Passing Airline Data

[JF150]

We function almost as a travel agent between card holders and the card issuing bank,and we are required pass airline data to the card issuing bank for our customers.  This information is required in order for the customers to receive "points" on their account. The points are based upon flight legs, # of tickets purchased, etc. When asking the card issuing bank about the information required, they sent us the information below. All of the merchants we have spoken with so far have no idea of what this information is or how to pass it to the bank. If their is anyone that has come across this and could offer some advice it would be greatly appreciated. We know it is possible because airlines other travel agents pass this information.

Financial Detail Addendum (Passenger Transport Detail—Trip

Leg Data)/1644

This message supports ticketing transactions for airline, railway, and travel

agency transactions to provide detailed itinerary information for the cardholder.

Acquirers may submit 1–998 occurrences of this message. Each occurrence

provides detailed itinerary data for one trip leg associated with an airline,

railway, or travel agency transaction.

[TJPride]

Isn't this something you should be asking the airlines about, seeing as how they're the ones supplying the data? We can explain how to pass data in an Authorize.net transaction (for individual legs, probably an itemized transaction with a description for each), but obtaining that data is more an exercise for you to work out. Or something you'd need to pay someone to do for you.

[JF150]

We are not paying for the airline tickets with the customers card. If we were, it would be the airlines responsibility to pass this information to the bank.

We are paying for the tickets directly and then charging the customers card for ticket price. We capture all of the flight information in our sytem, but we can not pass it through. We know the airlines have either a custom integration or may be using a product other than authorize.net, but we are not sure which it is.

We have met with several merchant processors, but none have been able to help with this.

[TJPride]

Problem is, I don't know which information is passed through to the credit card processor, and which information isn't. It would be easy enough to add itemized information to each order, but whether the credit card processor receives that information, I don't know.

Need an Authorize.net mod to weigh in on whether credit card companies received itemized information, and you need to get a sample of a "Financial Detail Addendum" 1644, as it pertains to a flight leg, so you know what format to pass your data in.

[Trevor]

Unfortunately, this is the type of industry specific field that we do not provide support for.  Generally, these type of fields are not supported by gateway services such as Authorize.Net and it is required to integrate directly to a payment processor.