Release Identification

Enhancements

Digital Connect introduces the following enhancements:

• Travel Bank Refunds - Security Checks
• Seating Data and Air Extras retained upon upgrade.
• Verifying VCR status for upgrade flow
• Upgrade Flow - revert points in Flat Fee Upgrade
• Price breakdown per passenger in shop response
• Air Search Response enhancement - Endorsable Indicator and Meal Code
• DC Metasearch enhancement - optional Fare Basis Code

Defect fixes

Digital Connect introduces the following defect fixes as part of this release:

• Incorrect Departure Date in Stopover Flights
• Commercial Seat Name Incorrectly Displayed on EMD
• Restrictive Email Length Validation
• PNRs not Placed on Queue When Adding SSRs
• Redemption Booking SIgned-in User Details Issue
• Session Id Missing in PnrDisplay Response Headers
• Agent Sales Report Dashboard Activation Issue
• Ancillary Error for Second Bag Fee

Enhancements

Travel Bank Refund - Security Checks

The Travel Bank refund functionality is enhanced with regards to the security checks preventing unauthorized users from receiving refunds to their Travel Bank accounts. The security checks are extended to the Modify Trip Options (MYB:MTO) and Change Itinerary (MYB:CI) flows. The enhancement does not involve any changes to the configuration keys.

Prerequisites

• Airline must have Travel Bank enabled.

Limitations

None.

Seating Data and Air Extras retained upon upgrade

This enhancement ensures that when a passenger upgrades one or more of their segments (but not all segments) and makes a new seat selection in the new cabin, all his original seats for non-upgraded segments are retained including the Air Extras data. The passenger can view the originally paid seat as well as the newly selected upgrade upon completion of the upgrade flow on the MYB summary page.

This enhancement applies to the Upgrade flows:

• FFU
• FQTU

There are no contract changes for this enhancement.

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

None.

Verifying VCR status for upgrade flow

Digital Connect introduces an enhancement that verifies the VCR status to apply necessary servicing options to the correct VCR. Multiple VCRs with different statuses can be a part of a PNR. This allows PNRs that contain valid tickets alongside voided and/or refunded tickets to enter the upgrade/MTO flow and successfully upgrade flight segments and associate the EMD to the correct VCR. In case of a ticketing failure, an error message is displayed on the Confirmation page.

The Upgrade/MTO EMD may be associated to VCRs with the statuses:

• OK
• CKIN

The Upgrade/MTO EMD’s may not be associated to VCRs/Segments in the following statues:

• VOID - Void
• RFND - Refunded
• EXCH - Exchanged
• USED - Used
• LFTD - Lifted
• CTRL - Control

Prerequisites

• The airline has FQTU/FFU and/or MTO enabled.

Upgrade Flow - revert points in Flat Fee Upgrade

Digital Connect enhances the upgrade flow with the ability for the application to revert the user’s points back to their  Loyalty account in cases when the upgrade transaction is unsuccessful. This ensures that points are not deducted from the user's account unless the upgrade transaction is successful and the user has a confirmed space in the upgraded cabin.

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

• Does not apply to the FQTU flow

Price breakdown per passenger in shop response

The aim of this new functionality is to expose a price breakdown per passenger from the API response. The configuration "sat.flights.pricePaxesCalculation.type": can be sent to “ALL_PAX” or “ONE_PAX” to present the price breakdown per passenger type or for the individual passengers.

•    If the configuration is set to: "ALL_PAX", the total fare amount for all passengers per passenger type is displayed.

•    If the configuration is set to: "ONE_PAX", the total fare amount per passenger under one passenger type is displayed.

This allows for the price breakdown to be used by Digital Connect directly without the need to match DC data with Sabre Web Services' response.

The enhancement applies to all types of calendar searches currently supported in DC (Calendar30, Matrix, 7-day ribbon, and Flexible Calendar), branded fares, and the RBE path.

Prerequisites

• For Calendar30
  • Calendar shopping must be enabled.
• For Calendar Matrix
  • Airlines must have RT (return) display and Matrix format configured (Matrix is available for RT trips only).
  • Airlines must have Advanced Shopping enabled (Matrix is available for advanced shopping only).

Limitations

None.

Air Search Response enhancement - Endorsable Indicator and Meal Code

Digital Connect introduces an enhancement to the Air Search service that includes additional fields in the service response. The information includes an endorsable ticket indicator and meal code for the specific flight segment sold.

The endorsement indicator is returned as one of two subfields of the Air Info field - a non-refundable indicator and a non-endorsable indicator.

Meal codes are displayed per flight leg:

"origin": "BNE",
"destination": "MEL",
"departure": "2022-02-18T16:00:00",
"arrival": "2022-02-18T18:30:00",
"bookingClass": "M",
"layoverDuration": 0,
"fareBasis": "IZLT0A14",
"subjectToGovernmentApproval": false,
"meals": [
   {
      "passengerType": "ADT",
      "mealCode": "G"
   },
   {
      "passengerType": "CHD",
      "mealCode": "G"
   },
   {
      "passengerType": "INF",
      "mealCode": "G"
   }

The enhancement applies to:

• RBE Flow
• B2C Flow
• Matrix Search
• Calendar 30
• Branded Search

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

• The enhancement is not applicable to unbundled offers.

DC Metasearch enhancement - optional Fare Basis Code

Digital Connect metasearch was enhanced by passing the fare basis code as optional. This allows the airlines that retrieve the fare basis from other sources to bypass a DC validation that throws an error in case of fare basis code mismatch. By making the fare basis code optional, the validation is relaxed to allow the flow to continue without getting an error response.

An additional parameter (skipFareBasisCheck, boolean) has been added to the metasearch request.

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

None.

Defects

Incorrect Departure Date in Stopover Flights

Commercial Seat Name Incorrectly Displayed on EMD

Restrictive Email Length Validation

PNRs not Placed on Queue When Adding SSRs

Redemption Booking SIgned-in User Details Issue

Session Id Missing in PnrDisplay Response Headers

Agent Sales Report Dashboard Activation Issue

Ancillary Error for Second Bag Fee

"ancillaryOperation[0].selectedPassengers[0].index": [
"invalid|passenger not eligible"
]