment processing with PCI compliance and full tokenization of credit card data
via Eigen Development, Stripe

The Nuts and Bolts

Point to point, multi-legged and connected flights with through-fare pricing and restrictions

Satisfy each market segment with targeted fares and restrictions, layered policies to maximize profits

Streamlined one-page online booking flow provides a first class experience while reducing "abandoned cart" scenarios

Leverage agent and concierge relationships with a travel agent portal, offer attractive commissions and private customer lists

Build loyalty through accumulated rewards points, traceable prepaid/postpaid tickets, promotional vouchers, rechargeable vouchers and spending cards, gift certificates, coupons, corporate accounts and internal buddy pass tracking

Automated seat and weight restrictions for accurate loads and availability across all booking scenarios

Broadcast instant flight notifications through SMS and email alerts

What are your freight features?

Full details including drop-off/pick-up couriers and times

Itemize list of freight and calculate pricing based on dimensional weight

Track third party booking and confirmation codes

Allow customers to track their freight status directly through your website

What waiting list functions are offered?

Enable customers to join the waiting list directly from online bookings

Advanced functionality for automatic seat holds when space becomes available

Quickly view all waitlisted bookings with upgrade availability

Training and integration

You will have your own dedicated customer manager, someone who knows you, your business and your unique needs.

Online bookings matched to your corporate colors

Training environment for new staff and to fully explore features without impacting production

Power custom development for in-house applications and connections via our API

Website development services to ensure best possible booking experience

Flights assigned granularly, allowing full control over individual flights along with batch changes for seasonal and segment changes

Digital daysheet with custom views, crew and aircraft assignment and conflict warnings

Seat and weight capacity limitations by aircraft and segment

Secured payment methods including processor agnostic credit card processing

Scanners and baggage scale integration for a seamless check-in experience

Full pilot report of breakdown of passengers, luggage and freight

International Travel and Airports

ARINC MUSE certified for check-in, boarding pass and baggage tag printing

Passport scanning

US and Canadian border entry and exit submissions

Export of standard PAXLST file for Advance Passenger Information System (APIS)

Crew App for Pilots

Review schedule and assigned flights with full flight details

Check in passengers using QR code embedded in email confirmation and receipt

Input tracking for aircraft flight time

Calculations based on distance and/or flight times to suit your unique needs

Charge location, port landing and facility fees along with holding times based on location and aircraft

Email quotations with option for on the spot customer approval

Advanced functions

Create standard templates for your most common charter routes and scenarios

Capture private flight and tour requests with our hybrid online booking interface

Publicly hide individual legs on quotations and invoices to mask deadhead legs

Optimize fares to identify willingness-to-pay and manage demand

‍Maximize flight revenue on each leg with precise load and availability tools, apply business intelligence to limit discounted fares based on time and loads

Pricing for direct, through fare, and connecting flights

Unlimited fare segmentation and conditional activation based on business rules

Bundle ancillary products with each fare option

Accrue loyalty points at different rates based on fareDiscount lower demand flights online and add bonus points to higher priced tiers

What restrictions can be applied?

Restrict availability based on booking or departure date window

Restrict by load factor for seat and/or weight, actual or percentage

Restrict by sales channel, discounts for booking online

Restrict method of payment for selected tiers

What policies can be implemented?

Passenger name, flight and cancellation changes

Layered policies for change fees and conditions based on booking and departure time windows

Global presence is more important than ever.Connect through every channel and sell to the world.

Sell on all major Global Distribution Systems (GDS) via Hahn Air

Direct Connect with thousands of Online Travel Agents (OTA), aggregators and metasearch engines via Travelfusion, Zaui

Online Marketplace automations with Viator

Costs for 3rd party distribution maintained through contracts with upstream providers

Costs

Pricing for 3rd party distribution through contracts with upstream providers

Full library of operational, accounting and marketing reports

Review key performance indicators of your business with customizable reporting

Integrate into your accounting system and have full reconciliation of your daily sales

Permissions based system for staff with full audit logging

Internal alerts and flags that connect departments with key messages and tracking details

Zapier integration †In development

Cloud hosted services provided by Microsoft® SQL Azure™Point in time backups for last 35 days, weekly backups for at least 1 year

Dedicated server with firewall available to Enterprise subscribers

Internal encryption and hashing to protect key customer data and passwords

Payment processing with PCI compliance and full tokenization of credit card datavia Eigen Development, Stripe

The Guide to Global Distribution Part 1: GDS

The Guide to Global Distribution Part 2: Direct Connect and NDC

The Guide to Global Distribution Part 3: Online Travel Marketplaces

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Accrue loyalty points at different rates based on fare
Discount lower demand flights online and add bonus points to higher priced tiers

Global presence is more important than ever.
Connect through every channel and sell to the world.

Zapier integration †
In development

Cloud hosted services provided by Microsoft® SQL Azure™
Point in time backups for last 35 days, weekly backups for at least 1 year

Payment processing with PCI compliance and full tokenization of credit card data
via Eigen Development, Stripe