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Indraneel Dutta
TP 032724
TP 028536
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Choo Chee Hong
Individual part- Real Time Systems
TP 029156
Indraneel Dutta:
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Abstract
This report is aimed to discuss the topics learnt in computer and IT in workplace. The following
report will research and discuss on Malaysia Airlines online ticketing system or e-Ticketing
system, also to find information about the system that lead the organization to success.
This report contains information about the Malaysia Airlines e-Ticketing system and current
functionality, processes, advantage, and disadvantage, and the impact of the technology, the
recommendations that we suggest for this organization, and also the similarities and differences
with the topics that we have learnt in our module. This report is referenced according to the
Harvard Referencing system.
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Table of Contents
1) Introduction-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 3
2) The Current Scenario------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 4
3) Functionality----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 5
3.1) Visiting the Website----------------------------------------------------------------------Page 5
3.2) Scheduling and Checking flights-------------------------------------------------------Page 6
3.3) Booking and purchasing------------------------------------------------------------------Page 7
3.3.1) Search--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 8
3.3.2) Selection-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 9
3.3.3) Summary----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 10
3.3.4) Travellers----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 12
3.3.5) Payment------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 13
3.3.6) Confirmation------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 14
4) Advantages-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 16
5) Disadvantages----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 16
6) Impact of the Technology---------------------------------------------------------------------Page 17
7) Recommendations -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 19
8) Conclusion--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 20
9) Real Time systems----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 21
9) Ethical and Legal issues-----------------------------------------------------------------------Page 24
10) Internet Application----------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 27
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1) Introduction
Malaysia Airlines is one the leading airlines in the world operating from its home base Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia Airlines operated flights in whole of Asia except the Russian part. It
operates over 60 destinations worldwide. It has strong presence in the Southeast Asia. Founded
in 1972, its fleet has now 101 operating aircrafts and 24 more orders have been placed. It also
one of the most preferred airlines for people traveling in Southeast Asia.
(Malaysia Airlines, 2013)
The information discussed in this following report is about the e-Ticketing system of Malaysia
airlines. This system is a result of effort of the company to provide an easy and superlative
facility to the customers to travel at best fares. The e-Ticketing system provides and allows the
customer to search for the best air fares available for better saving according to their selected
origin and destinations and preferred date of travel. Most of the people travelling through
Malaysia Airlines prefer booking through this system as it is a better option and more laidback
way of finding the best fare suitable for oneself.
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3) Functionality
To purchase and book a ticket for Malaysian Airlines is easy.
Figure 1. The first page of the Google search result of Malaysian airlines
You can click on the flight timetable to check the flights that are available. The customers can
then decide their wanted date for the flight.
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3.3.1) Search:
The customers could go ahead and then choose the type of trip they want. Then they could
choose the country they want to depart from, and the arrival country. They then must choose the
type of class they wanted to travel on and the number and type of passengers. It is important to
choose whether they have a flexible travelling date or a specific must travel date. If the
customers have coupons, they could enter them while on this page.
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3.3.2) Selection:
Here, the customers could choose their desired date. Two price ranges are available for the flight,
The MH Smart and MH Flex. The difference between these two flights is that the MH Flex can
choose their seats in advance whereas the MH Smarts option is only available with a fee. The
MH Smart can change the departure date but for a price unlike the MH Flex which is only need
to give the price difference of the ticket they are changing.
Sometimes, there is an option of the MH Basic, but it depends on the route the customers are
taking. This type of ticket is the cheapest and it cannot be refunded or transferred. The departure
date cant be changed. This type of ticket should be choose if the traveller is sure of the departure
date, if by some means, he couldnt make it, the ticket would be unusable.
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3.3.3) Summary:
The users can then head on to the summary page. In this step, the summary of the flight
information is given. The users should reconfirm and check the data here. They could also buy
health insurance if they want to. To proceed to the next step, two choices are given, whether to
continue as a member, that is if the customer is registered as to Malaysian Airlines or as a guest.
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3.3.4) Travellers:
In this step, the passengers should fill in their personal information.
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Figure 12: Continuation of the Fields to enter the information of the passenger
The user can then proceed to choose seats they desire or go directly to the next step, making
payment. Below displayed is a site where the customer can choose the seats.
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3.3.5) Payment:
The users are able to make payments here through different sources such as Maybank card or a
MasterCard.
