AUTOMATED SPLIT TICKETING

摘要

An enhanced travel search tool aimed at providing travel opportunities is described. The travel search tool includes a ticket splitter operating from a list of flight connections provided by a front-end flight search engine. The ticket splitter comprises a means for valuating all ticket partitions generated from the provided list of connection flights and a tree of split criteria updated in a cache for determining the partitions and attributing to each partition a probability value of obtaining a split-ticket solution. The ticket splitter also includes a means for selecting those of the valuated partitions that have a probability value higher than a defined threshold and provides a sorted list of recommended partitions to a back-end fare search engine to price all the selected partitions including a reference single-ticket solution. Travel search tool offering of travel opportunities is enhanced by automatically including multi-ticket travel solutions.