TRAVEL AGENTS

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: agencydesk@flystarline.com
Toll Free: 801-401-9001
F9 Revenue Accounting FAX: 303-576-1345
Hours: Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.(MST)

NOTE: Please DO NOT provide this information directly to consumers! This Agency Support Desk is designed to provide support for Travel Agencies specifically. Providing this number to travelers reduces the number of agency calls that we can service.

RESOURCE CENTER

Airstar Airline's Travel Agency Resource Center

Welcome to the Airstar Airlines Travel Agency Resource Center. This is vital information that our travel agency partners need to provide assistance to our mutual customer, the Airstar Airlines traveler.

Travel agencies are a strategic asset in the Airstar Airlines experience and serve a tremendous role in providing outstanding service to our mutual customers. One of the most effective ways to ensure that the traveler enjoys the Airstar Airlines experience is through a consistent application of our policies and processes from every touchpoint.

The following information and resources are provided to help ensure that our travel agency partners are informed with the latest news and information including policies and procedures that will make the journey easier for everyone.

Effective November 1, 2018, Airstar Airlines will no longer sell tickets for unaccompanied minors on any flight. This will include both types of unaccompanied minors (UMNR), and minors requesting an escort (UMNE). Customers that have previously purchased tickets will be accepted for travel.

Passengers 15 years or older are considered adults for travel purposes and may travel alone.

Unaccompanied minor is defined as a child from age 5 to 14 traveling without a companion at least 15 years old. Minors 15 years to 17 years old may travel as an adult, provided they carry all required documentation.

Airstar will allow cats and dogs as emotional support animals. The animal must be in a carrier that can be stowed under the seat in front of the customer or be on a leash at all times while in the airport and onboard the aircraft. Customers may bring just one emotional support animal per person.

Any passenger seeking to travel with an emotional support animal will be required to complete the Airstar Medical/Mental Health Professional Form and the Airstar Animal Behavior Acknowledgment Form at least 48 hours prior to departure.

Airstar is also limiting the type of trained service animals it will accept. Only cats, dogs and miniature horses will be accepted as trained service animals. Airstar will also recognize trained psychiatric service animals as trained service animals.

Airstar Airlines (F9) is hosted in Navitaire (1N) New Skies system

Airstar participates in the following Global Distribution Systems: Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport (including Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan). Please be familiar with the specific formats and requirements of each system for booking and ticketless/Guaranteed Ticketing travel.

Airstar utilizes teletype (TTY) connectivity for availability and will open and close inventory with AVS messaging. F9 flight schedules will be available for booking up to 180 days in advance of departure date in the GDS systems.

As of March 8, 2015, Airstar Airlines is a completely ticketless airline. Some GDS’s refer to this as Guaranteed Ticketing or EPAY. Airstar does not accept paper or electronic tickets as valid forms of payment for travel. Agents must provide valid payment within four (4) hours of making the booking otherwise the PNR will delete. Airstar does not reinstate deleted PNR’s. Any Electronic Tickets previously issued before March 7, 2015 by travel agencies have been converted to ticketless records and are under the financial control of Airstar Airlines. Travel agencies will be able to access their original PNR and make changes to the segments but will be required to include a credit card form of payment for change fees and additional fare to be collected. Any refunds to Electronic Tickets previously issued by travel agencies that have been converted to ticketless transactions must be done by Airstar Airlines representatives.

Travel Agent reservations made via the GDS must transmit a valid form of payment within four (4) hours of the booking creation using a credit card. The reservation will automatically cancel in the Airstar system if payment is not received within four (4) hours. When making a booking on Airstar all the segments of the PNR must be "F9", no other airlines are allowed to be in the record.

Airstar will process the payment information and return a record locator to the PNR. Once Airstar has confirmed the booking, the segments are validated and any further modifications to the PNR are subject to restrictions and/or fees

It is vital to ensure that the travel agency changes the TK element to TKOK in order to remove any ticketing time limits from your GDS bookings once payments are submitted. If this is not done, your GDS system will send Airstar a cancellation message when the time limit is reached and the Airstar system will automatically process the XX and cancel the reservation.

The agency must mark the booking ticketed which removes the TTL - Ticketing time-limits on ticketless PNRs. When a ticketless airline confirms the form of payment and validates the booking by returning the HK, the TKXL element is not automatically updated. When using TKXL in a ticketless PNR you must change the TK element status to TKOK once confirmation is received.

