Flight module
Flight Booking Engine
One flight search across every source you are connected to — GDS, NDC, low-cost carriers and negotiated fares — with your own pricing rules, ticketing and after-sales workflows behind it.
Flight is the hardest module in travel technology: many suppliers, different content standards, fare rules that change by the minute, and a booking that has to survive schedule changes, cancellations and refunds. Aerobit's flight module is built to carry that complexity so your team and your customers do not have to.
One search across every fare source
Aerobit searches your connected suppliers in parallel and merges what comes back into a single result set. Results stream to the screen as each supplier responds, so a slow supplier does not hold up the whole search.
- GDS content for published and negotiated fares
- NDC-ready architecture for airline-direct offers and branded fares
- Low-cost carrier connections alongside full-service content
- Series fares, group allocations and offline inventory loaded as your own content
- Lowest-fare and fare-family views, so travellers see the cheapest option and what it excludes
- Fast carriers shown first: where a supplier answers in parts, the quick part appears while the rest loads
Pricing that follows your business rules
Every result passes through your commercial layer before it reaches a customer: markups by channel, agency tier or route, commissions, taxes and fees. The same rules apply whether the booking comes from your consumer site, an agent portal, a corporate desk or a partner API.
- Markups and discounts per channel, agency, brand or market
- Amounts in the market's own currency, including three-decimal dinars
- Fare rules, baggage and change conditions carried through to checkout
- Markup, discount and flight-ancillary markup rules, each versioned and approved through a maker-checker queue
- Stacking, negative markup and below-net pricing locked behind a separate high-risk permission
- Coupons with approvals, and coupon amounts shown in the shopper’s own currency at checkout
- Payment gateways configured per company, with payments verified server-side and wallet debits for agencies
Booking, ticketing and everything after it
A flight sale does not end at payment. Aerobit models the booking lifecycle end to end, so the states your operations team cares about are handled by the platform instead of by spreadsheets and supplier portals.
- Hold, price confirmation and ticketing workflows, with the fare re-checked before payment and any price change shown for approval
- Seat maps and mandatory extras: a fare that requires a seat or baggage choice cannot be continued until it is made
- Passport details required whenever the supplier asks for them
- Ancillaries: baggage, seats and other paid services
- Cancellation, void and refund with a quote before confirmation; date changes and name corrections handled by your team as assisted requests
- Unclear supplier outcomes held for verification instead of being retried or refunded blindly
- Booking records your team and your customers can see and act on
What to look for in a flight booking engine
Most flight engines demo well and fail in operations. The questions worth asking are about what happens after the search: whether the engine can hold a price, whether it can reissue a ticket, and whether your team can see why a booking failed.
- Can it merge several suppliers into one result list, or does it search them one at a time?
- Does it re-price before ticketing, so customers are not sold an expired fare?
- Are refunds, voids and reissues part of the platform or a manual process?
- Can markups differ per channel, agency and market without code changes?
- Does it handle your currency's decimal precision exactly, including three-decimal dinars?
The fare types you can sell
A GCC travel business rarely sells one kind of fare. The flight module is built so different fare sources behave consistently once they reach your channels.
- Published fares from global distribution content
- Private and negotiated fares under your own agreements
- Low-cost carrier fares, including their ancillary-led pricing
- Branded fares and fare families, where the airline provides them
- Series fares and group allocations held as your own inventory
Where the flight module fits
The same flight engine powers every channel you sell through: a consumer website, an agent portal, a corporate self-booking tool and partner APIs. Pricing rules, booking records and after-sales flows stay shared, so a change to your commercial policy takes effect everywhere at once instead of being re-implemented per channel.