Patent ID: 7313548

Claim:
A method for facilitating travel carrier optimization comprising the steps of: receiving data from a set of input parameters; facilitating data quality control processing on said data; preparing said data by subtracting rebates from client travel spend to compute a base net-sector price; defining constraint cells by at least one of airport pairs, class of service or ticket currency of origin; calculating global monetary rebate on said cells; computing global base client travel spend; building constraints from at least a portion of said data, wherein upper or lower limits are added to establish the client travel spend or sector for each carrier; deriving a maximum potential number of sectors; excluding the lowest value cells from a ticket data set; calculating a maximum potential limit correction for each travel carrier and cell; facilitating data quality controls, wherein low ticket prices are removed or the average sector price is adjusted to a mean value; adding a sector filters data set; adding a client travel spend filters data set; executing a goal programming processor to determine an optimal solution, wherein said optimal solution includes an optimal said sector, said carrier, said sector price, and said client travel spend; and, preparing a report based on said optimal solution.