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Term

Definition

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API

Application programming interface.

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S7 Agent API

program interface supports different requests to the airline reservation system, the fare system of transportation, and to the system of electronic ticketing for the sale of tickets and related services in the forms of S7 airlines.

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Stateless API

format of the service, where each service method can be invoked independently of the other.

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CRS

Computer Reservation System.

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NDC

New Distribution Capability. IATA new standard for data exchange between participants of the tourism industry in terms of sales of air transportation.

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OTA

  • Online Travel Agency.

  • (OpenTravel Alliance) - a non-profit organisation which develops open data transmission specifications for the electronic exchange of business information for the travel industry, including but not limited to the use of XML.  Members of the OpenTravel Alliance include airlines, hotel companies, car rental companies, cruise lines, railways, global distribution systems, distribution companies, solutions providers, software developers and consultants.OpenTravel's schema design supports W3C, IATA and ISO standards.

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ESB

Enterprise Service Bus.

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ITA QPX Connect

Second generation of an airline pricing & shopping engine that produces fully-priced valid itineraries.

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ITA BBX

Boombox. First generation of a hosted service for airline pricing and shopping that provides a simple a custom API and configurable business logic. The custom API mirrors the UI for your shopping system and handles pricing, business logic, session management, and search result summaries.

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XML

Extendable mark-up language. The data format of  all inter-component messaging in our environment.

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T&C

Terms and Conditions. Normally refers to cancellation and change charges as set by inventory supplier, but also may cover other terms such as conditions of carriage, guest rules, etc.

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IBE

Internet Booking Engine. Online sales and self-service channel.


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Flight


Term

Definition

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Trip

An ordered shopper-specified set of cities (airports) through which the scheduled flight of a passenger sequentially occurs until the moment of arrival at its destination and in each of which a landing takes place.
Contains one or more slices. Slice contains one or more flights. And flight contains one or more legs.
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e.g. UA949(MSQ→MSK→OVB) → UA353(OVB→KHV) → 10 days → UA404(KHV→MSK) → UA121(MSK→MSQ)

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One-way trip

Contains one slice covering the travel from origin to destination.

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Round trip

Contains two slices, with the first slice covering travel from origin to destination and the second slice covering travel from destination back to origin.

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Circle trip

Contains three or more slices that travel in a circle where the origin for the first slice is the same as the destination for the last slice.

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Multi-City Trip

Contains three or more slices covering the travel from origin to destination.

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Transfer trip

A slice which contains two or more segments where a passengers have to change board (with flight number changing).

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Slice

Consists of a shopper-specified origin and destination. Slice information describing the travel between an airport/city where travel commences and an airport/city where travel ultimately terminates. A slice may be comprised of one or more segments. e.g. UA949(MSQ→MSK→OVB)→UA353(OVB→KHV)

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Slice itinerary, Journey

ITA: Contains one or more segments covering a single slice. e.g. MSQ→OVB→KHV→MSK→MSQ

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OriginDestination

The starting and ending points for the transportation of passengers, cargo and mail on completed flights.

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Route

A set of cities (airports) through which consistently passes the scheduled flight and in each of which a planned landing takes place. e.g. MSK→MSQ

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Flight

A set of legs of the segment, for which the time of departure is fixed and which are united by one flight number. The flight can be as regular, as irregular

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Direct flight

Flight is a segment that consists of a single leg.

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Transit flight, Multi Leg Flight

A flight comprised of more than one leg (stops without changing board and flight number)

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Segment, Flight slice

Consists of one or more consecutive legs having the same flight number. Based on a shopper-specified origin and destination and included in slice.

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Leg

Consists of a single take-off and landing of an aircraft.

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Stopover

Stopping between two segments over 24 hours.


Entities


Term

Definition

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Flight Solution

Provides a complete solution to the query posed by the user, including itinerary information and (optionally) pricing and booking details.

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Offer ID, Solution ID

The Offer ID facilitates the tracking and verification of individually priced offer(s) selected from the shopping response. The Offer ID is unique to each individually priced offer in the shopping response even if the offer price is zero. The Offer ID may be specific to individual passengers in the offer, and may be associated with a segment or a journey.

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FFP, FQTV

Frequent flight traveler.

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PNR

Passenger Name Record, the entry in the CRS database, which contains route, passenger data etc.

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SSR

Special service request, normally sent to airline in the Res/GDS PNR, e.g. meal preferences

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PCC

Pseudo city code, in the aviation industry is an alpha-numeric identifier for a travel agency using a computer reservation system (CRS) or global distribution system (GDS). The codes are typically 3-5 characters long and are unique to a specific office of a travel agency. They are used to associate each agency's bookings with the agency, and also to identify private fares available to the agency.

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ETK

Electronic Ticket

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EMD

Electronic Miscellaneous Document

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Cabin

A compartment where passenger seats are installed

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Order, Super PNR

An Order is a uniquely identified record of the agreement of one party with another to receive products and services under specified terms and conditions. ‘Order’ supports the sale of a flexible range of airline products and services that are not necessarily journey based (e.g. subscription services). A ‘PNR’, ‘super PNR’ and ‘ticket’ are all today’s versions of airline implementations of aspects of an Order. An Order will contain 1 or more Order Items each with an identifier that is unique within an Airline’s Order Management system. An Order may support non-homogeneity, i.e. each passenger in an Order may hold different sets of order items at different prices.

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Service Item

An airline service item is a product or a service that can be separately delivered and uniquely described by an airline.

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Shopping Response ID

The Shopping Response ID facilitates the tracking of what was offered and is an identifier unique to the source airline for a set of product offers returned in response to a shopping request. The Shopping Response ID may be comprised of an Offer ID corresponding to an individual flight and/or ancillary service product offer that make up the offer.

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Ticketing

The process of issuing any type of an accountable document (ETK or EMD) to fulfil an airline order.

Ancillaries

Term

Definition

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Baggage allowance concept

All carries, that can appear in the API results, applies one of the baggage allowance concepts:

  • piece concept — carrier limits baggage allowance by size, bag piece quantity and weight

  • weight concept — carrier limits baggage allowance by size and weight only (it doesn’t matter how many bags will be)

If pieces doesn’t exist for:

  • hand luggage description — it means that operation carrier of a particular segment provides weight concept for hand luggage allowance

  • checked baggage description —  it means that higher-priority operation carrier of a particular slice provides weight concept for checked baggage allowance

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