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entropy Apr 26, 2013 2:29 pm


The technical reason why you can't do this is that UA's reservations system enforces constraints for a multi-passenger PNR which require that every passenger must have identical flight numbers and fare codes....
All res systems have this 'feature'. It makes a lot of sense too. You introduce a lot of oddities if you have people flying different routes, etc. The only limitation where it makes less sense is the uniformity in booking codes, there should be a solution to that...

mherdeg Apr 26, 2013 5:25 pm


Originally Posted by entropy (Post 20658034)
All res systems have this 'feature'. It makes a lot of sense too. You introduce a lot of oddities if you have people flying different routes, etc. The only limitation where it makes less sense is the uniformity in booking codes, there should be a solution to that...

I wonder what the spec is here. Is this spec for a "PNRGOV message" relevant?

http://www.wcoomd.org/en/topics/faci...n%20Guide.ashx

If I read pages 8 & 9 correctly, the spec allows per-passenger fare information to be stored within a single PNRGOV message, just as it allows per-passenger notes (Other Special Information), ticket numbers, and method of payment information.

(This is just the spec for a PNR as given to governments, though, not the base spec for a PNR — it may be that the airline-to-airline PNR is required to store fare class information in the bits of the header that include the flight number that must be the same for every passenger.)


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