Release notes by month

Enhanced Air Ticket 1.3.0 on April 28, 2022

Method/Endpoint: /v1.3.0/air/ticket

Added capability to pass cost center information at .Ticketing.FOP_Qualifiers.BasicFOP.CostCenter
Added capability too indicate manual OB fee that should be associated to the payment card at .Ticketing.FOP_Qualifiers.BasicFOP.CC_Info.PaymentCard.ManualOBFee
Added capability to reference a form of payment from a PNR FOP field for multiple form of payment ticketing transactions at .Ticketing.FOP_Qualifiers.BSP_Ticketing.MultipleFOP.Reference
Added capability to associate baggage allowance per specific flight segment at .Ticketing.MiscQualifiers.BaggageAllowance.SegmentSelect
Added capability to claim commission on the Net Fare during ticketing transaction at .Ticketing.MiscQualifiers.Commission.Net
Added capability to specify an 8 digit discount approval code at .Ticketing.MiscQualifiers.Discount.Code
Added capability to issue paperless service fee using the service fee amount stored in the TJR settings for the agency at .Ticketing.MiscQualifiers.MISF
Added capability to pass discount amount, selling fare amount and tour code for Net Remit ticketing transactions at .Ticketing.MiscQualifiers.NetRemit
(11/17/2022) [Part 1] Added 'PostProcessing.CreditVerificationInterval' which will let you extend the current delay interval for ticketing price quotes when the system encounters "CREDIT VERIFICATION IN PROGRESS" message. This happens when Sabre system waits for a response from the credit card company.
(11/17/2022) [Part 2] You will have a choice to extend the wait time from 3000 to 10000 ms. Please remember that the API counts the number of price quotes within a single 'Ticketing' element, so if there's two price quotes a delay of 5000 ms this will effectively mean waiting 10000ms.
(12/07/2022) Resolved an intermittent issue where the API could not undesignate printers due to a gateway error "SC SERVICE UNAVAILABLE". This change introduces additional retry attempts to remedy the situation.
(12/07/2022) Resolved an issue where the API stopped processing upon encountering "UNABLE - PRINTER PROFILE RECORD 01 IS ACTIVE". This happens when customers attempts to designate a printer which is already active in their session. After the change, the API will ignore this downline system message and proceed to issue tickets.
(04/04/2023) Fixed an intermittent issue where the service would keep waiting for a payment card verification response even when the process failed "VENDOR PROCESSING ERROR/CALL CARD ISSUER". From now on, when the API encounters such error it will proceed to the next step in the orchestration and will not wait for card verification confirmation.
(04/04/2023) The API will always attempt to undesignate printer before designation. This prevents a situation where a customer calls the API with a previously assigned printer and tries to assign it yet again. Such scenario previously resulted in a service failure.
(05/30/2023) From now on the API will allow customers to commit changes only once for multiple ticket scenarios at PostProcessing.EndTransaction.generateSingleInvoice (defaults to "false") . When set to "true" the API will commit the changes made to the PNR only after all required tickets have been issued. This addresses [ASTSP-448].

Enhanced Air Ticket 1.3.0 on April 28, 2022

Service Action Code: AirTicketRQ

Added capability to pass cost center information at /Ticketing/FOP_Qualifiers/BasicFOP.CostCenter.
Added capability to indicate manual OB fee that should be associated with the payment card at /Ticketing/FOP_Qualifiers/BasicFOP/CC_Info/PaymentCard/ManualOBFee.
Added capability to reference a form of payment from a PNR FOP field for multiple form of payment ticketing transactions at /Ticketing/FOP_Qualifiers/BSP_Ticketing/MultipleFOP/Reference.
Added capability to associate baggage allowance per specific flight segment at /Ticketing/MiscQualifiers/BaggageAllowance/SegmentSelect.
Added capability to claim commission on the Net Fare during ticketing transaction at /Ticketing/MiscQualifiers/Commission/Net.
Added capability to specify an 8 digit discount approval code at /Ticketing/MiscQualifiers/Discount/Code.
Added capability to issue paperless service fee using the service fee amount stored in the TJR settings for the agency at /Ticketing/MiscQualifiers/MISF.
Added capability to pass discount amount, selling fare amount and tour code for Net Remit ticketing transactions at /Ticketing/MiscQualifiers/NetRemit.
(11/17/2022) [Part 1] Added .../PostProcessing/CreditVerificationInterval which will let you extend the current delay interval for ticketing price quotes when the system encounters "CREDIT VERIFICATION IN PROGRESS" message. This happens when Sabre system waits for a response from the credit card company.
(11/17/2022) [Part 2] You will have a choice to extend the wait time from 3000 to 10000 ms. Please remember that the API counts the number of price quotes within a single <Ticketing/> element, so if there's two price quotes a delay of 5000 ms this will effectively mean waiting 10000ms.
(12/07/2022) Resolved an intermittent issue where the API could not undesignate printers due to a gateway error "SC SERVICE UNAVAILABLE". This change introduces additional retry attempts to remedy the situation.
(12/07/2022) Resolved an issue where the API stopped processing upon encountering "UNABLE - PRINTER PROFILE RECORD 01 IS ACTIVE". This happens when customers attempts to designate a printer which is already active in their session. After the change, the API will ignore this downline system message and proceed to issue tickets.
(04/04/2023) Fixed an intermittent issue where the service would keep waiting for a payment card verification response even when the process failed "VENDOR PROCESSING ERROR/CALL CARD ISSUER". From now on, when the API encounters such error it will proceed to the next step in the orchestration and will not wait for card verification confirmation.
(04/04/2023) The API will always attempt to undesignate printer before designation. This prevents a situation where a customer calls the API with a previously assigned printer and tries to assign it yet again. Such scenario previously resulted in a service failure.
(05/30/2023) From now on the API will allow customers to commit changes only once for multiple ticket scenarios at /PostProcessing/EndTransaction/@generateSingleInvoice (defaults to "false") . When set to "true" the API will commit the changes made to the PNR only after all required tickets have been issued. This addresses [ASTSP-448].