Provide the whole route to have connection fares

[NicolasAU35]

Hello,

For connection fares, what is the OSDM recommendation?
Is the Distributor should send all the route, to have this type of fare from the Product provider?

Best regards,
Nicolas

[jspetrak]

Distributor can either pre-load fares using "OSDM Offline" and search in that fare data. Or can query fares online based on trip search criteria/trip specification from the provider. That way it obtains only fares relevant for the connection. It may still need to maintain some local logic when there is need to split query among 2..N providers for multi-country or multi-carrier trips.

In both cases, distributor obtains those fares and builds offers from them.

[CGantert345]

Sending the complete route is important to apply the VAT rules properly. In some countries the VAT is zero for international journeys. The pricing with zero VAT will be applied only if the route is international.

[ralfbayer-db]

The fact that the trip is international can be specified by the TripSpecification.isPartOfInternationalTrip flag, so VAT can be properly calculated even if only the requested part of the trip is given.

OfferTags can further be used to identify "compatible" offers for different parts of a trip.

It may also be difficult for a provider to understand the full trip in case of local station codes (e.g. trip from a bus station in Frankfurt (which doesn't have a UIC code) to a bus station in Stockholm (which doesn't have one either).