Sessions: Booking Start

Booking Start begins a dedicated session for Universal API users.

Samples

See the samples associated with Session Booking Start:

Notes:

With all Booking Start requests, there are not many differences across associated GDS's.
See the Request section below to ensure all items are included in your request.

Schema

See the Booking Start transactions:

BookingStartReq
BookingStartRsp

Request

To begin a session, send the following:

TraceID
AuthorizedBy
TargetBranch
BillingPointOfSaleInfo/OriginApplication
ProviderCode

Response

The BookingStartResponse will return a Session Key used to identify the session. This session key will need to be sent in both the header and body in all subsequent sessioned requests. For example:

<sharedBooking:BookingStartRsp

TraceId="c7e2d212-0e77-458e-87e9-e4b361ffdd3d"

TransactionId="2B8EE3280A076478EA97796253C4A0FE"

ResponseTime="303"

SessionKey="5a264c07-4fbb-4132-90d1-5c7a08abdcad"

xmlns:sharedBooking="http://www.travelport.com/schema/sharedBooking_v39_0"/>

Exceptions

There are no known exceptions for the Booking Start request.