- NDC Hub
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Getting Started
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Functional Capabilities
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17.2 API Reference
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AirShopping
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OfferPrice
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OrderCreate
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OrderCancel
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OrderRetrieve
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OrderList
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SeatAvailability
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OrderReshop
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OrderChange
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OrderChangeNotif
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ServiceList
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Common Types/DataLists
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- Party & Sender
- BaggageAllowanceList
- BagDisclosureList
- ContactList
- DescriptionList
- Document
- DisclosureList
- Errors
- FareList
- FlightList
- FlightSegmentList
- MediaList
- OriginDestinationList
- PassengerList
- PenaltyList
- PriceClassList
- RuleMetaDatas
- SeatDefinitionList
- ServiceDefinitionList
- Warnings
- AddressMetaData
- CurrencyMetaData
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AirShopping
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File Assets
- Revision Notifications
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Testing your build
- Sandbox Tool
Introduction
These pages are intended primarily for developers focusing on the integration of British Airways NDC Content through our APIs. In the left hand column you will find detailed information on all APIs along with flows and XML examples to help. The feedback button appears on all pages and we would appreciate your comments, which will help us to continually improve these pages.
What is NDC?
NDC is a travel industry-supported programme launched by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to improve communications between airlines and travel agents. NDC facilitates access to a richer and more complete inventory from the airlines, as well as access to the wider range of services they offer, than was possible through legacy systems.
NDC offers an end-to-end flow including Shop, Price, Hold, Book, Service (change/cancel) and disruption management.
British Airways currently develops to and support the NDC 17.2 XSD API Schema. We have been certified to the highest level of @Scale by IATA based upon the 17.2 Schema and our recommendation is for you to develop to 17.2 to allow British Airways to offer you full support. Throughout these pages, revisions will be highlighted and we encourage you to use the latest revision.
Get API Key
Before building you will require a PRE-LIVE client-key. Please register HERE to obtain a key.
Versions and Revisions
Following the IATA NDC standards you will see the implementation of primarily 17.2 NDC IATA Schema , Revisions will be highlighted and we encourage all developers to migrate and use the latest Revision.
XSD Schema
You can obtain the XSD schema for the British Airways NDC 17.2 API in the File Assets Library depending on your chosen development environment, we recommend to create a object interface using these specifications. You can find here and example in C#.
Example in the C#/Microsoft Environment:
- Create a folder within your environment
- Download the
XSD files
and place them in the created folder. (Step 1.1)
Make sure your download contains the edist_wrapper file which is contained XSD files
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Using the XSD.exe tool (IDE Tool) define your NameSpace and list the xsd file with:
c:\xsd dist_wrapper.xsd /c /l:csharp /n[>namespace> name]
so that it generates the c# classes based on the schema that is provided.
- Import this into your solution
- This is an example of the C# 17.2 ServiceAdapter namespace: ndc172_Adapter.cs
UTF-8 Encoding
Please use UTF-8 encoding in your requests and response code
Authentication
The http header should include your API Client Key and SoapAction header to allow access to the API, in your HTTP connector pass these headers, for example:
// Set type to POST
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/xml";
request.Headers.Add("Client-Key", clientkey); // add client key header mashery key
request.Headers.Add("SOAPACTION", operation); // add the SOAPAction id to http header
request.Proxy = null;
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate");
request.KeepAlive = false;
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data.ToString());
