Express Rates (Airline Rate Updates) :

Express Rates is a service which provides up-to-date information about the ever fluctuating airfreight rates Ex-Mumbai. It has become extremely difficult to keep track of the fuel and security surcharge of various airlines as it keeps changing almost every week. Identifying this difficulty, we have launched this service. Apart from the updates on rates, it also has various other features as listed below :

I. Rate Query

• Basic Query : You can get a basic rate listing by specifying destination, commodity and the shipment date. It will show you all the rates for all the slabs along with fuel surcharge, war surcharge and screening charges. It also indicates whether the airline is online or offline. At the click of a mouse, you can find out the cheapest airline. It will also give you remarks wherever applicable.

• Advanced Query : In the enhanced query, you can specify the airline (if you want the rate of a specific airline), Gross weight, Dimensions (the system is capable of calculating the chargeable weight based on the dimensions and gross weight). You can specify the dimensions in inches or centimeters. It can also calculate the equivalent Cbm value based on the dimensions. You can specify any currency of your choice with the exchange rate, to get the rate listing in a foreign currency. You will also have an option to view the commissionable rates as well as the net-net rates. This software is intelligent enough to calculate the break-point rates also, if applicable.

You can specify either the code or the name while specifying the airline and destination. The rates can be printed or exported into excel or pdf (acrobat) format. It can also be emailed directly from the system. The option for printing, exporting and emailing are password controlled. Presently rates are available for General Cargo, Perishable Cargo, Leather & Leather Goods, Garments and Pharmaceuticals.


II. World Time

You can specify an Airport or a Country and the system will show the date and time of that specific location compared to the Indian Standard Time (System Time).


III. Address Book

You can maintain a contact book also in this system. The details like company name, address, email address, telephone/fax number. You can also specify contact details of four persons along with their designation, direct telephone number, mobile number, residence number and email address. You can also query the details based on company name, contact person, telephone/fax/mobile number etc.


IV. Message Book

You can also maintain a message book in this system. If you receive a telephone call from someone for a specific person in your office, you can record this message in this system. If anybody wants to check the messages, they can log into the system and check their messages. This option can be used to record even the internal messages.


V. Airline Contacts

The contact details of airlines like the address, telephone/fax number, contact person etc. of accounts and sales office are available at the press of a key.


VI. Reports

1. Rate Listing : You can get a complete listing of the rates of an airline along with fuel, war and screening charges (of all commodities) by specifying the airline and the effective date. This list can also be printed.

2. Rate Status : Here the system will show the rate update status. It will show the dates ofthe latest circulars issued by the various airlines on account of freight rates, fuel surcharge, war surcharge etc.

3. Service Status : This report will show the list of airports where an airline is operating. It will also indicate whether the service is online or offline.

4. Country Wise Airports : You can get a listing of all the airports in a country by specifying a country.

5. Fuel/War/Screening Charges : Here you can get the details of fuel surcharge, war surcharge and screening charges along with the minimum charges and the respective effective date of all the airlines at a glance.

Availability of Rates :

Presently we are providing the rates of 50 airlines. We will be adding up more airlines in the near future to make the list comprehensive. The name of the airlines, whose rates we provide currently are listed below :

Aerosvit	Air Canada	Air France	Air Mauritius	British Airways
Alitalia	All Nippon	Air India	American Airlines	Biman Bangladesh
Austrian	Bell View	Das Air	British Mid Land	Continental Cargo
Egypt Air	Eva Air	Emirates	Cathay Pacific	Ethiopean Airways
Fed Ex	Finn Air	Gulf Air	El Al Israel	Etihad Airways
China Eastern	Kenya Airways	Jet Airways	KLM Cargo	Korean Air
Lufthansa	Kuwait Airways	Oman Air	PIA	Qantas
Polish Airlines	Qatar Airways	Saudi Arabian	Swiss World Cargo	Singapore Airlines
Sri Lankan	Malaysian Airlines	South African	Syrian Arab	Thai Airways
Royal Jordanian	Uzbekistan	U.P.S.	Virgin Atlantic	Yemenia

 

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