Qatar Airways in codeshare with Lufthansa Systems

Lufthansa Systems has successfully implemented its SchedConnect codeshare management solution at Qatar Airways. With SchedConnect, Qatar Airways is able to optimise its codeshare management and reduce costs and increase revenues.

SchedConnect calculates the optimum codeshare assignments based on current flight schedules every day. The system processes up to 40 million schedule changes every month. If a minimum connecting time is violated due to a schedule change or if a partner flight is cancelled, SchedConnect automatically assigns the marketing flight number to another suitable connecting flight. Changes are sent through the reservation systems to travel agents and customers, as well as to the operations and passenger-related systems of the airlines involved.

For the booking and ticketing of their duty and private staff travel on other Airlines, Qatar Airways has opted for the integrated IT solution, myIDTravel from Lufthansa Systems. Both companies recently signed a five-year-contract. myIDTravel enables airlines to issue electronic tickets for ID travellers on other airlines and to reduce costs by optimising processes.

myIDTravel can be integrated into the system environment of any airline and covers the large number of bilateral agreements between airlines. Through interline e-ticketing, the integration of self-service functions and a high level of automation, airlines can optimise their ID travel management. myIDTravel especially simplifies multi-leg trips since employees can execute all steps of the booking process in one system. They can check the availability of flights on participating airlines and create, edit and cancel bookings or listings at any time.