AS NDC requires passenger name and Date of Birth (DOB) in the SeatAvailabilityRQ to:

• Validate loyalty information (if applicable) with passenger name
• Prevent underage passenger to seat in non-eligible seat with passenger Date of Birth (DOB)
• Keep consistent with our direct channel to send back a single seat map that applies to all passengers in the request

Only one passenger information is needed in SeatAvailabilityRQ to get entire seat map

 

SeatAvailability Request Example - Two Passengers Round Trip

Initial Booking Flow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<IATA_SeatAvailabilityRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersMessage">
    <DistributionChain>
        <DistributionChainLink xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Ordinal>1</Ordinal>
            <OrgRole>Distributor</OrgRole>
            <ParticipatingOrg>
            </Name>
            <!-- Update to your organization name -->
            </OrgID>
            <!-- Update to your IATA number -->  
            </ParticipatingOrg>
        </DistributionChainLink>
        <DistributionChainLink xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Ordinal>2</Ordinal>
            <OrgRole>Seller</OrgRole>
            <ParticipatingOrg>
            </Name>
            <!-- Update to your organization name -->
            </OrgID>
            <!-- Update to your IATA number -->  
            </ParticipatingOrg>
        </DistributionChainLink>
    </DistributionChain>
    <PayloadAttributes>
        <VersionNumber xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">21.3</VersionNumber>
    </PayloadAttributes>
    <Request>
        <!-- 1st Passenger with optional loyalty data -->
        <Pax xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Individual>
                <Birthdate>2000-01-01</Birthdate>
                <GivenName></GivenName>
                <MiddleName></MiddleName>
                <SuffixName></SuffixName>
                <Surname></Surname>
            </Individual>
            <LoyaltyProgramAccount>
                <AccountNumber></AccountNumber>
                <LoyaltyProgram>
                    <Carrier>
                        <AirlineDesigCode>AS</AirlineDesigCode>
                    </Carrier>
                </LoyaltyProgram>
            </LoyaltyProgramAccount>
            <!-- Use any value for PaxID since order has not been created and no real PaxID is generated -->  
            <PaxID>1</PaxID>
        </Pax>
        <!-- 2nd Passenger without loyalty information -->
        <Pax xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Individual>
                <Birthdate>2000-01-01</Birthdate>
                <GivenName></GivenName>
                <MiddleName></MiddleName>
                <SuffixName></SuffixName>
                <Surname></Surname>
            </Individual>
            <!-- Use any value for PaxID since order has not been created and no real PaxID is generated -->  
            <PaxID>2</PaxID>
        </Pax>
        <SeatAvailCoreRequest xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <OfferRequest>
                <Offer>
                    <!-- Use the OfferItemID from OfferPriceRS -->
                    <OfferID>{{offerItemId}}</OfferID>
                    <OwnerCode>AS</OwnerCode>
                </Offer>
            </OfferRequest>
        </SeatAvailCoreRequest>
    </Request>
</IATA_SeatAvailabilityRQ>

 

Post Booking Flow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<IATA_SeatAvailabilityRQ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersMessage">
    <DistributionChain>
        <DistributionChainLink xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Ordinal>1</Ordinal>
            <OrgRole>Distributor</OrgRole>
            <ParticipatingOrg>
            </Name>
            <!-- Update to your organization name -->
            </OrgID>
            <!-- Update to your IATA number -->  
            </ParticipatingOrg>
        </DistributionChainLink>
        <DistributionChainLink xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Ordinal>2</Ordinal>
            <OrgRole>Seller</OrgRole>
            <ParticipatingOrg>
            </Name>
            <!-- Update to your organization name -->
            </OrgID>
            <!-- Update to your IATA number -->  
            </ParticipatingOrg>
        </DistributionChainLink>
    </DistributionChain>
    <PayloadAttributes>
        <VersionNumber xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">21.3</VersionNumber>
    </PayloadAttributes>
    <Request>
        <!-- 1st Passenger with loyalty data which can be found in OrderRetrieve -->
        <Pax xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Individual>
                <Birthdate>2000-01-01</Birthdate>
                <GivenName></GivenName>
                <MiddleName></MiddleName>
                <SuffixName></SuffixName>
                <Surname></Surname>
            </Individual>
            <LoyaltyProgramAccount>
                <AccountNumber></AccountNumber>
                <LoyaltyProgram>
                    <Carrier>
                        <AirlineDesigCode>AS</AirlineDesigCode>
                    </Carrier>
                </LoyaltyProgram>
            </LoyaltyProgramAccount>
            <!-- Use the PaxID from OrderViewRS -->  
            <PaxID>1.1</PaxID>
        </Pax>
        <!-- 2nd Passenger without loyalty information -->
        <Pax xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <Individual>
                <Birthdate>2000-01-01</Birthdate>
                <GivenName></GivenName>
                <MiddleName></MiddleName>
                <SuffixName></SuffixName>
                <Surname></Surname>
            </Individual>
            <!-- Use the PaxID from OrderViewRS -->  
            <PaxID>2.1</PaxID>
        </Pax>
        <SeatAvailCoreRequest xmlns="http://www.iata.org/IATA/2015/EASD/00/IATA_OffersAndOrdersCommonTypes">
            <OrderRequest>
                <Order>
                    <OrderID>{{orderId}}</OrderID>
                    <OrderItem>
                        <!-- Not used, you can leave as null -->
                        <OrderItemID></OrderItemID>
                        <OwnerCode>AS</OwnerCode>
                        <!-- Either PaxRefID will bring entire seat map -->  
                        <PaxRefID>1.1</PaxRefID>
                    </OrderItem>
                    <OwnerCode>AS</OwnerCode>
                </Order>
            </OrderRequest>
        </SeatAvailCoreRequest>
    </Request>
</IATA_SeatAvailabilityRQ>