The Carrier Specific Display Availability accesses flight availability from the vendors’ system.
Transaction name:
AirAvailability_7
Can any other transaction perform this same task?
No other transactions can perform this task.
Can this task be performed in a sessionless environment?
This task can be performed in both a sessioned and a sessionless environment. However, if follow-on entries are required, then a sessioned environment is required.
Are the request and response identical on both the Apollo and Galileo systems?
The request and response are identical on both the Apollo and Galileo systems.
List any industry-specific knowledge required to understand this task in terms of the specific business process.
None.
Explain any special limits or distinct restrictions to the input data that may not be readily apparent.
Although 2 digits are allowed for the number requested, 48 is the maximum that will be returned.
Request:
Required data for the request includes the departure or arrival date, the board point and arrival point. To refine the information returned, a considerable amount of data may be included in the request.
Prerequisite tasks:
There are no prerequisite tasks.
Expected response:
Depending upon the information included in the request, various responses may be returned. These responses are described below.
Error and warning responses:
<AirVPrefs>, an optional air availability request tag, provides the ability to include or exclude air vendors via the array <AirVAry>. <AirVAry> may contain up to 24 <AirVInfo> items. Including more than 24 <AirVInfo> items results in a host error.
1 Unknown availability type
2 No. in party is not numeric
3 Class pref is not 'F', 'C', 'Y'
4 Date is not in YYYMMDD
5 Board is not alpha
6 Off is not alpha
7 Time is not numeric
8 Time modifier not 'A' or 'D'
9 Flight type is not 'N', 'D', 'C' or ' '
10 Airline include not 'I' or 'E'
11 Airline preference count not 0-6
12 Airline preferences not alphanumeric
13 Midpoint include not 'I' or 'E'
14 Midpoint preference count not 0-3
15 Midpoint preferences not alpha
16 Specific flight number not numeric
17 Specific connection indicator not 'Y' or 'N'
18 Bad more availability token
19 General system error
20 No more later flights
21 No displayable flights
22 No city-pair data exists
23 Carrier code not in OGI
24 No link availability for this carrier
25 Date outside system range
26 This carrier link is not operating
27 Check city-pair requested
28 No more earlier flights
29 Connections being built- retry later
30 Unable - refresh link availability
31 Specific flight not found
32 Unauthorized avail display mode
33 Specific legs are non-continuous
34 Nip for specific flight not met
35 Invalid class specified
36 Carrier preference not equal to 1
37 Flight departed
38 Flight cancelled
39 Flight boarding
40 Carrier not available
41 Invalid flight number
42 No direct service between cities
43 Flight not operating
44 Invalid search window start time
45 Invalid search window end time
46 Invalid max journey time
47 Error getting Travel Screen prefs
48 Midpoint/flight type conflict
49 Unsupported input version
50 Travel screen prefs relaxed
51 Travel screen prefs relaxed and no more later flights
52 Flight type modifier not 'E', 'U',' '
53 Relax carrier prefs not 'Y' or 'N'
54 KLR not minimum length
55 Apply business rules indicator not 'A' or ' ‘
56 Multi-airport city indicator not 'Y', 'N', or ' '
57 Travel screen indicator not 'Y', 'N', or ' '
58 Carrier pref must be included 'I' for carrier specific display, no 'E'
59 Can't relax carrier preference - CSD
60 Vendor translator error - APO links
61 Invalid frequency
62 Adequate solutions indicator not 'Y' or 'N'
63 Flight category indicator not 'Y' or 'N'
64 Multiple availability types present
65 AACP KLR was not followed by AAC1 KLR
66 Invalid flight suffix
67 Invalid requested number of flights
68 Invalid array item size
69 AAMP KLR was not followed by AAM1 KLR
70 Invalid midpoint routing indicator
71 Invalid similar classes indicator
72 Invalid sequencing modifier
73 Business rules apply must be set when connections present
74 Invalid sector number
75 Invalid flight number
76 Invalid flight range
77 Carrier is not a CSD participant
78 Multiple alliance codes not allowed
79 Invalid connection specified in flight specific availability request
80 Invalid number of legs specified on connection
81 Invalid max journey time
82 Class of service not offered
83 Market not operated by carrier
84 Maximum display lines reached
85 Invalid schedule level carrier indicator
86 At least one flight category must be selected
87 Travel restrictions exist at board point
88 Travel restrictions exist at off point
89 Travel restrictions exist at requested mid point
90 Travel restrictions exist for requested vendor
91 KLR exceeds maximum length
Follow-on requests:
Several follow-on entries may be possible after the initial CSD request:
|
<AirAvailMods> |
Terminal Equivalents: |
Apollo: L@AA/A10MAYDENORD L@AA/A/Z/10MAYDENORD |
Galileo: A10MAYDENORD*AA |
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Ordering |
KLR |
Min/Max |
XML Tag |
|
1 |
AACS |
1-99 |
<AirVSpecificAvail> |
|
2 |
AABP |
0-99 |
<BICPrefs> |
|
3 |
AACP |
1-99 |
<AirVPrefInd> |
|
4 |
AAC1 |
1-99 |
<AirVPrefs> |
|
<AirAvail> |
|
Ordering |
KLR |
Min/Max |
XML Tag |
|
1 |
AAMT |
0-99 |
<MoreToken> |
|
2 |
AAST |
0-99 |
<ReferenceSellToken> |
|
3 |
AAFH |
0-99 |
<AvailSummary> |
|
4 |
AAFI |
0-99 |
<AvailFlt> |
|
5 |
AABC |
0-99 |
<FltAvailStatus> |
|
6 |
AAB1 |
0-99 |
<BICAvail> |
|
7 |
AAFT |
0-99 |
<FltText> |