UC01 - Shop and Order a flight for a single passenger
Description
This use case covers a prime booking flow, i.e. the steps between simple shopping (no a la carte seats or services) and order creation without payment.
Capabilities Demonstrated
Shop for flights
Price a flight offer
Order creation without payment
Preconditions / Assumptions
Airline has already communicated to seller accepted payment methods
Descriptive Flow
Step | Message | State Diagram | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
1RQ | AirShoppingRQ | State 0 -> State 1 | Seller requests flight offers to airline, providing origins, destinations and dates. |
1RS | AirShoppingRS | Airline responds with different flight offers | |
2RQ | OfferPriceRQ | State 2 -> State 3 | Seller requests the selection of Flight Offer, Extra bag and Seat ancillary services |
2RS | OfferPriceRS | Airline responds with a unified priced offer with selected flight service, extra bag and seat ancillary services | |
3RQ | OrderCreateRQ | State 3 -> State 6.1 | Seller requests creation of the order, with the selected priced offer |
3RS | OrderViewRS | Airline responds with the created order |
Post Condition
Order is created, unpaid.
Main message Objects
Shop
The table below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the functions used to illustrate this use case.
Message | Object | Details |
|---|---|---|
AirShoppingRQ | FlightRequestOriginDestinationsCriteria | Send specific Origin and Desitination information for intended dates |
| Pax | Passenger Type code |
AirShoppingRS | Offers | A set of offers |
Price
Message | Object | Details |
|---|---|---|
OfferPriceRQ | PricedOffer | Selected Offer and offeritems to price |
OfferPriceRS | PricedOffer | Return one single pricedOffer with selected offeritems |
Order
Message | Object | Details |
|---|---|---|
OrderCreateRQ | AcceptSelectedQuotedOfferList | Pass the pricedOffer with Flight OfferItem |
OrderViewRS | Order | Order with Orderitem correspoding to selected priced Offeritem |
XML Samples
Sequence | Message |
|---|---|
1RQ | AirshoppingRQ |
1RS | AirShoppingRS |
2RQ | OfferPriceRQ |
2RS | OfferPriceRS |
3RQ | OrderCreateRQ |
3RS | OrderViewRS |
State diagram
This is the full state diagram describing recommended transitions and flows. Transitions and stated involved in the current use case are highlighted in orange.
the current use case are highlighted in orange.
States: S0: initial state, no precondition. S1: received flight offers S2: received a la carte offers (seats, services) for a flight offer. S3: received a priced offer. S4: received a la carte offers (seats, services) for a priced flight offer. S5: payment process state. Contains an actual intermediate state (S5.1) only in case of authentication needed (e.g., 3DS, AMOP, …). No intermediate state else (S5 transitions immediately to S6 in that case). S6: order created. Sub-states S6.1, S6.2 and S6.3 detail the overall order payment status. S7: received a full order cancellation offer. S8: accepted a full order cancellation offer, order is cancelled. S9: received flight re-shop offers (with or without a la carte offers) for an order. S10: received a la carte offers for an order. S11: received quoted offers. S12: received Quoted offers and Ala carte offers for Quoted Offer S13: received repriced offer from the airline Transitions: S0 → S1: shop for flights S1 → S2: shop for seats/services on an offer S1 or S2 → S3: price offer(s) S3 → S6: order creation without payment S3 → S5 → S6: order creation with payment S6 → S7: request full order cancellation offer S7 → S8: accept full order cancellation offer S6 → S9: re-shop for flights S6 → S10: shop for seats/services on an order S6→ S13: reprice existing order resulting in a reprice offer S9 or S10 → S11: quote re-shop offers and/or a la carte offers on an order S11 or S13 → S6: accept a quoted offer on an order, without payment S11 or S13 → S5→ S6: accept a quoted offer on an order with payment S11→ S12: shop for seats/services on a quoted re-shop offer S12→ S11: quote quoted offers and/or a la carte offers on an order
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