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1 CD-ROM EnclosedEffective 1 June 2006 31 May 2007 Reservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP)Edition30th4129600-Airimp 4/5/2006 4:50 PM Page 1 Reservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP)Effective 1 June 2006 31 May 2007 International Air Transport AssociationMontreal GenevaEdition30thCD-ROM Enclosed4129600-Airimp 4/10/2006 10:08 AM Page 1 Reservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP)Ref. No: 9098-30 ISBN 92-9195-774-7 2006 International Air Transport Association. All rights information contained in thispublication is subject to constant review in the lightof changing government requirements and regula-tions. No subscriber or other reader should act onthe basis of any such information without referringto applicable laws and regulations and/or withouttaking appropriate professional advice.

2 Althoughevery effort has been made to ensure accuracy, theInternational Air Transport Association shall not beheld responsible for any loss or damage caused byerrors, omissions, misprints or misinterpretation ofthe contents hereof. Furthermore, the InternationalAir Transport Association expressly disclaims anyand all liability to any person or entity, whether a pur-chaser of this publication or not, in respect of any-thing done or omitted, and the consequences ofanything done or omitted, by any such person orentity in reliance on the contents of this publication. International Air Transport Association. All RightsReserved. No part of this publication may be repro-duced, recast, reformatted or transmitted in any formby any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying, recording or any information storageand retrieval system, without the prior written per-mission from:Senior Vice PresidentMarketing and Commercial ServicesInternational Air Transport Association800 Place Box 113 Montreal, QuebecCANADA H4Z 1M14129600-Airimp 4/10/2006 10:08 AM Page 2cTABLE OF 1 GENERAL and Policy.

3 For Booking a Member s Space .. for Cancelling All of Another Member s Space .. for Itinerary Changing .. Bookings .. Change Action ..7 Chapter 2 STANDARD MESSAGE COMPOSITION Rules .. Element .. Reference Element .. Identifier Element .. Locator Element .. Element .. Element .. Element .. Element .. Auxiliary Service Element .. Supplementary Element .. Prereserved Seat Selection and Boarding Pass Notification .. End of Text Element .. 64 Chapter 3 RULES AND .. or Request Messages .. Messages .. and Change of Itinerary Messages .. Party .. Changing Name and/or Number of Passengers (Option 1) .. Changing Name and/or Number of Passengers (Option 2) .. Identifiers .. Information.

4 Rules for Sending a Request for Clarification of Rejection of a Member s Message .. Passport Information (as bilaterally agreed) .. Form of Identification Information (as bilaterally agreed) .. Authorise PNR for Ticketing (as bilaterally agreed) .. Mandatory Fare Quote and Enforced Ticket Time Limit Time Limit Auto Cancel (for Exemption) Advanced Passenger Information API (bilateral agreement only).. Electronic Payment Authorisation (as bilaterally agreed) .. Automated Block Space (for bilaterally use only).. Infant Information .. Child Information .. Irregular Operations Messages (IRP) .. 176 Chapter 4 AVAILABILITY STATUS Rules .. and Sequence of Segment Status Messages .. and Sequence of First Closing Messages .. Availability Status Codes.

5 Availability Status Messages (Bilateral Agreement Alternative 1) .. Availability Status Messages (Bilateral Agreement Alternative 2) .. Numeric Availability Status Messages (Bilateral Agreement Alternative 3) .. Query Availability Status Messages (bilateral agreement only) .. Availability Data Messagesty Status Messages .. 192cReservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP)PageChapter 5 PREPAID TICKET ADVICE of Prepaid Ticket Advice Message (PTA) .. of Acknowledgement .. of Message Involving Partial Refund or Over Collection .. of Message Involving Full Refund .. of Message Requesting Further Information/Action .. of Message Supplying Supplementary Information or Reply to Requestfor Further Information/Action .. of Message Sending an Additional Collection PTA.

