SeatAvailabilityRQ - ShortSell

User Guidance - Service Input Parameters

Input Parameters

Type

Optional/Mandatory

Request Object

SeatAvailabilityRQ

M

<SeatAvailabilityRQ>

XML Example for the following elements

<SeatAvailabilityRQ Version="17.2" xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/EDIST">

Elements

Details

Mandatory/Optional

Specify NDC schema message version. Always pass 17.2
Note: This is a mandatory attribute in NDC schema. The service will not validate what is being passed in this attribute

M

XML Example for the following elements

<Document>
        <Name>NDC</Name>
        <ReferenceVersion>17.2</ReferenceVersion>
</Document>

Elements

Details

Mandatory/Optional

NDC Message Document information

M

Document name will be always NDC

O

Will be NDC version

O

XML Example for the following elements

<ns:PointOfSale>
    <ns:Location>
        <ns:CountryCode>IT</ns:CountryCode>
        <ns:CityCode>ROM</ns:CityCode>
    </ns:Location>
    <ns:RequestTime Zone = "CET">2019-01-28T07:01:00</ns:RequestTime>
</ns:PointOfSale>

Details

Mandatory/Optional

Point of sale location information.

Country Code

M

Airport or City Code

M

Point Of Sale Timestamp value

Example: 2017-01-13T13:59:38Z

M

Point of Sale timezone

Example : UTC, CET

M

<Party>

XML Example for the following elements

Normal bookings/B2C bookings

<ns:Party>
    <ns:Sender>
        <ns:AgentUserSender>
            <ns:Name>Guest Website</ns:Name>
            <ns:AgentUserID>CHANNEL CODE</ns:AgentUserID>
        </ns:AgentUserSender>
    </ns:Sender>
    <ns:Recipient>
        <ns:ORA_Recipient>
            <ns:AirlineID>V1</ns:AirlineID>
            <ns:Name>Airline Name</ns:Name>
        </ns:ORA_Recipient>
    </ns:Recipient>
</ns:Party>

B2B login/travel agent login

<edis:Party>
    <edis:Sender>
        <edis:AgentUserSender>
            <edis:OtherIDs>
                <edis:OtherID Description = "Booking Channel ID">Channel Code given by IBS</edis:OtherID>
            </edis:OtherIDs>
            <edis:AgentUserID Owner = "Agency code">Agent id</edis:AgentUserID>
        </edis:AgentUserSender>
    </edis:Sender>
    <edis:Recipient>
        <edis:ORA_Recipient>
            <edis:AirlineID>Airline code</edis:AirlineID>
            <edis:Name>Airline name</edis:Name>
        </edis:ORA_Recipient>
    </edis:Recipient>
</edis:Party>

Elements

Details

Mandatory/Optional

<Party>

Party & Sender Definition

M

<Sender>

Message Sender information.

M

<AgentUserSender>

Agent User Sender Details

M

<Name>

Agency Seller Name

M

<AgentUserID>

User ID of the Agent

M

<OtherIDs>

Additional Agency (Seller) identification

O

<OtherID>

Other Identifier

M

Description (Attribute)

Other identification description.

M

<Recipient>

Named Message Recipient.

M

<ORA_Recipient>

SUPPLIER: ORA (Offer Originating Airline)

Recipient.

M

<AirlineID>

Airline ID

M

<Name>

Airline Name

M

Owner (Attribute)

Agency Code in Case of B2B

M

XML Example for Query Object

SeatAvailability request for selected flights in the Selected Offer

<ns:Query>
      <ns:Offer OfferID="OF1-eJx9zkEKwjAUBNATWfKn-cnPMtYWXNhijWBWc-9bmCBSdeEsB.Yx4kUQJQ7inTCVPG.JojGYKVwLH1di8EznJXO6b5zGdVkvhT2CRuMtsy4YtOtxkA8uslrpdGycBYXtnAAs4yy-niE0rxDsTTv35RkrVh..PKvNfs-5f17CG6R7AvtjPfI_" Owner="V1" ResponseID="tx-08-201-f7e19798-c640-48e4">
       	  <ns:SegmentID>V1_SEG.1</ns:SegmentID>
          <ns:SegmentID>V1_SEG.2</ns:SegmentID>
      </ns:Offer>
</ns:Query>

SeatAvailability request for all flights in the Selected Offer

<ns:Query>
      <ns:Offer OfferID="OF1-eJx9zkEKwjAUBNATWfKn-cnPMtYWXNhijWBWc-9bmCBSdeEsB.Yx4kUQJQ7inTCVPG.JojGYKVwLH1di8EznJXO6b5zGdVkvhT2CRuMtsy4YtOtxkA8uslrpdGycBYXtnAAs4yy-niE0rxDsTTv35RkrVh..PKvNfs-5f17CG6R7AvtjPfI_" Owner="V1" ResponseID="tx-08-201-f7e19798-c640-48e4">
      </ns:Offer>
</ns:Query>

Elements

Details

Mandatory/Optional

<Query>

Core Query for SeatAvailabilty

M

<Offer>

To get a Seat Info using shortsell, the client should use this tag to provide details.

M

OfferID (Attribute)

This is the OfferID returned in AirShoppingRS for the Selected offer the customer wishes to book the flight

M

ResponseID (Attribute)

This is the ResponseID returned in AirShoppingRS

M

Owner (Attribute)

Should be always set to Airline Code

M

<SegmentID>

Reference to the segment for which seat maps are required.
The segmentID can be obtained from the previous service.
The absence of this element is equivalent to an all-segments request.
Requested flight segment needs to be part of the OfferId.

O

Elements

Details

Mandatory/Optional

<PassengerList>

List of all passengers with Passenger type code (PTC)

M