XML Samples: Air

Samples include:

Shop, price, book (minimum transactions to book air)
More shopping and availability options
Flight and fare information (seat map, flight details, fare display, air fare rules, flight information, time table)
Post-booking options (ticketing, modify, cancel, import, retrieve, history, search)

Both the request and response XML are included in the text file link.

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Minimum shop, price, book

Shop for flights, price flights, and book the priced flights. A Universal Record is returned in the booking response.

Request	Description	Sample
Low Fare Shop (LFS)	Low Fare Shop returns Air Price Points (default), which provides a price with a set of flight options for each leg of the journey.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Price	A price request is: Required to obtain fare information for an Air Itinerary selected for an Air Availability. Strongly recommended, and in some cases required (for ACH), to confirm up-to-date fare data from a Low Fare Shopping response.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Book	Returns a Universal Record (UR) with the air reservation (PNR) and traveler information. Important: The fare in the booking is not guaranteed until the fare is ticketed.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan

Request

Description

Sample

Low Fare Shop (LFS)

Low Fare Shop returns Air Price Points (default), which provides a price with a set of flight options for each leg of the journey.

Galileo Apollo Worldspan

Price

A price request is:

Required to obtain fare information for an Air Itinerary selected for an Air Availability.
Strongly recommended, and in some cases required (for ACH), to confirm up-to-date fare data from a Low Fare Shopping response.

Galileo Apollo Worldspan

Book

Returns a Universal Record (UR) with the air reservation (PNR) and traveler information.

Important: The fare in the booking is not guaranteed until the fare is ticketed.

Galileo Apollo Worldspan

Air availability and Low Fare Shop requests are used to search for flights.

Request	Description	Sample
Low Fare Shop for Pricing Solution	Returns Pricing Solutions, which provides a complete itinerary and price.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Low Fare Shop Asynch	In the asynchronous call, responses from providers are returned as they become available, instead of waiting until all provider data is obtained to return the entire response.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Low Fare Shop One Way	Returns flights on three different dates between three different city pairs.	Galileo Not available for Apollo Not available for Worldspan
Flex Shopping	Uses flexible shopping dates to return flights two days before and after the given date.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Air Availability Round Trip	Returns scheduled flights between cities on the dates requested and indicates if seats are available. This request does not include pricing; send a follow-on Air Pricing request.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan

Request	Description	Sample
Flight Information	Returns the real-time status of a flight and the scheduled flight information.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Flight Details	Returns scheduled flight information, including travel time, meals, and other information.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Time Table	Provides the ability to identify flight schedules by the day of the week. Request a specific flight or a general timetable.	Galileo Apollo Not currently supported for Worldspan
Seat Map	Returns paid and standard (free) seats available for a given flight, as well as their location within the aircraft.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Fare Display	Returns all fares for the requested parameters, regardless of availability. Often followed by a Fare Rules request to determine the requirements and/or penalties associated with a specific tariff fare.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Fare Rules	Sends the AirFareDisplayRuleKey returned in the AirFareDisplayRsp and returns the requirements or penalties associated with the fare quote.	Galileo Apollo Not available for Worldspan
Add an associated remark for Air, Hotel, Vehicle	Add an associated remark for an air, hotel, and vehicle booking.	Galileo ApolloWorldspan

Function	Description	Sample
Ticketing	Issues a ticket for the air booking. Ticketing can also include support documents, invoicing, handing off data, and MCOs.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Retrieve air document	Retrieve the air document, which includes ticketing information.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Retrieve Universal Record	Retrieves a Universal Record with an air booking.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Retrieve Universal Record by Provider Locator Code	Retrieve a Universal Record by the provider locator code.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Search	When the Universal Record isn't known, search for it using data from a PNR within the Universal Record.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Add air reservation	Adds an air reservation to an existing Universal Record.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Retrieve after modify	Retrieves the Universal Record that was modified above by adding an air reservation.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Import	Create a Universal Record from a PNR that was created outside of Universal API.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
History	Returns the history of actions taken on the Universal Record.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Cancel an air segment	Cancels one air segment in the Universal Record. All other segments remain.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Retrieve after cancel	Retrieves the Universal Record that was modified above when an air reservation was canceled.	Galileo Apollo Worldspan
Cancel entire Universal Record	Cancels all segments in a Universal Record.	Galileo Apollo Not available for Worldspan