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  1. What mileage radius should the system use to offer alternate airports and cities when a user searches for a single airport or city? Enter the radius of miles to specify the area around the "target" or "parent" airport or city in which alternative airports will appear. Choose the unit of measure for the distance. We recommend using 60 – 75 miles.
  2. Select a method for shopping airline itineraries: Choose GDS, ITA, or Use super domain setting from the dropdown menu.
    1. Note:  We recommend using ITA or the super domain setting
    or
    1. (also set to ITA).
  3. Select a method for shopping airline itineraries with a non-US origin or destination: Choose With GDS price confirmation or Without GDS price confirmation (recommended) from the dropdown menu.
  4. Enabled schedule based shopping for airline itineraries: Choose YesNo, or Use superdomain setting from the dropdown menu.
  5. Default search method: Choose By priceBy schedule, or Use superdomain setting from the dropdown menu.
    1. Note:  We recommend searching by price.  Defaulting to schedule can make the search appear slower since it takes the system much longer to parse in schedule results from the GDS whereas price search is much faster and the results render more quickly.
  6. Select the earliest limit of the time range that will be used to search all US domestic and Canadian airline availability based on the user’s requested time: Times range from 1 hour to 1 day, in hour increments. We recommend 2 hours.
  7. Select the latest limit of the time range that will be used to search all US domestic and Canadian airline availability based on the user’s requested time: Times range from 1 hour to 1 day, in hour increments. We recommend 2 hours.
  8. Select the earliest limit of the time range that will be used to search all non-US domestic and non-Canadian airline availability based on the user’s requested time:  Times range from 1 hour to 1 day, in hour increments. We recommend 4 or 5 hours due to fewer available flights.
  9. Select the latest limit of the time range that will be used to search all non-US domestic and non-Canadian airline availability based on the user’s requested time: Times range from 1 hour to 1 day, in hour increments. We recommend 4 or 5 hours due to fewer available flights.

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  1. Display Nearby Airports by default: Choose Yes to display nearby airports automatically, or No to not show them unless the user clicks the Nearby Airports checkbox while shopping for flights.
  2. Expand flight results to include non-stops when available: Choose YesNo, or Use superdomain setting from the dropdown menu. We recommend choosing Yes or Use superdomain setting to allow search results to expand to show non-stops when the search criteria would otherwise not have returned them. Choosing No will not expand the search results.Enable flexible date and weekend search: Choose YesNo, or Use superdomain setting from the dropdown menu. We recommend choosing Yes or Use superdomain setting to display a matrix of flights available over several days to allow selection of the best flight solution. Choosing No will not display the matrix.
  3. Enable flexible fare search:  Choose Yes, No, or Use superdomain setting from the dropdown menu.  We recommend choosing Yes or Use superdomain setting to display the flexible search options.  (Sabre only) 
  4. Default the flight results sorting view to: Choose Use superdomain setting, Policy/Preferred, Cost, Departure, Arrival, or Duration from the dropdown menu. 

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