Issue

Scope of audit

Outcome

Penalty

Reservation Booking Designator (RBD) Violation

Validation on booked vs. ticketed data where there is a mismatch between ticketed and booked RBD

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference between ticketed vs. booked RBD

Fare/sales violation

Validation for the compliance of fare and sales conditions on all purchased tickets (e.g.advance purchase, agency applicability, addon fares, blackout period, booking class, under collection of fare, booking flight condition, Other Airlines (OAL) carrier condition, routing, sale date validity, travel date validity/seasonality violation, stop over surcharge, upsell charge for class upgrade, over-claim of commission, combination condition, min/max stay conditions, under collection of taxes and fees, weekend surcharge, child/infant discounts and all other special discounts, date of birth check, expiry of fare, Pricing Unit Concept (PUC), baggage allowance check, Carrier Identification Plate (CIP)/plating violation: abuse of CIP/plating conditions on QR/OAL plate where the fare rule/fare note does not allow to do so, regardless if the ticket is auto or manually priced.
Note:
Following oneworld fare products can be fully ticketed on the stock of oneworld carriers/members.
Global Explorer oneworld Explorer
Circle Pacific
Circle Trip Explorer
Circle Asia and South West Pacific
Visit Africa
Visit Asia
Visit Japan
Visit Australia & New Zealand
Visit Malaysia
Visit South America
Visit Europe
Visit North America
Visit Middle East
Visit SASC
Select Validation Carrier which has ticketing agreements with all airlines in the itinerary

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare/tax/ commission difference

Fare violation for tickets issued with open/request status

Validation on purchased tickets with open/request status where confirmed reservation is required

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference to first higher fare where Wait List (WL) is permitted or fixed amount

Refund violation

Validation on documents claimed for refund, duplicate refund check.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare/tax/ commission difference

Reissue violation

Validation on reissued documents

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare/tax/ commission difference

Validation on flown coupon vs. ticketed coupon (e.g. comparison between RBD on both coupons, flight number/flight date mismatch, ticketed vs. flown routing, collection).

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference between flown RBD to ticketed RBD

Additional audit checks

Violation of which will result in the issuance of ADM: dual utilization, Miscellaneous Charges Order (MCO)/Prepaid Ticket Advice (PTA) over-utilization, utilization against void sales and un-reported sales, identification of no show passengers and blocking the future utilization for non-refundable cases as well as conversion of fare collected against such cases into revenue, collection of no show charges for refund transactions where applicable, MCOs issued for class upgrades, Excess Baggage Ticket (EBT)/MCO issued for excess baggage, Passenger Name Record (PNR) check for min/max stay condition in case of e-tickets, materialization rate for group sales.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Entire value of the ticket (violated sector)

Excessive Churning

Verification on agency rebooking a segment or segments canceled either by the agency or airline four (4) or more times in one PNR or across different PNRs.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

A premium of USD 8 will be charged per dupe segment and per excess churn block.

Duplicate segments

Verification on agency created duplicate segments

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

ADM to be raised for GDS misuse only when the charges are equal to or exceed $50 across the audit period. The amount is subject to revision.

Other misuse

Verification on agency with other misuse involved, which includes: fictitious bookings, invalid day of operation, reject overrides, invalid flight number, invalid city pair, invalid booking class, invalid open segment, invalid waitlist class, and fake names. Segments cancelled within 24 hours of departure if charged to airline will be recharged to agent.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Inactive bookings

Verification on agency bookings with segment status HX/UN/NO/UC/US etc. otherwise known as non-productive segments.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Origin & Destination violation

Verification on bookings that do not follow the O&D logic and other various practices used to manipulate the system to accept bookings made against the married segment logic.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD300 per passenger

Hidden group

Verification on multiple individual ticketed PNRs created for large groups which expressly prohibited as against QR Group Policy and Procedures.
Note: OTA is exempted from this Policy

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD300 per passenger

Minimum Connecting Time (MCT) violation

Verification on bookings that undercut required MCT

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD300 per passenger

Fictitious names

Verification on bookings created with fictitious names

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD 300 per passenger

Dupe PNRs

Verification on duplicate PNRs

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD300 per passenger

Dupe segments

Verification on duplicate segments

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD 100 per segment per passenger

Speculative bookings

Bookings made when no definite passengers exists, in anticipation of possible sale
Bookings created in higher classes that are released close to departure to make seats available in lower classes
Excessive waitlists

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount USD300 per passenger
Fixed amount USD300 per passenger
Fixed amount USD 1OO per segment per passenger

Illegal class mix

A booking made with an illegal combination of classes in order to secure space that is not then ticketed at the correct price

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference to first higher fare where mix class is permitted

Combining negotiated space with free sale inventory

Combination of negotiated space (G class) with free sale inventory within one O&D without authorization

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference between G class fare and RBD booked with free sale

Cross border ticketing

Ticket issuance in such a way it appears that the travel commences in a different country than is actually the case or containing flight segments not intended for use

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fare difference between fare purchased and the actual travel

Back to back ticketing / out of sequence used

The issuance or use of coupons from two or more tickets issued at round trip fares or the combination of two or more round trip fares end to end on the same ticket, for the purpose of circumventing applicable tariff rules, such as advance purchase and minimum stay requirements.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD300 per direction per passenger

Use of robotic macros/scripts

Use of robotic macros/scripts to perform availability functions within GDSs

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD5 per hit

Baggage allowance

Verification on baggage allowance printed on the ticket vs. the actual allowance approved for applicable fares/Point Of Sales (POS)/deal code, etc.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD300 per passenger

POC (Point Of Commencement) violation

Creation of segment (s) not in the right booking sequence as per the journey passenger intends to travel, with the intention to circumvent QR inventory to obtain seats in RBD (s) which may have not been available when the same was requested.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD300 per passenger. This is the minimum amount Qatar Airways will be charging. It remains the airline prerogative to recover the fare difference where deemed necessary, between the RBD booked and next available RBD that should have been booked when the same was requested from the right availability / booking sequence.

POC (Point Of Commencement) violation

Creation of segment (s) not in the right booking sequence as per the journey passenger intends to travel, with the intention to circumvent QR inventory to obtain seats in RBD (s) which may have not been available when the same was requested.

Debit will be raised to Booking/Ticketing agent

Fixed amount of USD300 per passenger. This is the minimum amount Qatar Airways will be charging. It remains the airline prerogative to recover the fare difference where deemed necessary, between the RBD booked and next available RBD that should have been booked when the same was requested from the right availability / booking sequence.