Patent ID: 8280870

Claim:
A method of pricing at least one itinerary, the method comprising: receiving data in a first format representing one or more flights of a ticketless access carrier into a reverse pricing engine of a global distribution system; in the reverse pricing engine, standardizing the data from the ticketless access carrier from the first format to a first set of data having a second format and including a first pricing element for each flight of the first carrier; communicating the first set of data to an enhanced universal faring engine; receiving into the enhanced universal faring engine a second set of data in the second format representing one or more flights of a standard carrier and including a second pricing element for each flight of the standard carrier; and combining the first and second sets of data of the second format in a mixed solutions engine to establish a third pricing element for the at least one itinerary comprised of a mixed recommendation including the first pricing element of at least one of the flights from the ticketless access carrier and the second pricing element of at least one of the flights from the standard carrier.