All About Air Travel Manager

Air Travel Manager (AirTM) is by far the fastest way to thoroughly research your air travel needs. AirTM also provides the most control, finding you the most comfortable and convenient flights at the lowest possible cost.

What Is Air Travel Manager?

Air Travel Manager (AirTM) is a sophisticated user-interface to the world's largest reservation system. The program acts as your agent in executing many reservation system commands and processing dozens of reservation system screens. Flights and fares for your entire trip are presented together on a single screen. City, airline and aircraft codes are translated into English.

Important information such as elapsed times adjusted for time zone and daylight time and frequent flyer mileage are automatically calculated by the program (a large online site frequently show incorrect elapsed times on their main screen). Complex requests are easily handled with a few mouse clicks. 12 different date/city variations of the same trip can be run all at once (registered users).

Flights can be split through intermediate cities and priced on a single screen. Business travelers often save 50% or more by checking a few intermediate cities in just a few minutes.

The Air Travel Manager user-interface is three-dimensional and layered to provide a customized mix of information. AirTM provides users with a complete travel database system based which stores airlines, saved requests, fares and priced itineraries on their local PC. You can search flight alternatives and price itineraries in just a few minutes, without ever typing a command or reading a reservation code.

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Features

• AirTM includes DOT average fare data for all city pairs with 20 or more passengers per day (within 48 US states). This represents more than 4,000 pairs. AirTM automatically shows all nearby city pairs and calculates the cheapest alternate route for youTravel Manager is powerful and easy to use.

• Air Travel Manager is powerful and easy to use. A single screen lets you view up to 200 flight options, each with up to 4 flights, sorted and obtained according to your exact criteria. Flights are combined with fares and updated as you explore your options. Up to 12 different dates and cities can be run as a single trip query at one time (registered version). Different dates and cities are sortable on price and flight displays, making it easy to find the cheapest days and/or cities to travel to or from.

• Air Travel Manager (AirTM) is completely unbiased. You control what you see and how it is displayed. AirTM lets you sort flights based on cost, frequently flyer miles (automatically calculated), total time (adjusted for time zones), departure time, arrival time and the airline, combining any of these.

• AirTM is comprehensive. A typical query checks 50 flights and 50 fares for a round trip. You can adjust query settings to examine many more as needed.

• Automatic Internet operation on most TCP/IP networks, including through corporate firewalls (proxy servers), provided no login is required and no security alerts are set. AirTM uses Microsoft's 32-bit Internet Transfer Control to ensure performance and compatibility in any situation, dial-up or dedicated line.

• Eight years of experience meeting the needs of consumer and business travelers, and earning the respect of the industry (jump to press acclaim). Air Travel Manager pioneered online booking when it was launched in 1993. Version 1 was in use for 5 years until being replaced in June of 1998 with Version 2.

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System Requirements

• Travelocity® Login Name

• A 32-bit Windows PC (95/98/NT) and at least 16-bit color display setting (not 256 colors)

• Internet access (dial-up or proxy servers that don't require login) with IE settings: cookies accepted, history kept, SSL3 & no security alerts

• Internet Explorer 4+ (installed, you can still use Netscape as your default browser), and IE4 security set to no security alerts

• Reside in the United States (your Travelocity® Id must default to US dollars and use 12 hour time)

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Registration

• Air Travel Manager is freely available with a limited feature set. Activating all of its features requires payment of the registration fee of $29. This provides a registration key unique to your Travelocity® Login Name that can be used on any PC that you use (prior to Version 3.1 the key was also specific to one hard disk). Note: Simultaneous use on more than one PC at a time is not supported.

• Air Travel Manager is available exclusively via download, both in a full version (appx. 4 MB) and an update version (appx. 1 MB) from the AirTM web site at http://www.airtm.com.

• Registration is done from within Air Travel Manager via the Register menu (next to Help). Registration keys are sent via e-mail.

• Users can obtain the latest release of Version 3 at no charge via download, just as Version 1 updates were available for 5 years (1993-1998) at no charge.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why should I used AirTM? See the separate section

How does AirTM work? AirTM is a complete stand-alone one-step system with a database of airlines, places and information about all of your queries and itineraries. AirTM acts is a user-friendly interface into the world's largest reservation system. AirTM executes commands and processes real-time airline information in the background as fast as it is sent by your Internet connection or modem. AirTM displays information in plain English, enhancing it with information such as elapsed time and frequent flyer mileage.

Do I really get the lowest fare? Yes. Unless you ask for specific fares, AirTM uses the reservation system's own software to guarantee you the lowest overall fare, combining fares on flights or segments as required. Thousands of combinations of fares may be considered for your itinerary.

Can I use AirTM for international travel? Sure! Most world airlines and destinations can be priced via AirTM, provided you have a United States-based reservation system account. AirTM can be used to travel anywhere in the world and can also be used while you travel from your laptop PC, even airborne! Just dial your Internet service provider's access number.

Why is AirTM better than going to an airline web site directly? Calling an airline or visiting their web site can be a big mistake. You can't possibly contact all of them or even know which ones have flights. Airlines may not tell you where planes stop (AirTM does) or whether a single flight really changes planes or even airlines enroute. Airlines may promote flights they want to fill, leaving out options you might prefer. You may also be pressured to ticket on the spot. With AirTM you can shop, take your time and carefully consider all of your options .

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