Patent ID: 8768735

Claim:
A method of assessing travel service fees for a travel transaction, the method comprising: retrieving, by the computer, a previously stored passenger name record PNR or creating a passenger name record (PNR); retrieving, by the computer, a price scheme applicable to said PNR, wherein said price scheme is associated to a set of rules and to a set of unitary fees; creating, by the computer, at least one associated transitional stored ticket (TST); creating, by the computer, associated service fee records (SFR); retrieving, by the computer, the data of TST and SFR associated to the PNR; computing, by the computer, travel fares and a plurality of service fee elements with a fee calculator based on the set of rules and the set of unitary fees associated to the applicable price scheme, and on the data of the PNR and the data of the TST; determining, by the computer, travel fares and travel service fees of more than one travel option with the fee calculator comprising combining the plurality of service fee elements into said travel service fees; displaying said travel fares of the more than one travel option; displaying said travel service fees of the more than one travel option; and inserting, by the computer, said travel service fees into said SFR, thereby ending assessment of said travel service fees related to said PNR.