Processes
To issue a ticket using the API WebSkyTech web service, it is needed to perform several operations in sequence:
- Search and selection of a flight with a suitable fare
- Booking of the selected flight
- Ticketing
- Exchange
Each operation can be carried out using one or more requests to the web service. The sequence of executed requests can vary depending on your needs, but there is an approximate order that is recommended to follow: searching for airline flights, checking seats availability, booking a flight (obtained on the prevous step), transmission of passenger data (if they were not transmitted during the booking), ticketing and getting ticket numbers. Some airlines provide an opportunity to choose the fare family on which various parameters of flight depend, for example, weight of the baggage which can be carried with you on board the plane or the ticket refunding conditions. During the booking on the side of the supplier and WebSkyTech, the entity of the order with its unique ID will be created and subsequent requests will already work not with the flight but with the created order. Airlines have restrictions on the lifetime of unticketed orders, after which the order will be canceled by the supplier; it is also possible that the airline cancels the order or changes the cost of the flight even before the end of the time-limit, so it is strongly recommended to synchronize the order with the supplier before the payment. Below is the possible algoritm of issuing the ticket with the used requests specified.
Please use the newest versions of the requests.
SOAPAction header is mandatory.
Obtaining the TSA (terms of tariff application) using the request AdditionalOperations_1_2 (GetFareRules) is mandatory for implementation for suppliers supporting this functionality, if it is not possible to specify a reference to the TSA from the client side.
Requests specified in the flowchart are mandatory for implementation, except for GetFareFamilies, if the Fare Families selection functionality is not supported on the client or supplier side.
More details on the various processes and information for each request is described in the following articles.