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nameParticipantSection

Participant Section

NAME

DESCRIPTION

FORMAT

ALLOWED/POSSIBLE VALUES

NDC SERVICES

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Name

Travel Agency Name.

This is the Travel Agent who is registered with Iberia and British Airways as managing travel for the above Corporate. A validation check is run against our Sales database.

Alphanumeric

Any

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Type

Only when using IATA Delegationfunctionality.

Mandatory for IATA Delegation when CorporateSender is used.

This is used to indicate whether the TravelAgencyParticipant is the agency undertaking the Servicing or the agency that created or paid for the order.

see example: https: //transform.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NDCDOC/pages/3968073922/Party+Elements#6.-When-using-IATA-Delegation Party Elements

Only as per allowed values

"SERVICING_IATA"

or

"RESPONSIBLE_IATA"

This element is returned in all services except:

AirShopping

OfferPrice

OrderCreate

OrderList

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts

Info

Attribute

Contact@ContactType

Used to indicate to whom to send email confirmation emails and what information to include

Only as per allowed values

"itin_only"

or

"itin_and_price"

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts / Contact / EmailContact / Address

 Email to contact the Agency

 Alphanumeric

Any

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts / Contact / PhoneContact / Application

To indicate whether the Travel Agency phone is a fixed line or mobile.

Only as per allowed values

"BUSINESS"

or

"MOBILE"

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts / Contact / PhoneContact / Number

Phone number to contact the Travel Agency

 Numeric

Any

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts / Contact / Name / Surname

The surname of the person to contact in the Travel Agency.

Mandatory for schema if 'Name' tag is indicated.

  Alphanumeric

Any

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / Contacts / Contact / Name / Given

The given name of the person to contact in the Travel Agency

 Alphanumeric

Any

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

Participants / Participant

Info

Attribute

TravelAgencyParticipant@SequenceNumber

AggregatorParticipant@SequenceNumber

Sequence number related to the Participants, irrespective of their type (TravelAgency, Aggregator, etc…), sent in the request.

The order of the sequence number must follow the order in which the parties are connecting to our API. With the highest number being the party whose API key is being used to connect to us, and the lowest number (1) being the party in contact with the travelling passenger.

See example 5 below.

Numeric

All messages when there are more than one Participant.

Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / IATA_Number

The Travel Agency’s unique identifier:

IATA number (if you have one)

TIDs number  (recommended if you do not have an IATA)

If using the IATA Delegation functionality for Servicing orders:

  • If no CorporateSender information is included in the message, then the Responsible IATA's number must be included here.

  • If CorporateSender information is included in the message, then the Servicing IATA’s number and the Responsible IATA's number must both be included here with their SequenceNumber and their applicable Type. The Servicing IATA must have the lowest SequenceNumber and the Responsible IATA must be the next number in the sequence. In both cases.

See examples below

7/8 Numeric

The identifier registered with Iberia.

All Request messages, and OrderView when using CorporateSender.

All Servicing Request messages (except OrderListRQ), and OrderView when using IATA Delegation.

 Participants / Participant / TravelAgencyParticipant / AgencyID

Iberia do not presently use this field, although it is mandatory as per the schema.

 Alphanumeric

Any

 Participants / Participant

Info

Attribute

AggregatorParticipant@SequenceNumber

Sequence number related to the Participantsirrespective of their type (TravelAgency, Aggregator, etc…), sent in the request.

The order of the sequence number must follow the order in which the parties are connecting to our API. With the highest number being the party whose API key is being used to connect to us, and the lowest number (1) being the party in contact with the travelling passenger.

See example 5 below.

Numeric

This element is returned in all services except:

OrderViewRS

 Participants / Participant / AggregatorParticipant / AggregatorID

The unique identifier of the Aggregator. This can be any of the following:

IATA number (if you have one)

TIDs number  (recommended if you do not have an IATA)

Pseudo IATA(assigned by Iberia and British Airways)

7/8 Numeric

The identifier registered with Iberia.

This element is returned in all services except:

OrderViewRS

 Participants / Participant / AggregatorParticipant / Name

The name of the Aggregator as stored in our database associated to the AggregatorID. following:

Alphanumeric

The name registered with Iberia.

This element is ONLY used and returned in the:

OrderChangeNotification

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titleExample Corporate with TravelAgencyParticipant:
Code Block
languagexml
<Party>
	<Sender>
		<CorporateSender>
			<ID>XXXXXXXX</ID>
		</CorporateSender>
	</Sender>
	<Participants>
		<Participant>
			<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="1">
				<Name>AgencyName</Name>
				<Contacts>
					<Contact>
						<EmailContact>
							<Address>AgencyMail@xxx.com</Address>
						</EmailContact>
						<PhoneContact>
							<Application>BUSINESS</Application>
							<Number>+34#########</Number>
						</PhoneContact>
						<Name>
							<Surname>MartÌnez</Surname>
							<Given>Pepe</Given>
						</Name>
					</Contact>
				</Contacts>
				<IATA_Number>########</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>TravelAgent</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
		</Participant>
	</Participants>
</Party>

4. CorporateSender with just

...

