This new page in COS is meant to be used, so that you can get general information about all worldwide airlines’ timetables.
This can be quite useful sometimes, if you want to see how your competitors are operating to certain destinations.
The generic data shown on this new page, is currently getting updated every 2nd day.
Source of this data is https://www.oag.com
Important note:
Most of this data is NOT used for flight proposals inside COS nor for online-bookings’ flight suggestions.
See how to use the “soft-lock” option with the Volume- and the Chargeable Weight-Fields on the Booking Mask.
1. “Soft-lock” state (organge coloured)
Is meant to be used mainly for pre-bookings to protect the value inside the Volume-field against COS-internal-synchronisations, when you or another user might want to change the Gross Weight in a pre-booking but keep the volume as it was initially set. This helps you to plan the space on your flights more accurately. It will still let processes like f.e. incoming C-IMP-msgs such as, FWBs, FFRs, FSUs etc, or incoming Bot-data change and update the content of this field.
2. “Super-lock” state (red coloured)
Is meant to be used as usually for cases, when you want to sell a higher Chargeable Weight f.e. due to oversized cargo etc. In this state, the values remain completely protected against any COS-internal synchronization as well as against any external data updates coming from C-IMP-msgs such as FWBSs, FFRs, FSUs etc as well as against incoming Bot-data-updates.
See how to navigate and set/unset filters on the Flight Worldmap on the COS-Dashboard.
When you have access to multiple COS-entities, you have now the option to open up the filter either to see all currently “airborne” flights and trucks of all or certain COS-entities or even filtering them of one particular airline handled in multiple COS-entities.
This Flight Map is only visible to users having special Operations Supervisor, Maintenance- or Admin-User-Roles.
The Pre-Booking tool is meant to be used for bookings lists, that you receive from customers, that have regular weekly shipments.
See how to create a whole bunch of bookings based on one rough-model booking. You also have the option to send out FFR-msgs for each of those bookings.
And all this by just one click of the mouse!
See how to transmit Booking- and Pricing-details from one COS entity to another.
This used for between GSAs using COS, that do intercompany buying/selling.
All bookings details including attached AWB-copy etc (expect internal remarks) as well as the Buying Pricing details such as Airfreight-costs as well as Other Charges due Carrier will be part of that data-transmission.
In the COS-entity that receives that data, the Pricing Selling-side will get populated accordingly and they will also receive an e-mail-notifications about bookings that are getting transmit.
ee how easy you can drag and drop an AWB PDF Copy onto the COS Booking Mask in order to:
1. Call an existent booking
2. Update the major booking details like Pcs, Gr.Wt, Chrg.Wt., Origin, Destination, Commodity and Agent
3. Attached the AWB PDF to the Documents-section of the booking in COS
4. Flag the “AWB Copy” tick to indicate that AWB was received
See how to use and trigger default Handling Agents by different criteria, in order to auto-populate:
a) Bookings as an information to customers on Booking confirmations and for the purpose of price-triggering of GHA-related Other Charges
as well as
b) Truck Manifests to show pick-up-GHA as well as deliver-to-GHA
See how to create and use Special Handling Code Groups for the following two purposes:
See how to use a quick-link from Bookings Overview to create a Purchase Document (buying quote) quicker and easier.
See how to use the Standard Text Tool so that you do not need to write re-occuring same text again and again.
You can easily store a text in most free-text-fields in COS and “call” it by entering a simple code adding the question-mark-character “?” and then auto-populate the field by using the tab-key.