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Captures for Ticket Purchases

This section describes how to capture an airline payment for ticket purchases.
Captures for ticket purchases must be made separately from captures for ancillary purchases. For more information about how to capture an ancillary purchase, see Captures for Ancillary Purchases.

Travel Legs

You can use travel leg fields for trips that have multiple legs. For more information on how to use travel leg fields, see Airline Data.

Leg Limitations

Visa Platform Connect
 limits the maximum number of legs for each trip based on card type. This table describes the maximum number of legs for each trip based on card type.
Visa Platform Connect
 Leg Limitations
Supported Card Types
Maximum Number of Trip Legs
American Express
4
Discover
4
Mastercard
4
Visa
4

Endpoint

Set the
ccCaptureService_run
 field to
true
.
Send the request to
https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor
.

Required Fields for Capturing an Airline Payment

Include these required fields to capture an airline payment for ticket purchases.

Card-Specific Field to Capture an Airline Payment

This section includes card-specific information.

Mastercard

Use this card-specific field in addition to the required fields when capturing an authorization with a Mastercard.
airlineData_ticketIssuerCode

Optional Fields for Capturing an Airline Payment

You can use these optional fields to include additional information when capturing an airline payment.
airlineData_carrierName
airlineData_clearingCount
airlineData_clearingSequence
airlineData_creditReasonIndicator
For a list of possible values, see Airline Document Type Codes.
airlineData_electronicTicket
airlineData_numberOfPassengers
airlineData_purchaseType
airlineData_reservationSystem
airlineData_ticketIssuerCity
airlineData_ticketIssuerCode
airlineData_ticketNumber
airlineData_ticketRestrictionText
airlineData_totalClearingAmount

Simple Order Example: Capturing an Airline Payment

Request
<requestMessage>
    <merchantID>World Wide Travel</merchantID>
    <merchantReferenceCode>R98TV09EN200W</merchantReferenceCode>
        <purchaseTotals> 
            <currency>USD</currency>
            <grandTotalAmount>204.78</grandTotalAmount>
        </purchaseTotals>
    <ccCaptureService run="true">
        <authRequestID>0839543530000172034078</authRequestID>
        <industryDatatype>airline</industryDatatype>
    </ccCaptureService>
    <airlineData>
        <agentCode>98222147</agentCode>
        <agentName>Cyber Vacations</agentName>
        <ticketNumber>02721187251</ticketNumber>
        <restrictedTicketIndicator>0</restrictedTicketIndicator>
        <passengerName>Johnny Smith</passengerName>
        <leg id="0">
            <carrierCode>AA</carrierCode>
            <originatingAirportCode>SJC</originatingAirportCode>
            <departureDate>121511</departureDate>
            <destination>SEA</destination>
            <fareBasis>HL7WNR</fareBasis>
            <couponNumber>1</couponNumber>
            <departureTime>0931</departureTime>
            <departureTimeSegment>A</departureTimeSegment>
            <arrivalTime>1131</arrivalTime>
            <arrivalTimeSegment>A</arrivalTimeSegment>
        </leg>
        <leg id="1">
            <carrierCode>AA</carrierCode>
            <originatingAirportCode>SEA</originatingAirportCode>
            <departureDate>122011</departureDate>
            <destination>SJC</destination>
            <fareBasis>HL7WNR</fareBasis>
            <couponNumber>2</couponNumber>
            <departureTime>1625</departureTime>
            <departureTimeSegment>P</departureTimeSegment>
            <arrivalTime>1837</arrivalTime>
            <arrivalTimeSegment>P</arrivalTimeSegment>
        </leg>
    </airlineData>
</requestMessage>
Response to a Successful Request
<c:replyMessage>
    <c:merchantReferenceCode>R98TV09EN200W</c:merchantReferenceCode>
    <c:requestID>0305782650000167905080</c:requestID>
    <c:decision>ACCEPT</c:decision>
    <c:reasonCode>100</c:reasonCode>
    <c:purchaseTotals>
        <c:currency>USD</c:currency>
    </c:purchaseTotals>
    <c:ccCaptureReply>
        <c:reasonCode>100</c:reasonCode>
        <c:amount>204.78</c:amount>
        <c:reconciliationID>1094820975023470</c:reconciliationID>
        <c:enhancedDataEnabled>y</c:enhancedDataEnabled>
    </c:ccCaptureReply>
</replyMessage>