TravelAgencyParticipant:

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titleExample Corporate with TravelAgencyParticipant:
Code Block
languagexml
<Party>
		<Sender>
		<CorporateSender>
			<ID>XXXXXXXX</ID>
		</CorporateSender>
	</Sender>
	<Participants>
		<Participant>
		<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="1">
				<Name>AgencyName</Name>
				<Contacts>
					<Contact>
						<EmailContact>
							<Address>AgencyMail@xxx.com</Address>
						</EmailContact>
						<PhoneContact>
							<Application>BUSINESS</Application>
							<Number>+34#########</Number>
						</PhoneContact>
						<Name>
							<Surname>MartÌnez</Surname>
							<Given>Pepe</Given>
						</Name>
					</Contact>
				</Contacts>
				<IATA_Number>########</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>TravelAgent</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
			</Participant>
	</Participants>
</Party>

5. CorporateSender with

...

TravelAgencyParticipant and Aggregator Participant:

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titleExample Corporate with TraveAgencyParticipant and Aggregator Participant:
Code Block
languagexml
<Party>
	<Sender>
		<CorporateSender>
			<ID>XXXXXXXX</ID>
		</CorporateSender>
	</Sender>
	<Participants>
		<Participant>
			<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="1">
				<Name>AgencyName</Name>
				<Contacts>
					<Contact>
						<EmailContact>
							<Address>AgencyMail@xxx.com</Address>
						</EmailContact>
						<PhoneContact>
							<Application>BUSINESS</Application>
							<Number>+34#########</Number>
						</PhoneContact>
						<Name>
							<Surname>Martínez</Surname>
							<Given>Pepe</Given>
						</Name>
					</Contact>
				</Contacts>
				<IATA_Number>########</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>firstAgency</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
		</Participant>
		<Participant>
			<AggregatorParticipant SequenceNumber="2">
				<AggregatorID>########</AggregatorID>
			</AggregatorParticipant>
		</Participant>
	</Participants>
</Party>

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titleExample TravelAgencySender with AggregatorParticipant using IATA Delegation
Code Block
languagexml
<Party>
	<Sender>
<TravelAgencySender>
			<Name>TEST TRAVEL AGENCY</Name>
			<Contacts>
				<Contact>
					<EmailContact>
						<Address>agencia@prueba.com</Address>
					</EmailContact>
					<PhoneContact>
						<Application>MOBILE</Application>
						<Number>+34#########</Number>
					</PhoneContact>
					<Name>
						<Surname>Perez-Nieto</Surname>
						<Given>Pepe</Given>
					</Name>
				</Contact>
			</Contacts>
			<IATA_Number>########</IATA_Number>
			<AgencyID>TESTTRAVELAGENCY</AgencyID>
		</TravelAgencySender>
	</Sender>
	<Participants>
		<Participant>
			<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="2">
				<IATA_Number>78298065</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>Barceló</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
		</Participant>
		<Participant>
			<AggregatorParticipant SequenceNumber="3">
				<AggregatorID>00010113</AggregatorID>
			</AggregatorParticipant>
		</Participant>
	</Participants>
</Party>

REMEMBER - - When using IATA Delegation, the Sender is always the Servicing IATA and the TravelAgencyParticipant is always the Responsible IATA. Therefore, no Type element is necessary to identify the role each is playing.

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titleExample Corporate with TraveAgencyParticipants and Aggregator Participant:
Code Block
languagexml
<Party>
	<Sender>
		<CorporateSender>
			<ID>IN3401ES</ID>
		</CorporateSender>
	</Sender>
	<Participants>
		<Participant>
			<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="1">
				<Type>SERVICING_IATA</Type>
				<IATA_Number>11112220</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>AGENCY_B</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
		</Participant>
		<Participant>
			<TravelAgencyParticipant SequenceNumber="2">
				<Type>RESPONSIBLE_IATA</Type>
				<IATA_Number>78298065</IATA_Number>
				<AgencyID>Barceló</AgencyID>
			</TravelAgencyParticipant>
		</Participant>
		<Participant>
			<AggregatorParticipant SequenceNumber="3">
				<AggregatorID>00010113</AggregatorID>
			</AggregatorParticipant>
		</Participant>
	</Participants>
</Party>

REMEMBER - - When CorporateSender is included in the Party section of the message, the Type element must be included for each of the TravelAgencyParticipants to indicate the role each of them is playing in the delegation process.

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