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Action

Input

Output

Comment

1

SciGetAvailabiltiy

SCIAVLQRY

SCIAVLRPL

OW or RT availability search for a city pair

2

SciGetAvailableFares

SCIAVAILFARESQRY

SCIAVAILFARESRPL

Combined Availability and Fare Search

3

SciCreatePNR

SCIPNRCREATEDATA

SCIPNR

PNR creation in one step, including SSR etc

4

SciGetPNR

SCILOCATOR

SCIPNR

PNR retrieval

5

SciPNRFareQuote

SCIPNRFAREQUOTEQRY

SCIFAREQUOTERPL

PNR pricing

6

SciTicketIssue

SCITICKETISSUEQRY

SCIDOCSET

Ticket issuance

7

SciTicketVoid

SCITICKETVOIDQRY

SCIDOCSET

Ticket void

8

SciPNRExchangeQuote

SCIPNREXCQUOTEQRY

SCIEXCQUOTERPL

Ticket Exchange Quote

9

SciTicketExchange

SCITICKETEXCQRY

SCIDOCSET

Ticket Exchange

10

SciRefundQuote

SCIRFNDQUOTEQRY

SCIRFNDQUOTERPL

Ticket Refund Quote

11

SciTicketRefund

SCIRFNDQUOTEQRY

SCIRFNDQUOTERPL

Ticket Refund

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

1

Equipment type

DEPARPT

string

M

1

Departure airport code

DEPTERM

string

O

1

Departure terminal code

ARRARPT

string

M

1

Arrival airport code

ARRTERM

string

O

1

Arrival terminal code

DEPTIME

long

M

1

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

ARRTIME

long

M

1

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

CHECKINTIME

long

M

1

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

DEPTIMEGMT

long

M

1

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

ARRTIMEGMT

long

M

1

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

NOSTOPS

short

O

1

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 closed

X – flight/class canceled

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

AVAILFARESQRY

n/a

M

1

See below E3_2)

PRICINGOPT

n/a

O

See below E3_3)

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

CURRENCY

string

O

1

Pricing (and payment) currency. Use IATA or STC (TCH) code.

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 the return flight. Please note that this method returns flights ONLY from DEPPOINT to ARRPOINT! DATEBACK, if provided, will not be used for the return flight search, but for validation of MIN and MAX STAY in Fare Rules

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!)

PCSET

string

O

1

Passenger type code. Please use ‘КП’ (‘PTC’ in English) command on TAIS CRS terminal for a complete list. Some commonly used codes are:

CNN – child

INF – infant

INS – infant occupying a seat

YTH – youth

SRC – senior

MIL – military (there are a lot of other codes for military persons)

SEA – seaman

blank – adult

PMSET

string

O

1

Form of payment. Normally not used for this query.

FLAGS

string

O

1

Additional preferences (modifiers of СК/?? entry in TAIS CRS). Provide as many modifiers as needed without separators (e.g., ‘RT’). 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!

Fare Type:

Route Type:

Tax Inclusion:

Booking Class Inclusion:

Availability Level:

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

OPTKEY

string

M

1

Option key (name). Details are available from TAIS upon request.

OPTVAL

string

M

1

Option value. Details are available from TAIS upon request.

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

AVAILFARESRPL

n/a

M

1

See below E3_22)

COMPANYLKP

n/a

M

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

CURENCYLKP

n/a

M

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

FLIGHT

n/a

M

See below E3_23)

FLIGHTAVL

n/a

M

See below E3_24)

FARE

n/a

M

See below E3_25)

FAREAVL

See below E3_26)

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

CURRENCY

string

M

1

Pricing (and payment) currency. Encoding (Cyrillic / English) will depend on your language settings.

