Specialist Interline and Code Share Analyst

Closing Date: 2 June 2025

Location: Gauteng, Kempton Park

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to achieve the maximization revenue from interline channels through relationships with interline partners to expand the Airline’s network pricing reach; to establish, manage and maintain effective relationships with partner and other airlines worldwide.

The incumbent will be required to provide support to the Alliances team by negotiating, concluding and implementing agreements and processes to provide competitive pricing in relevant markets and to support alliance and interline agreements.

Principal Accountabilities

• Assist to identify and conclude effective and profitable prorate and interline agreements with airlines to access incremental traffic opportunities 
• Implement Inventory Optimization strategies, plans, actions, methodology and tactics to capture such traffic 
• Develop and implement revenue plans to maximize interline revenue performance 
• Assist the Alliances team in delivering alliances revenue performance to achieve the Airline’s strategic objectives from partnerships 
• Develop, maintain value-generating relationships with interline, affiliate and strategic partners for revenue and for accessing incremental revenue sources  
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders  
• Liaise to coordinate activities directed at achieving and optimising interline, network and alliances revenue performance 
• Participate in trade meetings 
• Build a high profile amongst industry peers to ensure that the Airline remains at the forefront interline knowledge 
• Assist coordinating SPA, Interlining and Alliance pricing activities with internal stakeholders (Alliance team, Sales etc.) and partner airlines 
• Ensure effective relationship with Sales offices worldwide to coordinate interline revenue generating strategies and actions 
• Assist in communicating relevant interline and pricing information to users and stakeholders 
• Execute interline/alliance relationship management and Inventory Optimization strategy  
• Represent the Airline at IATA working groups to promote the Airline’s interline revenue performance mandate
• Implement prorate agreements, interline agreements, and competitive fare products, conditions and rules in line with the Airline’s Inventory Optimization strategy  
• Identify profitable opportunities for expansion or revenue improvement for the Airline regarding interline pricing and airlines with whom it should develop relationships  
• Implement the Airline’s worldwide interline and alliances Inventory Optimization strategies  
• Monitor for variances between the Airline’s competitive positioning and the interline strategies and plans and recommend corrective action as required 
• Deliver fares to market in an efficient, accurate and timely manner  
• Analyse existing agreements and identify revenue improvement opportunities     
• Assist providing insight into interline market dynamics and the Airline’s competitiveness and trading performance  
• Provide relevant, accurate and on-time reporting on revenue and interline performance to management and key internal stakeholders  
• Utilises resources in area of responsibility  
• Optimise technology to enhance internal and external customer expectations  
• Implements processes to deliver customer value  
• Drives customer centricity within areas of control  
• Maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships through appropriate relationship building and networking   
• Enforce Governance and Risk Management policies, processes and systems   
• Deliver on regular and timeous reporting of information to key stakeholders   
• Drive continuous optimisation programmes & initiatives 
• Engage in trend analysis, benchmarking, research, best practice to support optimisation of department 
• Manages projects to contribute to the optimisation of the department/ division  

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree/ diploma/ applicable IATA qualification and/or 5 – 7 years’ experience in relevant field 
• Demonstrated experience in Fare construction principles  
• Understanding and ability to read and interpret airline tickets will be an advantage 

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrate experience and expert knowledge / skills of airline prorate agreements as well as demonstrate efficiency in analytic and problem solving techniques  
• Knowledge of the markets within which the airline operates 
• Thorough knowledge of Multilateral Prorate Agreement and its effect on airline revenue 
• Filing of Chart 2 SPA booking classes in ATPCO and to ensure SPA partners filed their booking classes of the agreed SPA
• Commercial acumen
• Financial acumen
• Analytical
• Influencing skills
• Collaboration skills
• Presentation skills
• Communication skills (written & verbal) in English
• Negotiation skills
• Project management
• Data analysis

Attributes

• Engages in crucial conversations 
• Manages projects 
• Facilitates change and innovation 
• Implements and aligns to vision  
• Delivers value 
• Values team diversity 
• Role models behaviours and values 

Additional Information

SAA is using an online recruitment tool. Applicants are required to complete an individual registration profile capturing essential personal and career selection criteria. Applicants must please note that they only need to complete the online registration once and thereafter they can update their online profiles as and when necessary.

Specialist Interline and Code Share Analyst

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