Rental operations at large airports often run separate rental counters in each terminal. It is often convenient to set up internal locations in CARS+ to represent each terminal. This program is used to designate which flight numbers for each airline arrive at the different terminals or rental counters.

For example, assume an airport has a domestic terminal and an international terminal. Although all of the reservations are for the main airport location code, the rental operation needs to divide the reservations so that each of the terminals can access their reservations through the Reservation Manifest, Vehicle Prep Report, and Res Display.

Two types of records can be added to this file:

• Records that actually change the pickup location of a reservation received from an external reservation center. These records make use of Field 7. Currently, the only program that makes use of these records is the Hertz Reservation Interface program.
• Records that are used by the Reservation Manifest program and the Res Display screen to limit reservations expected at a single rental counter. These records leave Field 7 blank and use instead Field 8. User tip: For this feature to work, the field "Drawer Input" in Configure Res Display must be set to "Y".

To access Edit Flights for Locations, type EDTFLI (RET) at any menu "OPTION:"field or the appropriate line number on the Location Control Files Menu. The screen will then display:

OPTION: __ EDIT FLIGHTS FOR LOCATIONS 1. Reservation Loc. 2. Start Date 3. End Date 4. Airline Code 5. Start Flight No 6. End Flight No 7. Pickup Loc 8. Pickup Drw 1SAVE 2NEXT 3ERASE 4DELETE 5 6 7HELP 8

Enter data as follows:

1. RESERVATION LOC.	Enter the pick up location code used by the reservation interface program. EXAMPLE: Type TOR10 (RET)
2. START DATE	Using your selected date format, enter the pick up date when this location conversion should begin. EXAMPLE: Type 010116 (RET)
3. END DATE	Using your selected date format, enter the pick up date when this location conversion should end. If there is not a definite ending date, this field can be blank. Press (RET)
4. AIRLINE CODE	Enter the airline code. EXAMPLE: Press AC (RET)
5. START FLIGHT NO.	This field and the next one define a range of flight numbers. Reservations with a flight number in this range will be converted. Enter a starting flight number. The flight number fields are alpha-numeric and accept up to 10 characters. If the flight number range is numeric, use leading zeros so that all numbers within the range are included. For example, to include numbers 1 - 100, enter '001' in this field and '100' in the next field. EXAMPLE: Type 015 (RET)
6. END FLIGHT NO.	Enter an ending flight number. EXAMPLE: Type 199 (RET)
7. PICKUP LOC	Enter the Location Code that should be used for servicing these flights. Note, if data is entered into this field, the next field must remain empty. EXAMPLE:Type TOR11 (RET)
8. PICKUP DRW	Enter the Drawer Code for the counter that should be used for servicing these flights. This field cannot be used if data was entered in Field 7. EXAMPLE:Type 11 (RET)

PRESS "F1" AT "OPTION" TO SAVE THE RECORD.

EXAMPLE 1:

OPTION: __ EDIT FLIGHTS FOR LOCATIONS 1. Reservation Loc. TOR10 2. Start Date 01-01-16 3. End Date 4. Airline Code AC 5. Start Flight No 015 6. End Flight No 199 7. Pickup Loc TOR11 8. Pickup Drw 1BEGIN 2 3ERASE 4 5BACKUP 6 7HELP 8

The record above defines that starting 1/1/2016, all reservations coming in for Toronto location TOR10 on Air Canada flights 15 through 199 will be stored with pickup location TOR11.

EXAMPLE 2:

OPTION: __ EDIT FLIGHTS FOR LOCATIONS 1. Reservation Loc. TOR10 2. Start Date 01-01-16 3. End Date 4. Airline Code AC 5. Start Flight No 015 6. End Flight No 199 7. Pickup Loc 8. Pickup Drw 11 1BEGIN 2 3ERASE 4 5BACKUP 6 7HELP 8

The record above defines that starting 1/1/2016, all reservations coming in for Toronto location TOR10 on Air Canada flights 15 through 199 will be served by the rental counter with Cash Drawer 11.