LINKDOWN

short

M

1

“Link down” flag for fare queries sent by Sirena to some other hosts

0 – no “link down“ situation occured

1 – “link donw” situation occured

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

1

Equipment type

DEPARPT

string

M

1

Departure airport code

DEPTERM

string

O

1

Departure terminal code

ARRARPT

string

M

1

Arrival airport code

ARRTERM

string

O

1

Arrival terminal code

DEPTIME

long

M

1

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

ARRTIME

long

M

1

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

CHECKINTIME

long

M

1

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

DEPTIMEGMT

long

M

1

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

ARRTIMEGMT

long

M

1

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

NOSTOPS

short

O

1

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

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

FARENO

short

M

1

Unique reference to the FARE element within the response.

AK

string

M

1

Carrier code

TARCODE

string

M

1

Fare basis code

PASSCAT0

string

M

1

Passenger type code. Please use ‘КП’ (‘PTC’ in English) command on TAIS CRS terminal for a complete list. Some commonly used codes are:

CNN – child

INF – infant

INS – infant occupying a seat

YTH – youth

SRC – senior

MIL – military (there are a lot of other codes for military persons)

SEA – seaman

ADT – adult

PASSCAT1

string

O

1

Passenger type code for Discount 1

PASSCAT2

string

M

1

Passenger type code for Discount 2. This element is always present but can be blank.

PCT1

short

M

1

Percentage of Discount 1

PCT2

float

M

1

Percentage of Discount 1

RBD

string

M

1

Booking class

VALINTARCUROW

float

M

1

Fare amount for a OW journey in the fare filing (publication) currency

VALINTARCURRT

float

M

1

Fare amount for a RT journey in the fare filing (publication) currency

TARCUR

string

M

1

Fare filing (publication) currency

VALINPAYCUROW

float

O

1

Fare amount for a OW journey in the payment currency

VALINPAYCURRT

float

O

1

Fare amount for a RT journey in the payment currency

EXCHANGERATE

float

O

1

Exchange rate used

UPTKEY

string

M

1

Reference to the Fare Rules. This reference can be used to retrieve Fare Rules via the SciGetUPT request.

VIAPOINTS

string

M

1

Intermediate points for through fares

DATN

dateTime

M

1

Fare effective date (flight departure date)

DATK

dateTime

O

1

Fare discontinued date (flight departure date)

DAYSOUT

string

M

1

Allowed departure Days of Week for the outbound flight:

1 – Monday

135 – Monday, Wedndsaday, Friday

1234567 – daily

DAYSBACK

string

O

1

Allowed departure Days of Week for the return flight

MINSTAY

MAXSTAY

string

O

1

Minumum and maximum stay in the turnaround point:

7 – seven days

3MB – three months

1SUN – “Sunday rule”

blank – no restrictions

STARTTERM

STOPTERM

string

O

1

Sale start and end dates allowed by the fare, in relation to the departure date:

TAXVALUEOW

float

M

1

Tax amount for the OW flight

TAXVALUERT

float

O

1

Tax amount for the RT flight

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

ORDERNO

short

M

1

First part of the unique reference to the FLIGHT / FLIGHTAVL element within the response

POSINROUTE

short

M

1

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

RBD

string

M

1

Booking class

FARENO

string

M

1

Unique reference to the FARE element within the response.

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

ORDER

n/a

M

1

General data. See below E2_1)

PASSENGER

n/a

M

99

Passenger data. See below E2_2)

PSGRDISC

n/a

O

Passenger type code (not required for adults). See below E2_3)

PSGRREF

n/a

O

Reference between PASSENGER and SSR, OSI, COMMENT, FFPDOC elements. See below E2_4)

AIRSEG

n/a

M

16

Flight segment. See below E2_5)

SSR

n/a

O

Special Service Request. See below E2_6)

OSI

n/a

O

Other Service Information. See below E2_7)

COMMENT

n/a

O

Comment. See below E2_8)

TELEPHONE

n/a

M

Contact. See below E2_9)

FFPINFO

n/a

O

Frequent Flyer data. See below E2_10)

ITNPRICE

n/a

O

Not used for PNR creation without pricing

ITNFARE

n/a

O

Not used for PNR creation without pricing

ITNFAREPART

n/a

O

Not used for PNR creation without pricing

TAX

n/a

O

Not used for PNR creation without pricing

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

LOCATOR

string

M

1

PNR locator (unique reference). Specify ‘NEW’ for a new PNR.

