Airline data

If your business operates under specific travel-related Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), you can provide enhanced scheme data (ESD) to optimize your interchange rates. Airline data consists of industry-specific details, such as ticket numbers and passenger names.

You get benefits for transactions, depending on the scheme:

• Visa: prevent downgrades to higher commercial standard rates.
• Mastercard: ensure that your transactions qualify for the interchange rates specific to your industry.

Requirements

In addition to the requirements that apply to sending ESD, take into account the following additional limitations for sending airline data.

Eligible MCCs for sending airline data

You can send airline data if you have one of the following MCCs:

For the following MCC, you can send airline data in limited cases:

How it works

In your payment or capture requests, include the airline-specific data fields. The recommended request depends on your capture setting.

• Automatic capture and Delayed automatic capture: in the /payments request, include airline data in the additionalData.airline object.
• Manual capture (Single partial capture and Multiple partial capture): in the /payments/{paymentPspReference}/captures request, include airline data in the enhancedSchemeData.airline object.

Send airline data

1. Include airline data in the payment or capture request.

   • For the /payments request: use the additionalData.airline object.
   • For the /payments/{paymentPspReference}/captures request: use the enhancedSchemeData.airline object.
     The following table lists the airline data fields that are required and optional to provide in your requests, depending on the type of request.

   Payment request fields	Capture request fields	Required
   airline_code	code
   ticket_number	ticket.number
   passenger_name	passengers.firstName and passengers.lastName
   leg[itemNr].carrier_code	legs.carrierCode
   leg[itemNr].class_of_travel	legs.classOfTravel
   leg[itemNr].destination_code	legs.destinationAirportCode
   leg[itemNr].date_of_travel	legs.dateOfTravel
   leg[itemNr].depart_airport	legs.depatureAirportCode
   leg[itemNr].flight_number	legs.flightNumber
   issue_date	ticket.issueDate
   leg[itemNr].stop_over_code	legs.stopOverCode
   leg[itemNr].fare_base_code	legs.fareBasisCode
   leg[itemNr].depart_tax	legs.departureTax
   computerized_reservation_system	computerizedReservationSystem
   travel_agency_name	travelAgency.name
   travel_agency_code	travelAgency.code

   Select the endpoint for the corresponding request example:

Test sending airline data

Use the following test card to make test payments with airline data:

See also

• Cards
• Enhanced scheme data
• Webhooks