SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

STREAM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Software Design and Architecture

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project title Air ticket reservation system

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 Table of content

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List of tables-------------------------------------------------------------- 3

Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4

Background of the Project---------------------------------------------- 4

Team Composition------------------------------------------------------- 4

Tasks and Schedule------------------------------------------------------ 5

Problem of statement---------------------------------------------------- 5

Objective of the project-------------------------------------------------- 6

Scope of the Project------------------------------------------------------ 6

Methodology------------------------------------------------------------- 6

Limitation of the Project ----------------------------------------------- 7

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table 1………………………………group members

table 2……………………………… Development Tools

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Abstract

Nowadays, it becomes more and more popular to buy airline tickets through online systems. People
enjoy buying airline tickets online because of the convenience brought by the Internet. Many travel site
provide services which help travelers find airline tickets for their travel plans. In addition to providing the
same services that a traditional airline ticket booking system would provide, these websites provide
enhanced services such as searching through a list of possible flights according to a user's constraints
Generally Online Booking consists of procedures like Reservation, Cancellation, Availability of Seats,
Timetable, etc.

Background of the Project

The development Airlines of Ethiopia (DAE) is one of the financial institutions engaged in
providing short, medium, and long term development credits. Development Airlines of Ethiopia
distinguishes features is its project based lending tradition. Project financed by the Airlines are
carefully selected and prepared through appraised. Supervised and systematically evaluated.

Team Composition

Project Title Air ticket reservation system

Prepared By S No. Name ID. No. Email/Mobile Responsibility
1 Abey Getachew 03034628 abeyget@gmail.com Team leader
2 Daniel Gebrehiwot 03035200 nicedannyg82@gmail.com
3 Ledetu Tekle 03035313
4 Ephrem Mitiku 02021962
5 Fuad Mudesir
Date
Advisor
table 1

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Tasks and Schedule

We will conduct our study in a team of five students, each of which is responsible for the project
accomplishment. We will meet three times in a week for two weeks, and will stay on to observe our work
for approximately 12 hours during the four week period.

Statement of the Problem

Every Airline company is charged with the responsibility of ensuring to give safe and comfortable
service for its customers. To ensure this quality of service, the companies which works on this business
should reach to their customers and give a quality service to compute in the market. And this include easy
ticket reservation and cancelation system. In the manual system, the daily reservation list for all flights is
generated and sent. Very often, they cannot put up the reservation list on time. Owing to the inefficiencies
in the manual system, when passengers cancel tickets, the reservation list is not updated in time. They
maintains a waiting list, which is used to update the reservation list when passengers cancel tickets.
Currently, the manual system handles all requests for changes in reservation. It treats a change of this
kind as a cancellation, and reissues tickets. Reservation opens few days before the scheduled departure
date. Based on the availability of seats the tickets are issued. Each ticket, whether confirmed or wait-
listed, has a unique identification number. This number is generated in a serial order. The reservation
clerk records the amount of fare paid for the ticket in Cash Collection Register. A passenger can cancel
tickets by submitting a cancellation form with the ticket. Depending on the difference in hours between
the departure and cancellation the passenger loses certain percentage of the fare.

Limitation of the manual system

The limitations of the manual system are

1. Only few bookings could be made due to manual operation.

2. It takes enormous amount of time for recording transactions.
3. Requires a large amount of manual laborers.
4. Customers should go to ticket offices to reserve a ticket and cancel it.

Proposed system

In order to overcome the drawbacks in the manual system, it was decided to create a system, which is

Integrated
Reliable
Consistent
Flexible
Secure

This system helps in speedy information retrieval. Responds to various queries made at the different
levels of management. The system is Menu driven and user friendly with attractive html interface. It
assists the user with respective messages to overcome the errors at runtime. The system is designed in
such a way that the reservation list is available on time before the scheduled departure time. The
reservation list reflects the latest status with respect to the cancellation of tickets that helps the wait-listed

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passenger in knowing their present status. In the new system customers could reserve and cancel tickets
from anywhere which have an internet access.

Objective of the project

General Objective:

The main goal of the proposed system is to make online the processes of the air ticket reservation and
cancelation system.

Specific Objectives:

Some of the Specific Objectives of the system are listed below:

To create a distributed system that will be used by customers.

To ensure that ticket reservation is easy and user friendly for customers.
To satisfy customers need by reaching them at their place.
Reduce the work load of the ticket officers.
Provide large number of ticket reservation and cancelation service in a few time.

Scope of the project

This project designs and implements air ticket reservation system. Supported by a well-designed
database, all available air flight information is integrated together and can be accessed easily
through a single point. A friendly user interface is provided so that various combinations of
search criteria can be fetched from user and generates corresponding database search statements.
The air ticket reservation system provided both customer and administration interfaces with the latter
used for administration purposes. If time permits, the reservation system will support frequent user
registration and personal information management.

Methodology

System Development Methodology

The development process adopted by the team is a waterfall model. The waterfall model proceeds from
one phase to the next in a sequential manner. First we complete requirements specification based on our
analysis. We then plan on exactly what has to be achieved at the end of the project. We then proceed to
the design phase where we determine how the goals set for there going to be met and how the deliverables
are going to be achieved. This will be done by making a blueprint for the design phase to help the group
members have a fair idea of what is expected of the system and what should be included in it and what
should not.

Fact-finding Techniques

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 Questioner
Interview
Literature review

Development Tools

Activities Tools/ Programs

Client side coding HTML
Client side scripting JavaScript
Platform Windows
Database server MySQL
Web server Wamp server
Server-side scripting php
Browsers Mozilla Firefox 26.0
Editors Macromedia Dreamweaver, Enterprise architecture, MS Visio
Documentation MS Word, Adobe reader
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Required Resources with Costs

Limitation of the Project

This project is limited in the following boundary

1. Online ticket reservation and cancelation service

2. Provide flight information for the passengers