Point Of Sale (POS) in NDC

What is POS?

The country at which retail transaction is carried out. In NDC , POS is denoted by a two letter country code. The corresponding currency for each POS details will be mapped in iFlyRes according to the airline requirements. The payment currency depends on the POS used in the NDC API Requests.

Example:

Consider DE (Germany) POS is mapped to EUR currency in iFlyRes based on airline requirement.

For customers using DE POS can perform the payment transaction in EUR.

Consider DE (Germany) POS is mapped to USD currency in iFlyRes based on airline requirement.

For customers using DE POS can perform the payment transaction in USD.

Where do we give the POS in NDC Requests?

Point Of Sale (POS) should be passed in the following tags,

For every NDC 17.2 RQ, POS should be passed in PointOfSale/Location/CountryCode

<ns:PointOfSale>
    <ns:Location>
        <ns:CountryCode>DE</ns:CountryCode>
    </ns:Location>
</ns:PointOfSale>

For every NDC 19.2 RQ, POS should be passed in POS/Country/CountryCode

<iata:POS>
    <iata:Country>
        <iata:CountryCode>DE</iata:CountryCode>
    </iata:Country>
</iata:POS>

For getting the POS details in advance, the consumer would need to contact the airline.