If a travel provider has an agreement with a specific airline, they may be permitted to book a PNR at a desired fare, well in advance of the actual ticketing date. In these cases, the airline allows the travel provider to wait until this date to purchase the ticket at the fare originally quoted by the travel provider. Therefore, there is a need for many customers to have the stored “Last Date to Purchase Ticket” in the fare record. Within Galileo, this date is also stored in the MIR for back-office use.
True Last Date to Ticket is the last available date that a fare can be ticketed, as indicated in the fare rules for a specific fare. This date is merely the last date to purchase a ticket based on the carrier’s fare rules at the time the itinerary was quoted and stored. The TrueLastDateToTicket attribute is returned in AirPricingInfo in the applicable service responses when available.
Note: Only Galileo supports TrueLastDateToTicket. No other providers support the attribute.
TrueLastDateToTicket is returned from Galileo with a date. Universal API attaches a time part of 23:59 and a branch time zone to the string. For example:
AirPricingInfo TrueLastDateToTicket=”2013-01-11T23:59:00.000+11:00”
True Last Date to Ticket is not associated to Latest Ticketing Time, which is the last date that the fare can be ticketed at the quoted price. After the Latest Ticketing Time, a quoted fare must be re-priced for ticketing if there is no agreement between the travel provider and airline to extend the quoted fare to the Last True Date to Ticket. It should also be noted that TAU/TAW dates put in the ticketing arrangement for a PNR do not relate directly to the last date to purchase because a PNR can be created without a stored fare.
In some cases, the True Last Date to Ticket will have the same date as the Latest Ticketing Time. However, for some ticketing locations, these two dates may differ. When the dates differ, Latest Ticketing Time is typically earlier than True Last Date to Ticket for a stored fare. However, for both of these dates, there is no guarantee that the fare will still be available on that date or that the fare amount will not change.
Note: Both AirPricingInfo @TrueLastDateToTicket and AirPricingInfo @LatestTicketingTime values can co-exist, most often for European ticketing locations.
True Last Date to Purchase Ticket functionality is supported in the following responses:
In Air
- Air Booking (AirCreateReservationRsp)
- Air Ticketing (AirTicketingRsp)
- Air Document Retrieve (AirRetrieveDocumentRsp)
- Air Cancel (AirCancelRsp)
- Air Merchandising Fulfillment (AirMerchandisingFulfillmentRsp)
- Universal Record Retrieve (UniversalRecordRetrieveRsp)
- Universal Record Modify (UniversalRecordModifyRsp)
- Universal Record Import (UniversalRecordImportRsp)
- Schedule Change Acknowledgement (AckScheduleChangeRsp)
The schema update to AirPricingInfo also impacts the following services, but TrueLastDateToTicket functionality is NOT implemented for these services:
- Air Booking (AirCreateReservationReq)
- Air Exchange (AirExchangeReq)
- Air Upsell Search (AirUpsellSearchReq)
- Universal Record Modify (UniversalRecordModifyReq)
- Base Air Price (BaseAirPriceRsp)
- Air Exchange Quote (AirExchangeQuoteRsp)
- Air Exchange Ticketing (AirExchangeTicketingRsp)
- Air Refund (AirRefundRsp)
- Air Search (AvailabilitySearchRsp)
- Air Void Document (AirVoidDocumentRsp)
- Saved Trip Retrieve (SavedTripRetrieveRsp)
- Air Reprice (AirRepriceReq and AirRepriceRsp)
- Create Saved Trip (SavedTripCreateReq and SavedTripCreateRsp)
- Modify Saved Trip (SavedTripModifyReq and SavedTripModifyRsp)
Exceptions
Only Galileo supports TrueLastDateToTicket. No other providers support this attribute.