6 PTA Points .. 214 Chapter 6 SCHEDULE EXCHANGE DATA 217 Chapter 7 CODES AND Reservations Codes and Abbreviations (Coding) .. Reservations Codes and Abbreviations (Decoding) .. 233 Chapter 8 RECOMMENDED EXCEPTIONAL MESSAGE .. Message (bilateral agreement only) .. Transfer of PNR Messages (Push PNR) (bilateral agreement only) .. PNR Messages (bilateral agreement only).. Message Option 1 (bilateral agreement only) .. Message Option 2 (bilateral agreement only) .. Message Option 3 (bilateral agreement only) .. of PNR Image Messages (bilateral agreement only) .. Message (bilateral agreement only) .. Report and Reply for Passive Segments (bilateral agreement only).. Cancellation Advisory of a Passive Segment (bilateral agreement only) .. Ticket Number/TCN Transmission for Passive Segments (bilateral agreement only).

7 Code Sharing Segments .. Miscellaneous Message Elements (bilateral agreement only) .. Married Segments (bilateral agreement only) .. Request for Availability Status Message (bilateral agreement only) .. Name Change Made by Member (non-group) .. Divide Made by Member .. Divide with Name Change and Modification of Itinerary .. Coding .. Decoding .. 332 Chapter 9 ELECTRONIC TICKETING SUPPORT Ticketing Type B Teletype System Cancel Message .. 337 Appendix A Airline Designators (Coding).. 339 Appendix B Airline Designators (Decoding).. 403 Appendix C Car Rental and Hotel Codes plus CRS Teletype 411 Appendix D ISO Country Codes and IATA Currency Codes & Ticket Codes for Taxes,Fees, Charges (Coding).. 413 Appendix E States and 450 Appendix F 452 Appendix G Multiple Time Zone 453 Appendix H Three-Letter City/Airport Codes (Coding).

8 455 Appendix I Three-Letter City/Airport Codes (Decoding).. 587 Interactive 601 IATA Strategic SP 1cPREFACEJThis 30th Edition of the ATA/IATA Reservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP) becomeseffective on 1 June 2006 and replaces the 29th has been developed by the Member airlines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) andthe Air Transport Association of America (ATA) for the purpose of establishing standard methods of communicat-ing with each other when making interline reservations. These procedures apply whether mechanical orcomputerised reservations systems are used and ensure uniformity, accuracy and 30th Edition of the ATA/IATA Reservations Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP) containsa number of amendments and standards involving three-letter airline designators have been specially highlighted using a greybackground as you will notice in various parts of this of Changes:dChild information to be transmitted as SSR using code CHLD from 1 June 2007.

9 The procedures for usingcode CHD in an OSI will be phased out no later than 31 May 2008 to allow for a transition period( and );dInfant occupying or not occupying a seat updated procedures(see (f), (i) and );dPassport information procedures to be discontinued as of 31 December 2006(see );dAdvance Passenger Information (API) to be mandatory(see );dSeat number standards revised to accommodate large aircraft such as the Airbus A380(see andexamples in );dForm of Identification (FOID) rules updated to allow for a number in party(see );dIrregular operations (IROPS) procedures established to accommodate electronic tickets(see );dEnhanced Availability Data Messages established to support yield management availability based on originand destination (O&D) as well as by point of sale (POS)(see );dPTA rules updated to mask credit card numbers(see );dNew bilateral procedures established for name changes (for group PNRs, divide or reduce number in party)(see , and ).

10 REFERENCE MARKSThe following symbols placed against an item indicate changes from the previous MeaningZAddition of a new in an item. Cancellation of an comments concerning this Manual should be addressed to the Editor (E-mail: Interline Message Procedures Passenger (AIRIMP)vicCHAPTER 1 GENERAL AND Member airline(s) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and of the Air TransportAssociation of America (ATA) have developed the Standard ATA/IATA Reservations Interline MessageProcedures Passenger (AIRIMP) for the purpose of communicating with each other betweenIATA/ATA Members and Computerised Reservations Systems (CRS) Suppliers, between theapplicable CRS Suppliers and, where permitted, either directly or via a CRS Supplier, with auxiliaryservice operators, when making interline reservations, whether by manual, mechanical orcomputerised reservations systems in order to ensure uniformity, understanding, accuracy interline reservations message procedures between IATA Members, between ATA Members,between IATA/ATA Members and CRS Suppliers, between CRS Suppliers, and between Memberswho are associated with any of the latter shall be in accordance IATA Resolution 766 InterlinePassenger Reservations Procedures and/or the ATA Standard Interline Passenger Procedures (SIPP))