Glossary

Accounting code is the three digits that your airline’s ticket number starts with. They are unique for your airline and used for accounting purposes in the Clearing House when settling the accounts for flown/lifted coupons between airlines. Example: BA=125
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Annual General Meeting. ZMF members will meet at least once per year to get status of the projects, to vote on projects, budget, adjustments of the agreements, etc. and to meet other ARs and agree more concurrences. The Council or the members may call for an extra meeting during a year if necessary. This is called General Meeting.
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All Members have to pay an annual fee covering ZMF administration. The annual fee has to be paid in full even if you join at the end of a calendar year.
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Authorised Representative. It means your airline employee that your airline is authorising to be the contact person with other members and Member Service Centre (MSC).
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It means the Available Seat Kilometres that your airline offers to the community. The ASKs are used for calculating of your voting rights.
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ZED and MIBA Agreements describe the basic standards, rules, fares, etc., that all members have to apply. To get the ZED and/or MIBA agreements in effect for you, you have to contact other members, with whom you want to have an agreement according to these fares and rules. The agreements give you options that you have to negotiate with each member. This is done on the Concurrence Form (and on its Annexes if relevant) that you and the other member must sign when agreed. This will be the ZED or MIBA concurrence between you and that member airline.
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Computerised Reservation System

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Global Distribution System
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Multilateral Interline Business travel Agreement for airline company business travel. The option of fixed and discounted fares, standards, rules and conditions described in the Agreement and its Appendices form the base for members’ bilateral negotiations for exchange of discounted duty tickets and signing of the Concurrence Form and its Annexes.
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Member Service Centre. A real person, your ZED-MIBA Forum administrator, reachable at .
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Neighbourhood travel agreements cover routes operated in the same geographical area. Usually, it covers routes operated in parallel by two airlines, but it can also cover all routes operated between the home countries of the airlines involved.
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S/A/F means Subsidiary, Affiliate or Franchise companies that members want to include in their concurrencies. The criteria are reflected in an Appendix to ZED-MIBA Forum Agreement, and have to be noted on the signed concurrence form. If included S/A/Fs are a scheduled passengerairline, the Member must report these on “My account” on the website.
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This document, signed both by an officer of your airline and ZMF, will be the formal and legal document for membership and participation in the ZED and/or MIBA agreements. You will keep one original and the other will be kept in file by ZED-MIBA Forum. You must sign the ZMF part and ZED and/or MIBA part.
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Taxes/Fees/Charges. Any tax, fee or charge imposed by an airline (i.e. charges that are not remitted to third party government/airport authorities) must not be collected and shown on the ticket, and must not be collected from the ZED passenger by the transporting airline at time of check in, unless bilaterally agreed specifically for ID tickets.
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Zonal Employee Discount agreement for airline employees’ personal discounted travel. The fixed fares, standards, rules, conditions and options described in the Agreement and its Appendices form the base for members’ bilateral negotiations for exchange of employee discounted travel and signing of the Concurrence Form and its Annexes.
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ZED MIBA Advisory Council, or just the Council, consists of 8 members’ ARs appointed for two years. To become a Council member, a ZMF ZMAC pro-forma must be filled in and signed by a superior officer of the AR’s airline that will guarantee support for two years for the AR to work for ZMF.
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ZED MIBA Forum is the umbrella organisation of which you are a member, or to which you apply for membership.
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ZED MIBA Forum Special Project Funds. Through the years ZMF has been collecting fees from members for projects and other items of which not all funds have been used. These funds, as well as all future Applicants’ Fees, will be held in a special bank account for future projects as decided by the members by voting. One ongoing project paid from SPF is the website zedmiba.org.
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The concept of ZED and MIBA is to charge fixed fares based on distance zones reflecting Ticketed Point Miles (TPM). See ZED and MIBA Guidelines.
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