Release Identification

Release Version	Type (Version, Update, or Patch)	Date	Approved by	Description of Change
22.05	Version	May 2022	Sebastian Santos	Software updated

Enhancements

Digital Connect introduces the following enhancements:

• Returning Installment Details in API Response - DC Core / DCMC
• Ticketed and Ticketless Infant Flight Reservations - DC Core
• Stateless Context Shop - DCMC
• Shopping Performance Enhancement - DCMC
• Insurance - Mandatory Phone Number Field - DCMC

 

Enhancements

Returning Installment Details in API Response

Digital Connect introduces an enhancement to the way the installment details are returned. Before its introduction, installment details were mapped from a historical remark in EMD-s. The change includes adding additional parameters, reading the details from the historical remarks, and populating the details in API response to be able to expose the amount details in the installments section. This enhancement applies to the /pnr and /purchase services in the following flows:

• B2C
• MYB MTO
• MYB BNPL
• Exchange
• MYB CI

Examples

"installments": [
          {
            "numberOfInstallments": 12,
            "totalPaymentAmount ": {
              "amount": 14137.27,
              "currency": "ARS"
            },
            "interestAmount": {
              "amount": 4137.27,
              "currency": "ARS"
            },
            "interestRate": 75.34
          }
        ]

Prerequisites

• Airlines need to have an installment setting/program set up.

Limitations

• Any change to the installment remark will result in the installment details not showing in the /pnr response.
• Digital Connect is not able to determine which installment plan was chosen.

Ticketed and Ticketless Infant Flight Reservations

Digital Connect introduces an enhancement that enables supporting domestic US flight reservations for infants with and without issuing a ticket. This allows the hosted airlines to configure if the infant should or should not be ticketed to ensure a complete end to end flow and resolves an exception that is occurring while creating an Exchange QueryProducts request for infants without a ticket. The enhancement applies to the Shop and Book as well as the Post-booking flows.

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

None.

Stateless Context Shop

Digital Connect introduces an enhancement that improves airlines' efficiency when working with round trip, multi-city itineraries and unbundled offers. A new "selectedOffers" element is added to the /products/air/search API to reduce the number of stateless calls needed for flight selection. The new element includes all the flight details that are later exposed to the QueryProducts request. The enhancement applies to the following flows/APIs:

• B2C - products/air/search
• RBE - products/air/search

Example

"selectedOffers": [
          {
            "airlineCode": "XX",
            "departureCode": "SCL",
            "arrivalCode": "LIM",
            "operatingAirlineCode": "XX",
            "flightNumber": "2478",
            "operatingFlightNumber": "2478",
            "departureTime": "2022-05-05T07:42:00",
            "arrivalTime"': "2022-05-05T10:30:00",
            "bookingClass": "G",
            "brandId": "QP",
          },
]

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

• The carrier must be configured as a context shop user
• This enhancement does not apply to one way itineraries
• This enhancement does not apply to Price Jump (Promo Offers)
• This enhancement does not apply to the following search types:
  • Flexible calendar
  • Calendar30
  • Lowest fare
  • Matrix
• The previously selected price and booking class will not be shown when using selectedOffers

Shopping Performance Enhancement

This performance enhancement enables sending a list of brands in the "additionalParameter" section of the /products/air/search request payload. The list of brands is then mapped from the response to the Queryproducts request. This applies to the following workflows and search types:

Flows:

• B2C
• RBE

Search types:

• Branded
• Calendar30
• Lowest fare
• Matrix
• Flexible calendar

Examples

"additionalParameters": {
   "brandIdList": ["LT","FL"]
}

{
    "cabinClass": "Economy",
    "awardBooking": false,
    "additionalParameters": {
        "brandIdList": ["LT","FL"]
    },
    "searchType": "BRANDED",
    "itineraryParts": [
        {
            "from": {
                "code": "ABC",
                "useNearbyLocations": false
            },
            "to": {
                "code": "CBA",
                "useNearbyLocations": false
            },
            "when": {
                "date": "2022-04-01"
            }
        }
    ],
    "passengers": {
        "ADT": 1
    }
}

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

• The feature requires brand search to be enabled.
• DC air search request should have list of brands provided.

Insurance - Mandatory Phone Number Field

Digital Connect sends the passenger's phone number in the "homePhone" field of MTS_TravelExtrasRes request. Before the introduction of this enhancement, providing the phone number was mandatory on the airline UI, but the homePhone field has been optional as part of the XML attribute. This enhancement applies to the B2C/Revenue flows.

Prerequisites

None.

Limitations

None.