Pregem offers a solution to help airlines manage the complex challenges of YQ (ticket level charges). Their system allows airlines to consolidate YQ rate rules and maintenance, calculate all YQ liabilities including flown, unflown and offline amounts, and generate reports to analyze YQ data. The secure system provides authorized users access to maintain YQ rates and run daily, weekly or monthly liability calculations and reporting.

1. YQ Analysis from Pregem
The solution to a taxing problem

2. YQ Analysis: Overview
 What is YQ?
 Problems airlines face with YQ
 Pregem has the best solution
 Our approach to YQ
 Rate maintenance
 Liability calculation
 Reporting
 Summary
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3. YQ Analysis: What is YQ?
 A ticket level charge applied by airlines
 It is not a ‘government’ tax
 It is also called ‘YR’ or ‘fuel surcharge’
 Often shown separately to base fare on TKTS
 Accounts for millions ($,£,€) each week
 Is highly sensitive commercial data
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4. YQ Analysis: The Challenges
 Rates often set by Commercial but impact Finance
 Rates may be frequently updated
 Accompanying rules can be complex
 May include many exception conditions e.g.
via points, POC, POS, class, dates
 Conditions often in word form
 Master rate data may not be secure
 Data may be held in a local Excel copies
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5. YQ Analysis: More Challenges
 Exception conditions may apply based on:
– Via points
– POC/POS
– Class/Cabin
– Booking/Issue/Travel dates
– Staff/Crew pos./Training/FF’s
– Currency
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6. YQ Analysis: Still More
Challenges
 Airline may only have ticket level YQ data
 Can be difficult to calculate full YQ liability e.g.
– Online flown
– Offline flown
– OAL flown
– Sold not flown, refunded or exchanged
 Difficulty auditing YQ to coupon level
 Can result in different versions of the truth
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7. YQ Analysis: Pregem’s solution
Pregem YQ Analysis enables you to:
1. Consolidate YQ rate rules & maintenance
2. Calculate & cross check all YQ liabilities
3. Analyse YQ data with BI style reports
4. Maintain full historical Sold v Flown YQ liability
reports
5. Enable audit of Expected v Actual YQ
One YQ source for both Finance & Commercial
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8. YQ Analysis: Secure YQ Rates
 Rates stored in our secure DB
 Maintained through user interface
 Accessible to authorised users only
 Rates can be imported from Excel directly
 Rates validated based on defined rules
 Flexible structure to support new rules
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9. YQ Analysis: Calculate YQ
Liability
 Options for Flown, OAL, Offline & Flown not
Sold
 Uses your ticket, schedule and class data
 Daily, weekly or monthly processing
 Output in range of formats
 Browser based analysis, drill-down & reporting
 Multiple GUI analysis points including:
Route, date, cabin, POC/POS, ticket/coupon
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YQ Analysis: Customisable UI

11. YQ Analysis: Summary
 Supports complex YQ rates & maintenance
 Handles all modes of YQ (Flown, Unflown, Offline etc.)
 Audit expected YQ v actual YQ collected
 Even a 0.5% error rate could be you costing millions
 Supports cross departmental use
 Security and access defined down to user level
 Daily, weekly or monthly reporting options
 GUI browser based reports all with Excel support
 Range of output data streams can be provided
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12. YQ Analysis: Delivery Steps
 Available as hosted service or in house system
 Pregem already host systems for several airlines
 Ticket data can be extracted from your existing system
 YQ rate maintenance via Excel
 Configure rules, run schedule and output streams
 Reports supplied in QlikView (or your preferred BI tool)
 No obligation trial under NDA available
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