民用航空运营专业英语简称

Term Definition

ABT Automated Baggage Tag

ASA Airport Services Advisory Group ATC Air Traffic Control

Automated Document Check A system software that provides check-in staff and passengers with automated decisions about travel document requirements. A joint effort on the part of 11 member carriers, it was rolled out to the first airline, Singapore, in July 2008.

BIR Star Alliance Baggage Information Repository

BRS Baggage Reconciliation System

BSM Baggage Source Message

BSS Baggage Sort System

BTM Baggage Transfer Message

CBSF Common Baggage Services Facility (Star Alliance Carriers); lost and found offices are located here.

CITP Star Alliance Common IT Platform. The platform will replace the member airline’s key customer systems such as reservations,

inventory, ticketing and check-in. The new platform improves

airlines’ efficiency within the Alliance through common services

and ease of use, as well as providing better quality and common

data for airline service agents when dealing with customers. Codeshare A term often used to describe a flight where the operating airline allows seats/space to be sold by one or more other airlines, and

all participants in such an agreement sell their seats/space on that

flight under their flight designator.

CPM Container/Pallet Message

DCS Departures Control System

Delivering Carrier A Star Alliance carrier transporting Star Alliance transfer baggage to any given station.

Delivering Locations The point at which the receiving carrier accepts Star Alliance transfer baggage and at which location the receiving carrier becomes responsible for this baggage.

EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange Messages

EU European Union

IATA International Air Transport Association

IOSA IATA Operational Safety Audit, the first global standard for airline

operational safety auditing. Star Alliance was the first airline alliance

to fully endorse IOSA, and IOSA certification is required for joining

the alliance.

KPI Key Performance indicator

LDM Load Message

Marketing Carrier The carrier that sells with its own code as part of a codeshare agreement on a flight actually operated by another carrier.

MCT Minimum Connecting Time

Move under one Roof (MuoR)A Star Alliance project that brings carriers together in the same terminal to deliver faster transfers for passengers and their bags.

Operating Carrier The carrier that holds the Air Operator’s Certificate for the aircraft used for a flight.

PAWOB Passenger Arrived Without Baggage (UA and AC terminology) PNL Passenger Name List

PNR Passenger Name Record

PTM Passenger Transfer Message

Receiving Carrier A Star Alliance carrier receiving Star Alliance transfer baggage from a partner airline at any given station.

SAC Star Alliance Coordinator: The Chairman of the local (airport) Star Alliance Team, usually the landlord carrier or the carrier with the

largest traffic volume.

SAT Star Alliance Airport Team at Major Hubs

SI Special Instructions line (on the Load Message)

Star Alliance Connections (formerly Connection Centres) Located in key hubs in Charlotte, Munich, Frankfurt, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bangkok and Narita. Staff meet arriving planes and escort passengers with tight connections through the airport formalities to ensure they make their flights.