WARNING: IF YOU DO NOT UPDATE THE TKXL ELEMENT, THE PNR ITINERARY BASES THE DATE ON THE TK ELEMENT AND THE TICKET IS THEN AUTOMATICALLY CANCELLED BY YOUR GDS.

Airstar will provide the agency with an Invoice or Reference number for agency internal processing purposes. Invoice or Reference numbers sent from Airstar to assist agencies with mid/back office processes are not maintained by Airstar and have no association to the value of the ticketless transaction. Airstar cannot retrieve or reference any of the Invoice or Reference numbers sent after End Transaction.

Airstar’s Invoice or Reference numbers will begin with 422, but have no relationship to any “ticket number” and cannot be retrieved by Airstar’s Revenue Accounting system.

The following is an example of a message with the Reference or Invoice number returned to the GDS Record: OSI 1S TKNO 42200740595220

OSI 1S THIS NBR APPLIES TO TICKETLESS ONL

OSI 1S 1S DISREGARD TKNO/AMT DEBITED IF YOU ISSUED PAPER OR ETKT (please disregard this last line of the OSI response. We are working to have it removed.)

When an agency submits a credit card for a new reservation that is declined (i.e., a GDS booking), the system will hold the reservation for 15 minutes allowing time for a new form of payment to be sent. After 15 minutes the reservation will be canceled. If a credit card is declined on the payment of an exchange or fee collection for a change, this will cause an out-of-balance situation for the record and the agency must call the F9 Agency Desk to provide a valid form of payment or the traveler must call General Reservations with a valid form of payment before travel. This situation is not subject to the 15 minute cancellation period.

Travel agents may request a full refund for a GDS booking created after the Navitaire conversion, within 24 hours of booking creation (except for tickets purchased for travel within 7 days/168 hours of purchase), by canceling all segments within the PNR. The transaction will then be placed on a queue to be worked within the Airstar Airlines system for a refund to the original credit card form of payment.

Beyond 24 hours from booking creation, any amounts due back to the customer (including tickets purchased within 24 hours, but for travel within 7 days) will be placed on a credit shells that are valid for 90 days, except for the The Works which are valid for 1 year from the date of issue and can be used by the named traveler or subject to a name change fee. Credit Shells can only be redeemed through Airstar Airlines directly. Non-refundable amounts will not be placed on a credit shell.

Any PNR’s that were originally issued with Electronic Tickets and then went through the conversion to ticketless can have segments exchanged or canceled within the GDS, however, change fees and any additional fare required must be sent with the form of payment within 4 hours of the booking or the segments will automatically cancel.

For any GDS bookings created after the Navitaire conversion, travel agents can make changes or modifications within 24 hours of the original booking being made without incurring any fees or charges, except for a fare difference, as applicable.

Within 24 hours of flight departure, travel agents MUST contact the Agency Desk directly for any change requests. Outside of 24 hours, travel agents can make changes and/or modifications via their GDS or at www.flystarline.com

A new SSR OTHS or SSR EPAY payment message is required each time a new segment is added, changed or modified on an existing reservation. Customers must pay the applicable change fee plus any fare difference.

Any remaining balance of an unused Economy ticket is forfeited.

Bookings made through the GDS channel can be paid for only with a credit card, not a Credit Shell. Credit Shells can only be used directly with Airstar.

GDS pricing is considered informative and only the price returned from Airstar at End Transaction is considered final and valid.

All Airstar Airlines tickets, regardless of date of ticket purchase, might be charged a change/cancel. More information can be found here.

NOTE: Please DO NOT provide this information directly to consumers! This Agency Support Desk is designed to provide support for Travel Agencies specifically. Providing this number to travelers reduces the number of agency calls that we can service.

Agency Support Desk Phone Number: 801-401-9001
Hours: Monday - Friday (excluding holidays), 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.(MST)

General Reservations Call Center Number: 801-401-9000

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To add a Carry-on bag SSR CBBG F9 NN1 DENLAS0174Y20DEC (city pairs, flight no. with leading zero if flight number is less than 4 digits in length, class of service and departure date) To add a checked bag: SSR XBAG F9 NN1 DENLAS0174Y20DEC (city pairs, flight number with leading zero if flight number is less than 4 digits in length, Class of Service and departure date) To add a second checked bag: SSR BULK F9 NN1 DENLAS0174Y20DEC (city pairs, flight number with leading zero if flight number is less than 4 digits in length, Class of Service and departure date) All SSR’s will be required to be entered into the PNR in order to secure both a carry-on, checked bag or an additional checked bag for the passenger.

