AR Card Billing - Interline Processing

Interline processing covers the reconciliation of cross charging between airlines that relates purely to UATP transactions. For a fuller description of the subject, refer to the section on Inter Airline Settlement.

For the purposes of Card Billing, there are two areas of concern:

Interline Receivables

In this scenario, you will have received flight information as tickets relating to legs of journeys bought on another airlines card, but flown on your airline. In this case, the other airline owes you for the services you have provided in carrying that passenger. The system records these details and enables you to create IATA Form 1 documents to be submitted to IATA for the reclamation of those charges.

Interline Payables

Interline Payables refers to the other side of the coin, where a passenger has used your card to travel on another airline. In this case, you owe the other airline for the carriage of that passenger.

Note that under the rules established by UATP, you will be entitled to retain a percentage of the fare paid by the passenger as a fee for using your UATP card. This percentage is defined on Card Billing controls and is set by UATP.

Interline Matching

Interline matching is a facility provided by the system to allow you to ensure that charges from other airlines that you have to pay have been flown before you make that payment.

Transactions are created in the interline payables ledger for accounts that correspond to the airline codes carrying the passenger. These postings are made at data entry time if interline processing is in use and the carrier account has been set up. The Invoice Number on the ticket is used as the matching reference against transactions interfaced from the carrying airlines at a later date.

You must run the interline payables matching process CEA (type SUBMIT CEA on the command line) in order to match transactions.

NOTE The menu path shown is the default for the system. Your company may have customised menu options, so the path shown may not be accurate. Please contact your system administrator for details.