Release Notes

Below are release notes for major versions 25.11.x of the Travelport JSON Air APIs, covering releases on model 11 in 2025 and numbered starting 25.. Minor version updates (25.11.x.y) are listed only when they include customer-facing changes. See Archived Release Notes for previous versions from 24.11.x to 21.11.x.

See Schema Retirement for details on supported versions. Version numbering uses this format:
{year of release}.{model and thus major version of release}.{minor version of release}

In individual online help topics, support for new functionality is noted only for current and previous year releases (i.e., starting with 25. or 24.). Functionality deployed in previous releases (23.) is no longer specifically called out in topics.

Developer Toolkits

No 2025 developer toolkit releases to date. The most current version of the developer toolkits are available on Downloads & Tools.

General Functionality

No 2025 updates to date.

General NDC

Deployments of NDC functionality are generally included in one of the API-specific releases detailed below. More general NDC updates follow.

New Supported Carriers

The following NDC carriers are newly available through the JSON APIs in select countries, or deploying in additional countries, per the NDC by Country list:

  • No new carriers for 2025 to date.

Search

Search 25.11.50: Internal | 4 Feb 2025

Internal updates only.

Search 25.11.49: Override validating carrier | 8 Jan 2025

Adds the optional pricing modifier FareSelection/validatingCarrier to send a carrier code to override the default plating carrier. Supported in all search APIs and for split ticketing. GDS only; not supported for NDC.

Air Availability

No 25.11.x releases to date.

AirPrice

Price 25.11.45: Intermediate stop details | 12 Feb 2024

Updates the AirPrice response to return full details of any intermediate stop in the ReferenceListFlight/Flight/IntermediateStop object. Previously, AirPrice returned only the airport code of the intermediate stop.

Price 25.11.44: Terminal and equipment; age-applicable pricing for NDC | 16 Jan 2024

In the AirPrice reference and full payload responses, adds support for returning the terminal object in both Departure and Arrival when available. When terminal is returned, the @type value for Departure changes from Departure to DepartureDetail, and for Arrival changes from Arrival to ArrivalDetail.

Adds support for returning FlightSegment/equipment In the AirPrice full payload response; previously returned only in the reference payload response.

For the AirPrice reference payload, improves the logic handling for NDC pricing to account for age as well as PTC when age was sent in the preceding Search request, so that any age-specific pricing is applied. No code changes. Applicable only to NDC carrier AF.

AirPrice 25.11.43: Internal | 13 Jan 2025

Internal updates only.

Brand

No 25.11.x releases to date.

Seats and Ancillaries

Ancillaries 24.11.36: Cancel multiple bags, Standalone Seat Map for multiple cabin classes | 13 Feb 2024

Adds support for canceling multiple bags in a single post-commit workbench session. Previously, the workbench had to be committed and another workbench initiated before another ancillary cancel request for baggage could be sent. Canceling seats continues to require a separate workbench for each seat cancel request.

In the Standalone Seat Map request, adds support for requesting multiple cabins with the new SpecificFlightCriteria\additionalCabins object.

Ancillaries 25.11.35: Standalone Seat Map by cabin | 16 Jan 2024

In the Standalone Seat Map request, adds support for sending the optional object cabin to request seat availability by cabin class. GDS only; Standalone Seat Map not supported for NDC.

AirReservation and AirTicketing

AirReservation 25.11.54 & 55: Internal updates | 20 & 27 Feb 2025

Internal updates only.

AirReservation 24.11.53: Book split ticket offers, retrieve group booking | 13 Feb 2024

Adds support to the Reservation Retrieve API to retrieve a group booking, which are bookings with 10 or more passengers. The new object Reservation\Group is returned for group bookings.

Adds support for booking a split ticketing offer. This update allows the Add Offer reference payload and workbench commit to book a split ticketing offer, which are two separate one-way outbound and inbound offers identified in the Search response with the CombinabilityCode value j0. You must be provisioned for split ticketing to receive split ticket offers in Search results.

AirReservation 25.11.51: Check FOP, update and delete FOP requests | 16 Jan 2024

Adds a new payload to the Add Form of Payment request to support the Check form of payment. GDS only, not supported for NDC.

Adds the Delete Form of Payment and Update Form of Payment requests to support deleting and updating a form of payment. Supported in the initial booking workflow for both GDS and NDC, where these requests delete or update an FOP added in the same booking workbench. For an existing reservation, both requests are supported only for GDS.

Updates the Add Traveler request with a new wrapper object that supports adding multiple travelers to a booking with a single request. Previously, each traveler was required to be added in a separate request. The previous payload is still supported.

Exchange APIs

The Exchange APIs support only GDS, not NDC content. See the Exchange, Refund, and Void Guide for NDC options.

Refund capabilities for GDS are under development.

Eligibility

No 25.11.x releases to date.

Exchange Search

No 25.11.x releases to date.

Exchange Ticketing

Exchange Ticketing 25.11.29: Internal | 13 Feb 2025

Internal updates only.

Exchange Ticketing 25.11.28: Internal | 16 Jan 2025

Internal updates only.

Exchange Ticketing 25.11.27: Internal | 13 Jan 2025

Internal updates only.