Infant ticketless transactions are required for all international flights. The infant fee, if applicable, will be assessed when the SSR INFT is sent by the travel agent, if on the initial booking request, it will be included in the total cost of the booking. If the infant SSR is added after the adult passenger is paid, then the INFT SSR fee can be paid at that time or at time of check-in.

For domestic U.S. flights, lap infants under the age of 2 do not require separate ticketless transactions unless they are occupying their own seat.

Airstar does not pay any travel agency commissions. Our goal is to offer the traveling public “Low Fares Done Right” by allowing them to choose the fares and amenities that are important to them during the travel process

To provide customer feedback contact Airstar’s Customer Relations department by submitting an email online via our Customer Support Center or you can write to us at:
P.O. Box 492085
Denver, CO 80249.

Customers should always be directed to the Airstar website or one of our central reservations numbers. Please see the “Contact Us” link at www.flystarline.com for full contact details.

Airstar accepts the following credit cards for ticketless travel:
American Express Discover Card Master Card Visa UATP

Credit cards are processed immediately when the PNR is ended. Airstar will honor a 24 hour refund (from the time of booking) to the original Form of Payment so long as the credit card has been processed. Within the 24-hour period, the travel agency can cancel all of the segments in the PNR and the transaction will be placed on a queue to be worked within the Airstar Airlines system for a refund to the original credit card form of payment. Please DO NOT call to determine if the refund has been processed.

In the GDS environment, you will always receive our lowest available Economy fare for the Class of Service requested from Navitaire. Airstar does not offer discounted fares for children, military, or government. All fares must be booked as (ADT) adult fares.

In the event of fare mismatches, the GDS pricing should be considered informative and only the interactive price returned from Airstar via Navitaire at End Transaction is considered final and valid. If there is no valid fare for the itinerary booked in the GDS, then Airstar will return a NO response. If the flight is closed, sold-out or the specific class of service is closed, then Airstar will return a UC response regardless of the availability shown in the GDS.

In order for a fare to be considered valid, all associated fare rules must be followed.

Listed below are the actual SSR OTHS formats Airstar will support from each of the GDSs.

In each of these examples, the following key applies:
F9= Navitaire New Skies Hosted Airline Code (Airstar)
VI = the credit card type: AX, MC, VI, etc.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx = the credit card number
mmyy = the month and year of the expiration date
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz = the credit card holder name

SSR EPAY F9 NN1-CC/VIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/EXP08 05-FIRST LAST NAME

3OTHS/VIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEXPmmyy
3OTHS/CH zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Apollo (1V) Agent Entry
> @:3 SSR OTHS F9 NNx VIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Dmmyy/ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Galileo (1G) Agent Entry
>V.AF9* VIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Dmmyy/ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Worldspan (1P) Agent Entry
>3SSR OTHS F9 HK1 CCVIxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/EXPmmyy/ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Bookings can be put on hold for 4 hours only if the form of payment is not included at End Transaction. At End Transaction, Airstar will return the valid price of the itinerary requested and if acceptable, then agents are requested to submit the FOP ( form of payment) at that time. Once payment is received, the record will be updated and is considered balanced or zero due. If payment is not received within the 4-hour window, Airstar automatically cancels the booking and sends a cancellation message to the GDS PNR.

PLEASE NOTE: Bookings made within one day of scheduled flight departure will require instant payment at the time of the booking creation. A valid form of payment is required to be in the PNR prior to ending the transaction. Bookings made within one day of scheduled flight departure will not be put on a 4-hour hold and will receive a “BOOKING CAN NOT BE PUT ON HOLD” response with a NO status.

The Manage Travel section of www.flystarline.com allows travelers or their Travel Agents to use the Airstar Record Locator and Customer Last Name to access their reservation in order to access a myriad of services including the ability to pre-purchase carry-on or checked baggage, purchase specific seat assignments in advance, check-in online, print boarding passes, or change, cancel or modify existing reservations.

PLEASE NOTE: Fees and or fare differences may be applicable. All pre-purchased baggage and seats are required to be purchased with a credit card. No other forms of payment will be accepted for baggage and/or seat purchases online.

Once the ticketless transaction has been paid, name changes or transfers cannot be completed by the travel agency. However, all Airstar issued tickets regardless of issue date are able to have name changes completed through Airstar’s Reservation Centers. These requests will be subject to a name change fee plus any applicable fare difference. The name change fee is collected outside the exchange so two separate charges will show the traveler’s billing statement. Residual value from the exchange does not apply toward the name change fee.