ORDTYPE

string

M

1

PNR Type:

С – non-group PNR

G – group PNR

GROUPNAME

string

O

1

Group name (for group PNR only)

NOADULT

short

M

1

Number of Adults

NOCHILDREN

short

M

1

Number of Children

NOINFANTS

short

M

1

Number of Infants

TLTYPE1

string

O

1

Type of time limit 1 (a PNR can have two time limits in TAIS CRS):

blank – to be calculated by TAIS CRS

‘-‘ – no time limit

A – automatic

М – manual

I – immediate ticketing

EXPIREDATE1

dateTime

O

1

Expiration time of time limit 1. Local time of the TLPOINT point. If TLPOINT is omitted, time zone of the TAIS CRS terminal executing the request will be assumed.

TLTYPE2

string

O

1

Type of time limit 2

EXPIREDATE2

dateTime

O

1

Expiration time of time limit 2

TLPOINT

string

O

1

Point (location) whose time zone is assumed to be used in EXPIREDATE1 / EXPIREDATE2. If omitted, time zone of the TAIS CRS terminal executing the request will be assumed.

TKTGRD

TKTORG

string

string

O

1

Ticketing organization (agency) code. If omitted, same as booking organization.

Booking organization is defined by settings of TAIS CRS terminal executing the request.

TKTOFFICENO

long

O

1

Ticketing office code (within ticketing organization). If omitted, same as booking office code.

Booking organization is defined by settings of TAIS CRS terminal executing the request.

ERSPUSERID

string

O

1

ERSP user ID

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

LOCATOR

string

M

1

PNR locator (unique reference). Specify ‘NEW’ for a new PNR.

PSGRID

short

M

1

Passenger unique ID within the request

PSGRNAME

string

M

1

Use Russian or English language based on airline rules and journey type. The format is:

LastName FirstName PatrName Title DoB

Examples:

ИВАНОВ ИВАН ИВАНОВИЧ ГН

ПЕТРОВ ФЕДЯ ГН 12ДЕК10

SMITH JULIA MS

DOE JANE MS 12FEB13

PASSPORT

string

O

1

Passenger passport/ID data (FOID) Please provide if required by the airline. The format is:

IDDoc Country IDNum ExpDate

IDDoc – document type. Both Sirena/TCH and IATA code sets are supported.Sirena / TCH codes are available in Russian and English. Some useful Sirena / TCH codes are below (complete list available in TAIS CRS documentation).

IATA codes are the ones below.

CC – credit card number

CN – confirmation number

DL – driving license

FF – FQTV number

ID – local ID

NI – national identity number

PP – passport number

TN – ticket number

Of these, you would normally be using ID or PP.

Country – two-character alpha code of the document issuing country

IDNum – document number (alphanumeric)

ExpDate – document expiry date. This is not available for IATA codes. For Sirena / TCH codes, try the FOID entry via TAIS CRS terminal first to see if this is required/supported for the given document type, as this can be host-specific and changes over time. Or contact TAIS.

Examples:

ПС РФ 1234567890

PS RU 1234567890

PP TR 2387

RESIDENCE

string

NA

1

Not used

BORDERZONEDOC

string

O

1

Border zone entry permission details (free-flow text). Don’t use this element if not sure if it’s needed.

ADULTID

short

O

1

Reference to the accompanying adult passenger’s PSGRID (for children and infants)

Name

Type

ST

RP

Comment

LOCATOR

string

M

1

PNR locator (unique reference). Specify ‘NEW’ for a new PNR

PSGRID

short

M

1

Reference to the passenger’s PSGRID

ORDNO

short

M

1

Passenger type code sequential number for the given passenger

PASSCAT

string