By default, a Vehicle Search returns all available rates that meet the request search parameters. Availability can be requested by the Rate Category qualifier. Rate Category is the general category of the rate. Many of these rates are associated with a negotiated rate for a specific organization or event.
Request
In Galileo, Rate Categories map exactly to the Universal API enumerations. The RateCategory attributes of the VehicleSearchAvailabilityRequest/VehicleSearchModifiers/ includes the following values:
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With Vehicle v48.0 and greater, on Worldspan (1P), Travelport validates on the length of the rental for vendors that have supplied us with maximum rental days for prepay rates. For example one car vendor does not allow pre-pay for rentals exceeding 28 days. Rental car suppliers will receive less unnecessary traffic, which helps reduce performance items such as slower response times and timeouts:
- By Travelport limiting VehicleSearchAvailability “prepay” requests to only be sent to the vendor when the length of the rental does not exceed vendor specifications, such as if a rental request is 28 days or less, a significant amount of traffic is prevented from being sent to the vendor.
- Universal API customers, when sending a VehicleSearchAvailability request that includes rate category as prepay, it allows Travelport to validate the length of rental information being sent in the request, and if it is outside of what the vendor or supplier allows for pre-paid, an error returns to block unnecessary traffic that may be impacting supplier performance.
- If more than the set number of days, (for example, 28 days), the following error returns:
<faultstring>Prepay rates are not available for rental requests that exceed 28 days.</faultstring>
Exceptions
Worldspan supports a maximum of one Rate Category.
Response
A standard Vehicle Search response is returned in VehicleSearchAvailabilityRsp.
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