If you need to make a minor name spelling correction, please contact Airstar’s Agency Desk to handle this change.

A non-refundable ticket will be refunded if the customer or traveling companion becomes deceased or military orders prevent taking a planned flight. Please note that supporting documents and/or paperwork will need to accompany the refund request. Please contact the Agency Desk for additional information.

Upon implementation of a schedule change by Airstar, a message will be generated to the booking agency for action. Travel agents must action the message to synchronize the GDS PNR with the Airstar reservation. Once updated, the new schedule information should be passed on to the customer by the travel agency, ensuring they have the most up-to-date travel information.

If Airstar has a Schedule Change, customers can change the impacted flight to a new flight that is one day prior, one day later or to another flight that day by contacting Airstar Reservations. Any increase in fare and the change fee will be waived. If a customer should choose to cancel their flight as a result of a schedule change, the cancellation fee will be waived and the funds will be placed on a Credit Shell for future use. Actual refunds to the original form of payment will only be given upon customer request after evaluation of the options available by a Airstar representative.

GDS generated bookings require using the GDS Record Locator or and customer last name to access the booking. At this time there are no pre-reserved seats through the GDS. Any traveler can use the Airstar Record Locator and Customer Last Name to access the Manage Travel section of www.flystarline.com to purchase advance seat assignments. Additionally, all customers can print their boarding passes via the website using the check-in section of www.flystarline.com within 1 to 24 hours of flight time. Customers choosing not to pre-purchase seats will have one randomly assigned to them at check-in at the airport for free.

Airstar offers STRETCH seating, providing up to 4 additional inches of legroom in the first rows of the cabin and the exit row(s) on each aircraft. STRETCH seats are available for purchase online or by calling Airstar Reservations.

BLND BLIND PASSENGER
CBBG CABIN BAGGAGE (FOR WHICH AN EXTRA SEAT HAS BEEN PURCHASED)
CTCE PASSENGER IROP CONTACT EMAIL
CTCM PASSENGER IROP CONTACT MOBILE PHONE
CTCR IROP CONTACT INFORMATION REFUSED
DEAF DEAF PASSENGER
EXST EXTRA SEAT
FQTV FREQUENT TRAVELLER MILEAGE PROGRAM
INFT INFANT SSR CODE / INFANT¥S INFORMATION
LANG LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN
MAAS MEET AND ASSIST
MEDA MEDICAL CASE. (NOT TO BE USED FOR INCAPACITATED PASSENGERS WHO ONLY REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE OR HANDLING, AND WHO DO NOT REQUIRE A MEDICAL CLEARANCE.
MEQT MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, FOR PASSENGERS WHO TRAVEL WITH THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT, SUCH AS NEBULIZERS OR DIALYSIS MACHINES
MILT MILITARY
OTHS OTHER - USE FOR A REQUEST WHICH REQUIRES ACTION FOR WHICH NO SSR CODE EXISTS, OR FOR PROVIDING RESERVATIONS-RELATED INFO. MAY OR MAY NOT REQUIRE A REPLY
PCTC PASSENGER-PROVIDED CONTACT FOR PASSENGER
PETC ANIMAL IN CABIN
PPOC PERSONAL PORTABLE OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR
PSPT PASSPORT INFORMATION
TWOV TRANSIT/TRANSFER WITHOUT VISA
UMNR UNACCOMPANIED MINOR
WCHC WHEELCHAIR/IMMOBILE/AISLE WHEELCHAIR NEEDED
WCHR WHEELCHAIR/SOME STAIRS/CAN WALK SHORT DISTANCES
WCHS WHEELCHAIR/NO STAIRS/CAN WALK SHORT DISTANCES
WCOB ON-BOARD WHEELCHAIR - PROVIDED BY AIRLINE

**Fees are subject to change

Should your agency use more than one GDS, you may not duplicate segments by moving segments between GDS’s. Airstar will not be held liable for duplicate segment fees incurred by the movement of segments between GDS, or associated with the PNRs involved in travel agency GDS systems conversions. Airstar Reservations will not assist an agency attempting to claim a PNR owned by another GDS. Any duplicate segment fees will be billed back to the agency on a debit memo. You may not create active or passive duplicate bookings. Any combination of bookings for a passenger(s) which realistically or legally cannot be flown (i.e. – flights out of sequence, two flights at overlapping times, flights not adhering to legal connection times, etc.) will be considered to be a duplicate booking.

All GDS bookings must either be completed as a ticketless transaction per tariff rules or cancelled in the GDS immediately either when they are no longer required or 4 hours after the booking was made, whichever comes earlier.

