Announcing new improved interfaces to the Aircraft
Booking System.
Away from your computer but want to check on the availability of your
aircraft?
Now all you
need is your mobile phone to check up on bookings and you have a choice of 3 methods
of checking on your aircraft availability.
Via SMS Text
Send the following format (SMS) text to this number 01138 59 06 90
txtback g-regi 2010-04-28 +
where:
txtback is a required keyword to tell the
system what service you require (i.e. text back)
g-regi is
the aircraft registration managed by ABS that you want to check the bookings
for.
2010-04-28 is the date that you want to check
availability for in the format yyyy-mm-dd. Note -
this can also be the words "today" or "tomorrow" to give bookings for those
dates. If the date field is left off the message then it will default to today.
+ is optional and this will give as
many future date bookings up to the 160 character limit imposed by a text
message.
Some examples:
txtback g-regi
will text back booking information for
G-REGI for today.
txtback g-regi
today
will text back booking information for
G-REGI for today.
txtback g-regi
tomorrow
will text back booking information for
G-REGI for tomorrow.
txtback g-regi
2010-06-30
will text back booking information for
G-REGI for 30th June 2010.
txtback g-regi
2010-07-20 +
will text back booking information for
G-REGI for 20th July 2010 and any other bookings past that date up
to the 160 character limit imposed by a standard text message.
Charges - You will be charged your standard text messaging
rate for your outgoing text message and you will need to have purchased text
back tokens via our ABS system to enable the system to text you back messages.
50 text back tokens cost 10 GBP (pounds sterling) and can be purchased online via the Text back
Token top up link.
Via an Email
Send an email to egateway@aircraftbooking.co.uk
and put the aircraft registration in the subject line (nothing
else). All bookings stored on the system from the current date onwards will be
emailed back to the requesting email address.
Charges - There are no charges for this service.
Via a Voice Call
(call back)
Send the following format (SMS) text to this number 01138 59 06 90
voiceback g-regi 2010-04-28 +
where:
voiceback is a required keyword to tell the
system what service you require (i.e. voice callback)
g-regi is
the aircraft registration managed by ABS that you want to check the bookings
for.
2010-04-28 is the date that you want to check
availability for in the format yyyy-mm-dd. Note -
this can also be the words "today" or "tomorrow" to give bookings for those
dates. If the date field is left off the message then it will default to today.
+ is optional and this will give as
many future date bookings up to the 300 character limit imposed by the voice
message system.
Some examples:
voiceback g-regi
will call you back with booking
information for G-REGI for today.
voiceback g-regi
today
will call you back with booking
information for G-REGI for today.
voiceback g-regi
tomorrow
will call you back with booking
information for G-REGI for tomorrow.
voiceback g-regi
2010-06-30
will call you back with booking
information for G-REGI for 30th June 2010.
voiceback g-regi
2010-07-20 +
will call you back with booking
information for G-REGI for 20th July 2010 and any other bookings
past that date up to the 300 character limit imposed by the voice message
system.
Charges - You will be charged your standard text messaging
rate for your outgoing text message and you will need to have purchased text
back tokens via our ABS system to enable the system to call you back with voice
messages. 50 text back tokens cost 10 GBP (pounds sterling) and can be purchased online via the Text
back Token top up link.
Notes:
1) To use text back or call back, you
must have stored your mobile phone number correctly under member details.
2) Mobile phone number must be stored
in either 07????????? (standard format with no spaces)
or 447????????? (country code with no leading 0 and no
spaces). Any spurious non numeric characters stored will result in the system
not being able to send messages to your mobile phone.
3) Text back and call back services are
currently only available to +44