Sessionless and Session Tokens

This workflow demonstrates how to combine access (sessionless) and session tokens into a flight shop and book request.

Shopping

The following workflow demonstrates the steps once a client begins the shopping process.

1. Invoke the Create Access Token API to get a new access (sessionless) token (or use an existing access token).
2. Invoke the Bargain Finder Max API with multiple concurrent calls to allow shopping different clients.
3. Reuse the same access token until it expires. 

Booking

The following workflow demonstrates the steps once a client proceeds with the booking process.

1. Invoke the Create Session API to obtain a SOAP session token—if you have designed an in-house Connection Manager solution, invoke the connection manager and get a session from your Connection Manager, if you have not designed an in-house Connection Manager solution, create the session directly through the Create Session API.
2. Use the Orchestrated Air Booking API to book one or more flight segments.
3. Use the Passenger Details API to add all required information to create a passenger name record (PNR) and end the transaction.

Notes:

• We recommend you clean up your sessions once your booking workflow is completed. If you are using a Connection Manager, call your Connection Manager to return the session, which should have design logic for next steps. If you’re not using a Connection Manager, you may either let the session expire or close the session via the Close Session API.
• SOAP APIs: Steps 4 and 5 can be combined into one call—book one or more flight segments and add all required information to create a passenger name record (PNR) using CreatePassengerNameRecordRQ.
• Sessionless (access) tokens returned via REST and SOAP API authentication are the same type of token and can be used interchangeably between REST and SOAP.