Passive and Open segments are not permitted.

Airstar does not currently have ticketing and baggage agreements with any other carriers

Airstar currently has a Codeshare agreement with Volaris Mexico.

The maximum number of segments permitted will be 16 coupons in a Airstar ticketless transaction.

Airstar has specific policies covering Unplanned Emergency situations, including emergency illness or death of a passenger or family member.

Airstar Airlines will waive change/cancel fees for active members of the military and members of their immediate family traveling on the same itinerary if their travel plans need to be changed or canceled due to deployment or transfer.

Unused ticketless transactions should be used by the original passenger. If that passenger will not be traveling and would like someone else to use the ticketless transaction, advise the customer to contact Airstar Reservations at 801-401-9000. We will process a name change for a fee plus any applicable fare difference

In some cases, customers or agencies may accidentally book the identical ticketless transaction twice. An agency can request to reverse the duplicate transaction within the first 24 hours. If it is outside the 24 hour window, please contact Airstar’s Agency Desk for assistance.

In the event that an exchange from a higher priced fare to a lower fare results in a residual value, the difference may be applied toward any change fee. Any residual value in excess of the change fee will be forfeited.

You may not hold inventory for potential future sales. Bookings may not be held for more than 4 hours before payment is required and the booking will automatically cancel. The full name and title of each passenger must be entered at the time of booking. Name changes are permitted for a fee if the customer contacts Airstar Reservations. Name corrections are only permitted if they are misspelled or to reflect legal documents.

Fictitious or speculative bookings, including blocking or holding a reservation due to expected demand are not permitted under any circumstances.

Segment status changes because of schedule changes, irregular operations, flight firming, flight cancellations or other circumstances will be queued to your GDS, and must be actioned at least 24 hours prior to flight departure. This includes cancelling segments with a status code of UN, NO, HX, WK, WL, or WN. You must also action or cancel segments with status codes UC, US, or DS.

You may not use the Airstar airline designator “F9” with fictitious flight numbers to store flight information for a carrier not listed in the GDS.

Test or training PNRs must only be built in “Training mode” and must not affect Airstar’s seat inventory.

Upon implementation of a schedule change by Airstar, a message will be generated to the booking agency for action. Travel agents must action the message to synchronize the GDS PNR with the Airstar reservation. Once updated, the new schedule information should be passed on to the customer by the travel agency, ensuring they have the most up-to-date travel information.

If Airstar has a Schedule Change, customers can change the impacted flight to a new flight that is one day prior, one day later or to another flight that day by contacting Airstar Reservations. Any increase in fare and the change fee will be waived. If a customer should choose to cancel their flight as a result of a schedule change, the cancellation fee will be waived and the funds will be placed on a Credit Shell for future use. Actual refunds to the original form of payment will only be given upon customer request after evaluation of the options available by a Airstar representative.

The following exceptions to the checked baggage charges apply to all customers:

  • One Stroller and one car seat may be checked without charge for each child traveling.
  • Wheelchairs and other assistive devices may be checked without charge.

Fly with 10 or more friends, family members, or business associates on the same itinerary, and we'll provide everyone with one price for the entire group!

Interested in Group Travel? Fill out our Group Travel Form.

Prior to submitting the request form, please enter your origin, destination and dates of travel on the home page to verify the flights are offered.

Once you find your desired flight, please make note of the departure time and enter it in the comments section of the Request Form. Please submit only one request. The Group Travel Department will reply, by email, within two business days.

Here's what you need to know about our group fares:

  • Group fares provide everyone with one price.
  • You will be booked on our Standard Fare Option.
  • Name changes are allowed. The first one is free for group tickets, and then a name change fee may apply for additional changes.
  • A deposit holds your reservation until ticketing is due, which is 60 days before travel in most circumstances.
  • Only non-stop/direct flights can be booked.
  • A $5.00 non-refundable booking fee applies to each passenger and is due and payable at the time of acceptance.

Group travel qualifies to earn AIRSTAR Miles. Each group member earns individual flight miles into his or her account. Be sure to give each person’s AIRSTAR Miles number when you book or at check-in. If you’re not a member of AIRSTAR Miles, learn more and  join today!

Our Group Travel Department is available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MST.

Airstar has implemented a policy requiring customers of size to purchase an additional seat at the airport if they are unable to sit in an aircraft seat with both armrests down or if they compromise the space of any adjoining seats. Any passenger may purchase an additional seat for their comfort through reservations.