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Action

ReqRootElement

ResRootElement

Comment

1

SciGetAvailabiltiy

SCIAVLQRY

SCIAVLRPL

OW or RT availability search for a city pair

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

AVLQRY

n/a

M

1

See below E1_2)

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

DEPPOINT

string

M

1

Departure city or airport code. Use IATA or STC (TCH) code. Specifying part of the name (Russian or English) is also allowed.

C

E

Explanation

Н

N

only Non-stop flights

П

D

only Direct flights

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

AVLQRY

n/a

M

1

See below E1_2)

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

DEPPOINT

string

M

1

Departure city or airport code. Use IATA or STC (TCH) code. Specifying part of the name (Russian or English) is also allowed.

ARRPOINT

string

M

1

Arrival city or airport code. Use IATA or STC (TCH) code. Specifying part of the name (Russian or English) is also allowed.

ROUTETYPE

string

O

1

Journey type:

OW – one-way

RT – round-trip

DATEOUT

dateTime

M

1

Departure date for outbound flight

DATEBACK

dateTime

O

1

Departure date for return flight. Use only if ROUTETYPE=’RT’

NODAYS

short

O

1

Number of days to perform the search for. If specified, the search will be done for the range [DATEOUT; DATEOUT+NODAYS]. The same applies to DATEBACK

NOSEATS

short

O

1

Number of seats. Flights / RBD with availability less than NOSEATS will be excluded from the response

TIMEOUTMIN

TIMEOUTMAX

long

O

1

Departure time range for outbound flight. Provide range limits as numbers of seconds after 00:00 of DATEOUT

TIMEBACKMIN

TIMEBACKMAX

long

O

1

Departure time range for return flight. Provide range limits as numbers of seconds after 00:00 of DATEBACK

AK

string

O

1

Carrier code. Use IATA or STC (TCH) code.

SERVCLASS

string

O

1

Service class code:

П/Б/Э

F/C/Y (only for English users!)

DIRECTONLY

short

O

1

obsolete

FLAGS

string

O

1

Additional preferences (modifiers of СМ/AD entry in TAIS CRS). Provide as many modifiers as needed without separators (e.g., ‘NO’). Please note that in the explanation below both Cyrillic (C) and English (E) codes are provided. Cyrillic codes are available to all users. English codes are available only to English users!

Flight Type:

Inventory Modifier:

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

AVLQRY

n/a

M

1

See below E1_22)

COMPANYLKP

n/a

M

Carrier reference data. For explanation, please refer to the relevant sciWhat section (TBA)

FLIGHT

n/a

M

See below E1_23)

FLIGHTAVL

n/a

M

See below E1_24)

PLANETYPELKP

n/a

M

Equipment Type reference data. For explanation, please refer to the relevant sciWhat section (TBA)

TOWN

n/a

M

Point reference data. For explanation, please refer to the relevant sciWhat section (TBA)

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

RSSLINKDOWN

short

M

1

Gallileo RSS link availability flag

0 – link available

1 – link down

Galileo RSS is a mechanism providing TAIS CRS with availability data of GDS Galileo.

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

ORDERNO

short

M

1

First part of the unique FLIGHT element reference within the response. The complete reference consists of ORDERNO and POSINROUTE.

When a connection (two or more connecting flights) is returned in the response, all flights of the connection have the same ORDERNO but different POSINROUTE (see below).

POSINROUTE

short

M

1

Second part of the unique FLIGHT element reference within the response. The complete reference consists of ORDERNO and POSINROUTE.

When a connection (two or more connecting flights) is returned in the response, all flights of the connection have the same ORDERNO but different POSINROUTE (see below). POSINOUTE numbering begins with 1.

For direct flights, this element value is always 0.

AK

string

M

1

Marketing carrier code

OAK

string

O

1

Operating carrier code (for code-share flights only)

FLIGHTNO

string

M

1

Flight number

DEPDATE

date

M

1

Departure date

TOS

string

O

1

Type of service:

PLANETYPE

string

M

Equipment type

DEPARPT

string

M

Departure airport code

DEPTERM

string

O

Departure terminal code

ARRARPT

string

M

Arrival airport code

ARRTERM

string

O

Arrival terminal code

DEPTIME

long

M

Departure time. Number of seconds after 00:00:00 of DEPDATE

ARRTIME

long

M

Arrival time. Number of seconds after 00:00:00 of DEPDATE

CHECKINTIME

long

M

Check-in start time. Number of seconds after 00:00:00 of DEPDATE

DEPTIMEGMT

long

M

Departure time in GMT/UTC. Number of seconds after 00:00:00 of DEPDATE. Can be negative.

ARRTIMEGMT

long

M

Arrival time in GMT/UTC. Number of seconds after 00:00:00 of DEPDATE. Can be negative.

NOSTOPS

short

O

Number of intermediate stops. This is used only for flights with the same flight number and one or several scheduled landings in the route. Not to be confused with connections, which consist of different flight numbers and therefore are shown as separate FLIGHT elements.

MEAL

string

O

1

Currently not used

INVGRD

INVORG

string

string

O

1

Code of the flight inventory system (e.g., MUC1A). Normally blank for TAIS-hosted airline projects.

ACCESSLEVEL

short

M

1

Flight inventory access level (for booking):

0 – unavailable

1 – standard (teletype)

2 – interactive

3 – local TAIS CRS host

LINKSTATUS

short

M

1

Flight availability source link status:

0 – no link

1 – link down

2 – link up

3 – local TAIS CRS host

AVLSOURCE

short

M

1

Availability source type:

0 – no availability data

1– Segment AVS (offline data based on processing of teletype Availability Status Messages which tell that seats are available but don’t tell how many)

2– Numeric AVS (offline data based on processing of teletype Availability Status Messages which tell how many seats are available)

3 – cached real-time data from airline host

4 – real-time data from airline host

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

ORDERNO

short

M

1

First part of the unique reference to the FLIGHT element within the response.

A set of FLIGHTAVL elements with the same unique reference provides availability data for all booking classes of the given FLIGHT.

POSINROUTE

short

M

1

Second part of the unique reference to the FLIGHT element within the response

A set of FLIGHTAVL elements with the same unique reference provides availability data for all booking classes of the given FLIGHT.

RBD

string

M

1

Booking class

SERVCLASS

string

M

1

Service class

NOSEATS

string

M

1

Seat availability

1-9 – no less than the number of seats shown

0 – no seats, waitlist open

R – on request

С – no seats, waitlist open

X – flight/class canceled