Airline Data

Airline data processing goes beyond basic payment transactions by allowing you to process specific travel data. This requires you to submit additional information, such as:
  • Carrier
  • Departure Date
  • Destination Airport
  • Purchase Date
  • Originating Airport
  • Ticket Class
  • Trip Legs

Supported Card Types

  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Mastercard
  • Visa

Supported Acquirers

These
Visa Platform Connect
acquirers are supported for airline data processing:
  • Agricultural Bank of China (ABC)
  • Ahli United Bank in Bahrain
  • Arab African International Bank (AAIB)
  • Asia Commercial Bank (ACB)
  • Auckland Savings Bank (ASB)
  • Axis Bank Ltd. of India
  • Bangkok Bank Ltd.
  • Bank Muscat of Oman
  • Bank of Ayudhya (BAY)
  • Bank of China (BOC)
  • Bank of Communications
  • Bank Sinarmas (Omise Ltd.)
  • Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao (BCEL)
  • Barclays Bank Mauritius Ltd.
  • Barclays Bank Botswana
  • Barclays Bank of Ghana Ltd., Barclays Bank of Tanzania Ltd., and Barclays Bank of Uganda Ltd.
  • Barclays Bank of Kenya
  • Barclays Bank of Zambia
  • Barclays Bank Seychelles
  • BC Card Co., Ltd.
  • BLOM Bank
  • Cathay United Bank (CUB)
  • Citibank Hongkong and Macau
  • Citibank Singapore Ltd.
  • Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • CrediMax (Bahrain)
  • CTBC Bank Ltd.
  • FirstRand Bank
  • Global Payments Asia Pacific
  • Habib Bank Ltd. (HBL)
  • HDFC Bank Ltd. of India
  • I&M Bank
  • ICICI of India
  • Korea Exchange Bank (KEB)
  • Mashreq
  • National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD)
  • National Bank of Kuwait (NBK)
  • National Commercial Bank
  • Network International
  • Overseas Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC)
  • Promerica in Honduras and Nicaragua
  • Qatar National Bank (QNB Group)
  • Raiffeisenbank
  • Rosbank
  • Taishin Bank Ltd.
  • United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Singapore and Vietnam
  • United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Thailand
  • Vietcombank
  • VTB24
  • Wing Lung Bank

Requirement

When you are ready to go live with airline data processing, contact
Cybersource
Customer Support to have your account configured to process airline data. If your account is not enabled, and you try to send airline transactions, you will receive an error for invalid data.

Related Information

Cybersource
Airline Data Processing

Cybersource
does not store airline data. Instead, it functions as a pass-through service for the data.
Cybersource
enforces only the minimal level of field validation.
When you request an airline service,
Cybersource
responds with certain fields and values to indicate whether the airline data was processed. The response fields for each service are:
  • Authorization:
    ccAuthReply_enhancedDataEnabled
  • Capture:
    ccCaptureReply_enhancedDataEnabled
  • Credit:
    ccCreditReply_enhancedDataEnabled
The possible values for the response fields are:
  • Y
    : the airline data was included in the request to the processor.
  • N
    : the airline data was not included in the request to the processor.
Cybersource
temporarily disables your account's airline data processing capability and contacts you if your airline data transactions produce batching errors when the information is sent to the processor. If this happens, your request is not rejected, but you receive one of the above listed fields with the
N
value in the response indicating that airline data in the request has been ignored and not sent to the processor.

Airline Travel Legs

This section shows you how to process an airline transaction with travel legs for this processor:
  • Visa Platform Connect

Using Travel Legs

To include travel legs in an airline transaction, include one or more
airline_leg#_
fields, starting with the
airline_leg_0_
fields.
The
<leg id="#">
fields must start at 0, and you must use consecutive numbers for any additional legs.
For example, these three travel legs are valid:
<leg id="0"> <carrierCode>XX</carrierCode> </leg> <leg id="1"> <carrierCode>XZ</carrierCode> </leg> <leg id="2"> <carrierCode>XX</carrier<code> </leg>
If you skip a number,
Cybersource
ignores the legs that follow the skipped number.

Travel Leg Limitations

Some processors limit the amount of travel legs for each trip based on card type. For more information, see the Leg Limitations table in the capture section of the processor you are using.

Airline Data Reference Information

This section contains reference information that is useful when using Airline Data.