Standalone Seat Map API Reference

POST

search/seat/catalogofferingsancillaries/seatavailabilities

Base path:

Pre-production https://api.pp.travelport.net/11/air/

Production https://api.travelport.net/11/air/

Travelport has updated all JSON API authentication and authorization endpoints. Previous pre-production endpoints were deprecated 5 Dec 2025. Previous production endpoints are scheduled for deprecation 30 Jan 2026. API transactions using these endpoints after these dates in those environments will fail. See Endpoint Migration for details.

Related Content: Seats Guide, Seat Book API Reference

Standalone Seat Map sends flight criteria including a booking code to return a view-only seat map. Unlike the Seat Map request, Standalone Seat Map does not send any identifiers from a previously searched or priced flight. It is instead a full payload request and can be sent entirely on its own, either within or outside of a workbench session.

To subsequently select a seat, you must send a Seat Book request in a workbench session to add the selected seat/s to the workbench.

GDS only; not supported for NDC.

Request

As part of the request requirements, also see Authentication and Common Air Headers.

Query Parameters

None.

Request Body

Show Standalone Seat Map Request Body Table

Object	Description	Required/Optional
CatalogOfferingsQuerySeatAvailability	Top level object.	Required
SeatAvailabilityOfferings	Top level object. Send with @type value SeatAvailabilityOfferingsBuildFromProducts.	Required
ProductCriteriaAir	Top level object for itinerary details. Includes SpecificFlightCriteria.	Required
SpecificFlightCriteria	Array. Each instance sends details for one segment (aka flight) to return seats.	Required
carrier	String. IATA code of airline carrier for flight.	Required
flightNumber	String. Flight number assigned by airline.	Required
departureDate	String. Departure date of flight in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g., departureDate="2024-12-06")	Required
departureTime	String. Departure time of flight. HH:MM:SS (24-hour) format (e.g., departureTime="18:00").	Required
arrivalDate	String. Arrival date of flight in YYYY-MM-DD format.	Required
arrivalTime	String. Arrival time of flight in HH:MM:SS (24-hour) format.	Required
from	String. IATA airport code of departure.	Required
to	String. IATA airport code of arrival.	Required
cabin	String. Cabin class to return seats for. If neither cabin, classOfService, or additionalCabins are sent, by default the response returns Economy cabin and Y class of service.	Optional
classOfService	String. Class of service to return seats for.	Optional
segmentSequence	Sequence of this segment on the leg, starting with 0 for the first segment on the leg. A segment is one flight with the same flight number.	Required

Response

The Standalone Seat map response is the same as the reference payload seat map response, with the exception that Result/Warning/Message is returned with the message The seatMap is view only. See the Seat Map API Reference for response details.

Example Request

For additional examples, download the developer toolkits and see Using Postman and Developer Toolkits.

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{
 "CatalogOfferingsQuerySeatAvailability": {
  "SeatAvailabilityOfferings": {
   "@type": "SeatAvailabilityOfferingsBuildFromProducts",
   "ProductCriteriaAir": {
    "@type": "ProductCriteriaAir",
    "sequence": 1,
    "SpecificFlightCriteria": [
     {
      "@type": "SpecificFlightCriteria",
      "carrier": "QF",
      "flightNumber": "940",
      "departureDate": "2024-06-30",
      "departureTime": "17:35:00",
      "arrivalDate": "2024-06-30",
      "arrivalTime": "23:55:00",
      "from": "PER",
      "to": "BNE",
      "cabin": "Economy",
      "classOfService": "Q",
      "brandTier": 2,
      "segmentSequence": 1,
      "AvailabilitySourceCode": "Z",
      "ContentSource": "GDS",
      "boundFlightsInd": true
     }
    ]
   }
  }
 }
}

Example Response

The Standalone Seat map response is the same as the reference payload seat map response, with the exception that a Result/Warning/Message is returned with the message The seatMap is view only. See the Seat Map API Reference for an example response.