AIRLINE TICKET AUCTION METHOD AND ITS SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an airline ticket auction system, highly convenient for users who want to buy airline tickets and contributive to improving auction participation willingness.;SOLUTION: An auction server 12 sets the minimum sales price of the airline ticket assigned by an airline company 40. An auction program 20 divides the minimum sales price by the frequency of installment payment and sets the divided price to be a bid receiving start price which is exhibited on an auction page via Internet 70. When a successful bidder is determined, an accommodation selection program 26 estimates the conditions of an accommodation 50 required by the successful bidder (a participant 60) in accordance with flight information for the successfully bidded airline ticket and the number of successful bids. With reference to an accommodation database 18 in accordance with the estimation result, the list of corresponding accommodations is displayed on a screen.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO