Use the full-featured transactions provided in the Universal API Air Service and the Universal Record Service to build your air application:

• Customize transactions to send minimal amounts of data.
• Display responses in your application in a variety of ways, only limited by your imagination.
• Use the Air Service transactions to search for flights (fares and availability) and request pricing.
• Use the Air Reservation transaction in the Universal Record (UR) Service to book flights and other transactions in the UR Service to modify, retrieve, and cancel bookings.

Airlines use the Travelport Merchandising Suite to upload rich content and branded images with detailed descriptions and apply them to fare families and ancillary/optional data. You can use the content, which is returned in responses from transactions in the Air Service, to transform the visual quality of the content that you deliver in your application.

• Offer a richer customer experience with better descriptions and visuals.
• Give your customers the option to upgrade their chosen fare (e.g., economy) to a fare that offers more (e.g., economy plus with extra leg room).
• Implementation is pure front-end development to display data returned by Universal API.
• No extra provisioning is needed.

• Branded fares availability

Air merchandising web services give you access to optional services (or ancillaries), which allow airlines and travel providers to sell additional products such as seats and bags.

• Give your customers the option to add optional services to their booking.
• Implement functionality to allow your customers to search for and book optional services for new or existing air bookings.

• Documentation
• Ancillaries availability

Access Air API-connected carriers, including low cost carriers (LCCs) to display more content in your flight search results.

• Maintain one connection with Universal API to access multiple Air API-connected carriers, including LCC data, in a standardized, end-to-end workflow.
• Air API-connected carriers always come in through the Airline Content Hub (ACH), and may also file in a Travelport System (e.g., Travelport Galileo).
• Some carriers may offer a hybrid approach, partially through a Travelport System and partially through the Airline Content Hub for ancillary content, which is aggregated and returned alongside other content from the system.
• Each Air API-connected carrier is unique. Travelport standardizes functionality, but there can be implementation exceptions based on the carrier's capabilities.

• Air API-connected carriers

Use the full-featured transactions provided in the Universal API Vehicle Service and the Universal Record Service to build car search and booking into your travel application:

Use the full-featured transactions provided in the Universal API Hotel Service and the Universal Record Service to build hotel search and booking into your travel application:

Use the Rail Service and the Universal Record Service to build your online or mobile rail application.

Consume a standardized, end-to-end workflow to access Rail API-connected carriers and take advantage of functionality offered by each carrier.

• Maintain one API connection to Universal API instead of multiple direct API connections with a variety of carriers.
• Use the Travelport portal to see available content and quickly enable new carrier content for your application.
• Rail content is available through the Rail Content Hub (RCH) or a Travelport System (e.g., Travelport Galileo), based on each Rail carrier's agreement.
• Content may be aggregated and returned alongside content from platforms and other content hubs depending on the carrier's distribution model.
• You can use a workflow to return only rail content.
• Each Rail API-connected carrier is unique. Travelport standardizes functionality, but there can be implementation exceptions based on the carrier's capabilities.

• Rail API-connected carriers

The Universal API shared Uprofile service lets you apply pre-existing data to a journey. Using Universal API's profile services allows you to ensure your new and repeat customers have their preferences saved, to make creating future bookings a hassle-free experience.

The Universal API Universal Record Service provides the ability to book Air, Hotel, Rail, and Vehicle trips.