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Digital Connect Check-In 22.06 Release Notes

Release Identification

Release Version Type (Version, Update, or Patch) Date Approved by Description of Change
22.06 Version 22 Jun 2022

Piotr Gorski

 Software updated

Features

Digital Connect Check-In introduces new features and enhancements in the following areas:

  • U.S Contact Tracing
  • Improvement of Handling Checked Baggage after Recalculation
  • 24H Check-in Eligibility
  • Multiple Bag Charges Across Segments - Part 1
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The following sections explain more details about the new items.

 

U.S Contact Tracing

The new US government requirement requests all airlines with a flight arriving in the United States to collect and transmit to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) the following five data elements from all passengers: 

  1. DOCS -     Passenger name
  2. DOCA/D - Address while in the United States US and non-US citizens) 
  3. PCTC -     Primary phone number
  4. PTPH -     Secondary phone number
  5. PTEM -     Email address  

To comply with the new requirement, Digital Connect Check-In now supports collecting and transmitting additional two new data elements as edit codes, from all passengers (including INF):

  1. PTPH - Secondary phone number
  2. PTEM - Email address

Digital Connect Check-In was already supporting the following three data elements:

  1. DOCS - Passenger name
  2. DOCA/D - Address while in the United States US and non-US citizens) 
  3. PCTC - Primary phone number 

Prerequisites

None

Limitations

Only one PTEM and one PTPH element can be sent in a request. To add more than one PTEM and/or PTPH element multiple requests must be sent. This behavior is in line with the SSCI limitation. 

Configuration

Property Name Description Example
Value		 Data
Type

s4ci.feature.contactTracing.enabled

Aggregated configurations related to contact tracing mandate. Default is [false]

 True Boolean

 

Improvement of Handling Checked Baggage after Recalculation

Digital Connect Check-In has improved handling of checked-in baggage recalculation to support more cases. 
Digital Connect Check-In has implemented the following improvements:

  • Creating zero price AE when, after the recalculation, the state of the checked-in baggage changes from paid to free, as the baggage is within the baggage allowance limit. 
  • Updating baggage weight after recalculation, to ensure the bag tag is reflecting the correct weight.  
  • Adding warning and not linking unpaid AE to a bag tag when an airline does not allow to check-in unpaid baggage. Such a case is identified when the passenger does not have the  ALLOWED_BAG_TAG_ISSUANCE_PRIOR_TO_PAYMENT eligibility. 

Prerequisites

None

Limitations

None

Configuration

N/A

24H Check-in Eligibility

DCCI has extended the eligibility rules criteria, to enable the airlines to set up a rule that restricts the commencement of check-in not earlier than 24-hours prior to departure. 

  • Check-in eligibility rules criteria is extended :
    • Effective From - period before departure time, when this rule starts to apply. If this criterion is left empty, it will match all.
    • Effective To - period before departure time, when this rule ends to apply. If this criterion is left empty, it will match all.
    • Flight Range - this rule applies to a given flight number range
      • For example,
        • X0/100 - applies to a segment with the operating or marketing airline = X0 and flightNumber = 100 
        • X0/1-100 - applies to a segment with operating or marketing airline = X0 and flightNumber in range >= 1 and <= 100 
        • 1 - applies to a segment with operating or marketing airline = current context (storefront) airline and flightNumber = 1
        • 1-100 - applies to a segment with operating or marketing airline = current context (storefront) airline and flightNumber in range >= 1 and <= 100
    • International -  this rule applies to: 
      • true - International flights
      • false - Domestic flights
      • null - any of  the above  
  • Check-in windows criteria extended with the: 
    • Flight Range - definition applies to a given flight number range.

Prerequisites

None

Limitations

None

Configuration

N/A

Multiple Bag Charges Across Segments - Part 1

Until now, when the baggage calculation required an agent to create two or more Air Extra (AE) items associated to different segments, the AEs were not created properly.  
Digital Connect Check-In clients expect the AE items to be associated with the segments resulted from the calculation. To meet this expectation, DCCI has made the following changes: 

  • Integration with the new version of Calculate Bag Fees service in Digital Connect Check-In baggage pricing services.
    • These services are backward compatible after the integration. 
  • Enhancement of baggage pricing to present optional charges grouped per segments. 
    • Optional charges list on baggage charge level has been added to present which optional charge can be booked on which segments.
  • Enhancement of baggage booking to: 
    • book new optional charges 
    • book with a fee overriding 
    • book with a quantity overriding 
    • book with a structure text   
  • Adding optional charge id to the request; this helps to point accurately to the optional charges that are expected to be booked or to be booked with fee or quantity overriding or with structure texts. 
    • If optional charge id is not present in the request, then all the optional charges applicable for the charge is used while booking.
       

Prerequisites

None

Limitations

None

Configuration

Property Name Description Example
Value		 Data
Type

s4ci.feature.pricingConfiguration.optionalChargesPerSegmentsEnabled  

Specify whether the optionalCharges are available per segments or not. 
Default is [false] 

  True Boolean
s4ci.feature.baggage.book.linkAirExtrasPerSegments.enabled  Determines whether the AEs must be linked per segments or not.
Default is [false] 		 True Boolean