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3.3.6) Confirmation:
By clicking confirm in this page, the users have already bought the ticket and the information of
the ticket will have being sent to their email address.
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Advantages
People these days want things to be done easy and in comfort. To make this possible, Malaysia
Airlines has the internet booking system or e-Ticketing system that allows stress free booking for
travelers. Also, the airline has its perks for having this facility as it reduces a lot manual work.
Due to this facility available to the customers, booking can be done from anywhere and by
anyone. Some advantages of e-Ticketing are discussed below.
An e-ticket offers many advantages for both travelers and airlines, including security, flexibility,
cost and convenience. It allows a faster and more convenient way for the verification of ticket. It
allows saving to the customer because of its pay-as-you-go feature. If the tickets are lost, they
can be replaced as the data is already stored in the computer database. E-Ticketing allows
Mitigation of ticket forgery. It has the ability to create flexible fares and schemes. It saves a lot of
time by processing bookings and avoiding double handling of data.
Easy payments is also a biggest advantage of online booking as payments can be made directly
through credit cards and debit cards and the booking is confirmed immediately to the customer.
There is no need for any kind of deposits or cash for online type of booking. Online booking
system requires very less labor and physical work from the airline as it is entirely computerized.
This reduces the companys investment in human capital and makes more profit. And lastly it
helps attract more customers and generate more revenue.
5) Disadvantages
Along with solid benefits and advantages, e-Ticketing system can raise several problems. Some
disadvantages and problems are discussed below.
As online booking is new to the world, some people are not still familiar with this method.
This causes a huge chance of making a mistake. A simple mistake as writing the spelling of
your name wrong might cause authentication problems later. This is one the biggest
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can get through and steal money through unsecured payment gateways, also can gain access
6) Impact Of Technology
This piece of technology has revolutionized the way airlines work. The process is much faster
and efficient. But it has a lot of impact both on the organization, both positively and negatively.
This online booking and ticketing system has revolutionize the way an organization works. It has
become more effective. Usually, according to the number of customers enquiring information for
their flights, the organization has to employ sufficient number of people to deal with them.
Larger number of employees could lead to a larger number of expenditures. In addition to that,
the organization has to employ a driver to deliver the traditional tickets. But, thanks to this new
system, as most of the customers started rely on the online system, the organization could reduce
the number of employees, hence reducing the cost of expenditures and maximizing the profit. In
addition to that, the online system has made the business run 24 hours. The customers could log
onto the website and purchase the ticket at any time unlike the old days when the customer must
make it to the seller before 9 pm to purchase the ticket.
Looking at the dark side of this technology, it could be seen that most of the people who dont
know have much knowledge in using the internet, could be tricked by some sites into buying
fake tickets, thus reducing the image quality of the company.
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Recommendation/Proposals
In this assignment, I found out that Malaysia Airlines online booking and e-ticketing system can
do some improvements and provide better services.
One of the problems that occurred on their website is limited to one language only which is
English for most of the countries. It is understandable that English is the most common language
used in the world. However, not everyone from other countries can understand and read English
very well such as China and Japan. They might be using translator or dictionary to translate the
word that they are not familiar into their languages which will reduce the effectiveness of the
system. On the other hand, they also might misinterpret the meaning of some words on the
website which can cause serious issue. They can get confuse especially the transaction part. This
will greatly affect the reputation of the company as the customer is not satisfied with the system.
Therefore, more languages should be added on the website depending on the countries.
Moreover, page translation feature should also be available on the website.
Besides that, many unexpected incidents can happen during the online booking process due to
bad internet connection. One can lose their money if they had bad internet connection during the
payment process. This is because the server might have receive the details but users computer
unable to receive the feedback and therefore error message pop out in the system. Therefore, they
should change the system so that they claim the money from the customers only after they
delivered the feedback to the users computer to avoid any unnecessary conflict.
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Conclusion
From this assignment, we learned about the online booking and e-ticketing system of Malaysia
Airlines as well as other airlines too. We also knew how the system works and operates.
Moreover, we learned about teamwork while completing this assignment. We had done a lot of
research regarding online booking and e-ticketing system and finally able to finish it in time.
Besides that, we also realize the importance of information technology system to assist human in
workplace. It seems that the information technology system has replaced most of the human
works which is not a bad thing as it is more systematic. Information technology system can
works 24 hours a day while human normally works 8 to 10 hours a day. On the other hand,
information technology system also has weakness where it needs to be updated frequently by
human otherwise it is useless. The assistance of information technology system in the workplace
has its advantages and disadvantages. Even though information technology system can make our
work much easier but we should not rely on it too much.
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Real-Time Systems
In this module, I found that the topic of real-time systems has the similarities and differences
with Malaysia Airlines online booking and e-ticketing system. A real-time system is any
information processing system which has to respond to externally generated input stimuli within
a finite and specified period where the correctness depends not only on the logical result but also
the time it was delivered (Stefan, 2008). Real-time system are usually classified into 3 categories
which are hard, soft, and firm.
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Dependable Systems
There is another system that can relate to the Malaysia Airlines online booking system in this
topic which is dependable systems. There are four aspects of dependable systems which are
available, reliable, safe, and secure. As for available, Malaysia Airlines website is always
available where customers can access the website anytime to book their flight. On the other
hand, the information on the website is reliable because the information is originally from their
company and it is also their official website. Lastly, it is safe and secure because the
confidentiality of customers information that books the flight is also preserved.
In order to achieve dependability, it is also included fault avoidance, fault removal, fault
tolerance, and fault forecasting. However, it could not eliminate all the error but it can be
minimized.
Fault Types
a) Permanent faults:Permanent faults are caused by irreversible device failures within a component due to
damage, fatigue, or improper manufacturing. Once a permanent fault has occurred, the
faulty component can be restored by replacement or repair (Webspace 2, 2013). For
example, if the server is broken or damage, the online booking and e-ticketing system of
Malaysia Airlines cannot be accessed.
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As majority of the tickets booked to travel with Malaysian Airlines is booked through online
booking system, Malaysia Airlines have their own way to protect user data and information.
A few protection types are discussed below:
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Internet Application
According to the merriam-webster.com, the internet is described as:
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational
computer facilities around the world. (merriam-webster.com, 2013)
The first information on the development of the internet was first heard in the 1958 (hnn.us,
2013) when the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was research on this technology
for the US military. In todays world, the internet is widely used by everyone around the world.
The World Wide Web or WWW is the collection of electronic documents; it is also known
simply as the web. Each of these documents is called the web page. A web page consist of a
variety of objects such as files, multimedia such as a video, information, etc. It may sometimes
also include a Uniform Resource Locator or URL which is a link which directs to a different
webpage. They are written in a special language called the Hypertext Markup Language or
HTML. A collection of these web pages is called a web site.
A specific program or software, called the web browser is needed to open these webpages and to
connect with the Internet, for example Safari, Google Chrome and the Internet Explorer.
With the technology of the internet, Malaysian Airlines can be assessed at any place at any time.
The accessibility of the internet has brought convenience to both the organization and the
customers. The customers can view data on the flight time and buy the ticket at anytime and at
anywhere. This could also bring the organization more sales and profit.
The domain name: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en.html, directs the users to the
Malaysian Airlines official website. On this site the users can book and plan their desire flight
time. In addition to that, they can also check the price, flight status and other information such as
amount of the weight of the baggage allowed. On the other hand, the customers can observe the
deals the Malaysian Airlines have, and if they want to, could buy them. This website can be
opened by any web browser, including mobile applications, and can be searched on any search
engine. Members can login to the website with their User ID and password, if not a member yet,
they could also sign up. In addition to that, they could look at the Frequently Asked Question
(FAQ) and terms and condition of the flight on the website, or they can also contact them if they
wishes to.
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gure 4: Logging In
References
Malaysia Airlines. 2013. Destinations | Malaysia Airlines. [Online]
Available at: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/destinations.html [Accessed: 7 Nov 2013].
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Quora. 2013. What's the difference between MH Basic, MH Smart and MH Flex in Malaysian
Airlines?. [Online]
Available at: http://www.quora.com/Malaysia-Airlines/Whats-the-difference-between-MHBasic-MH-Smart-and-MH-Flex-in-Malaysian-Airlines [Accessed: 11 Nov 2013].
TechRepublic. 2013. The impact of E-ticketing in airlines and consumer attitude towards the
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Available at: http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/the-impact-of-e-ticketing-inairlines-and-consumer-attitude-towards-the-sam/ [Accessed: 11 Nov 2013].
Merriam-webster.com. 2013. Internet - Definition and More from the Free MerriamWebsterDictionary. [Online]
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