NDC Guide for Apollo and Worldspan

At this time NDC content from Apollo and Worldspan is available for American Airlines. Please contact your Travelport account manager for more information about provisioning and availability in your market.

This guide details how NDC content from Apollo and Worldspan is handled in the JSON APIs, including how it is identified in responses.

Related Content: JSON APIs Guide, NDC Guide, NDC FAQs

In this topic:

• Basic Concepts
• Source Values for Apollo and Worldspan Content
• Supported Carriers
  • American Airlines (AA)

Basic Concepts

Content for both NDC and GDS in the JSON APIs is sourced from the Galileo GDS (Global Distribution System) for most customers. Starting in April 2023, NDC content from the Apollo and Worldspan GDSs is available to specifically provisioned customers.

Most workflows, requests, and responses across the JSON APIs work the same for both GDS and NDC content, with minor differences noted in the help where applicable. The exception is that changes to the air itinerary, and voids, exchanges, and refunds, are handled by separate JSON APIs and follow different workflows. This results from differences in how NDC carriers implement these processes. The NDC menu at the top of every page groups these NDC-specific APIs. Otherwise, all Guides and API References apply to both NDC and GDS.

All NDC content, regardless of source (Travelport+/JSON, Apollo, or Worldspan), is handled the same in the JSON APIs. The only differences are:

• responses identify the source of content with a specific source locator code per the next section

• only specific carriers per below support Apollo and Worldspan NDC content

Source Values for Apollo and Worldspan Content

All workflows, requests, and responses are the same for all NDC content, with the one exception of the Locator source value returned for a booking. When a booking is confirmed, the booking commit response and all subsequent Reservation Retrieve responses return a confirmation with a Confirmation/Locator/source object that identifies the source GDS of the booking:

• 1G: Galileo/Travelport+ 

• 1P: Worldspan

• 1V: Apollo

For example, the following example confirmation excerpt comes from Apollo.

"Confirmation": {
  "@type": "ConfirmationHold",
  "Locator": {
    "source": "1V",
    "value": "V33QDW"
  }
}

See the Booking Guide and Reservation Retrieve Guide for more about booking confirmations and details in the JSON APIs.

Supported Carriers

American Airlines (AA)

At this time only American Airlines (AA) supports NDC content from Worldspan and Apollo in the JSON APIs.

Countries

AA NDC content is available in multiple countries. Apollo and Worldspan customers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico were bulk provisioned. This content is available in other countries using the current NDC provisioning channels.

Supported Functionality by GDS

The following table lists JSON functionality support in each GDS.