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Reservations and Yield Management
Study Group
1996 Meeting
Reservations and 
You are cordially invited to the 1996 AGIFORS Reservations and Yield Management Study Group meeting scheduled to be held 10-13 March 1996 at the Hotel Zurich and La Residence in Zurich (ZRH). Swiss Air will host the meeting and the local arrangements coordinator is Ueli Birrer of Swiss Air.
Hotel Zurich and La Residence is located in the very heart of Zurich. Swiss Air negotiated:
These prices include breakfast buffet, service charges, taxes, use of indoor swimming pool, and a shuttle bus from and to the airport. The same room rates will be applicable for guests arriving before or staying after the meeting.
Delegates should book directly with the hotel using the hotel reservation form and settle their own account. Sufficient number of rooms have been blocked for the Study Group participants, but the hotel will not guarantee availability for the bookings received after 2 February 1996.
You can register for the meeting by returning the registration form to Umit Cholak preferably by Fax (or mail), or by sending the required information via SITA. If your organization is sending more than one delegate, please prepare a separate registration for everyone.
There will be a fee of CHF 225.00 for each person attending to cover the local expenses. This fee will cover conference room rental, mineral water, coffee break with croissants in the morning and fresh fruits or Danish pastry in the afternoon, as well as the three course business lunch with mineral water and coffee for Monday and Tuesday. Fee will be collected in cash or charge on Sunday night at the registration.
| Sunday, March 10 | ||
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Registration and welcome reception hosted by Swiss Air | |
| Monday, March 11 | ||
| Morning |
Airline review Vendor and academics' review Presentations |
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| Noon | Lunch provided at the hotel | |
| Afternoon | Presentations | |
| Evening | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, March 12 | ||
| Morning | Presentations | |
| Noon | Lunch provided at the hotel | |
| Afternoon | Presentations | |
| Evening | Open ( any suggestions ??? ) | |
| Wednesday, March 13 | ||
| Morning |
Presentations Study group business meeting (15 minutes) Closing |
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Airline, Vendor, and Academics' Review
Each participating organization is required to give a 3-5 minute oral summary of its current activities related to Reservations and Yield Management. The presentation should focus on the projects addressed in the last year since the last meeting, the progress made, and the plans for the coming year.
Active participation by the attendees of our meeting is necessary for it to be successful. The usefulness of this study group is only realized by a meaningful exchange of ideas between the participants. We therefore encourage you to share your work and ideas with the others in our industry in the form of a presentation to the group. A written copy of this presentation will be needed during the meeting for inclusion in the proceedings.
Presentations do not need to describe a completed or implemented work. An update on a long-term project or a discussion of ideas for the future development is often as interesting and useful to the group. If you are planning to make a presentation - it is highly encouraged - please indicate the title and the approximate length on the registration form and submit it as soon as possible. A short summary or abstract of your presentation is required by March 1, 1996.
Due to time constraints, we will give more priority to technical papers in the area of:
Vendors and Academics' Participation
Vendors and academics are allowed to attend our study group meetings, both to make presentations to our group and to attend the airline presentations.
Vendors who would like to set up demonstration should contact directly Petra Barandun, Assistant Director of Sales, Hotel Zurich (Tel: +41 1 363 6363 or +41 1 362 3683, or Fax +41 1 363 2769) to make necessary arrangements.
The definition of vendor is any person or company wanting to demonstrate tools, techniques, or hardware applicable to the study group. To the extend that AGIFORS members or their airlines are demonstrating products or techniques for the purpose of making sale, they are also defined as vendors and subject to the same conditions.
AGIFORS bylaws require that each vendor (each company, not each individual) pay a fee of $500 US to attend to the meeting. The fee applies whether or not the vendor chooses to make a presentation or to display any products. The fee should be in the form of a cheque or money order payable to AGIFORS and will be collected on the Sunday night at the registration.
Welcome Reception and Social Events
On Sunday, from 19:00 to 23:00 there will be a welcome reception by Swiss Air to give everybody an opportunity to meet the other participants before the conference. Vendors fees, conference fees and Monday night dinner fees will be collected during the reception. Conference fee can be paid to the hotel representative in cash or charge. Vendors fee must be paid to a Swiss Air representative in the form of a cheque or money order payable to AGIFORS.
On Monday evening, our host Swiss Air arranged a dinner in a beautiful restaurant overlooking Zurich. We will arrive at the restaurant after a 5 minutes walk and a 15 minutes train ride. The fee for the night will be around CHF 48 which will include the dinner, the train ride, and two cups of hot tea (which is strongly recommended after lots of Swiss cheese.). The fee for the dinner will be collected in cash during the Sunday night reception. Since it may be necessary to make a special train arrangements depending on the size of the group, I would urge everybody to register for the dinner on Sunday night if they are interested.
For transportation, participants who are working for an airline are asked to go through their regular interline channels. For non-airline participants, Swiss Air will provide limited number of B1, positive space tickets on Swiss Air. United Airlines will provide space available, domestic, tickets to the Swiss Air gateways. Participants who need ticket should let me know as soon as possible. Active participants will have higher priority in the distribution of these tickets if there are excess number of tickets requested.
We will need a host airline for the 1997 meeting. It has been our practice to alternate between different geographic areas. The last two meetings were held in North America and Europe. For the next year, our first choice would be South America or Asia. If your airline is based in those areas, and attends the study group meetings regularly, and has not hosted in the recent past, please seriously consider offering to help by hosting the meeting next year. And it would be helpful if the volunteers receive an approval from their administration before they arrive in Zurich.
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updated January 29,1996 by John D. Quillinan
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