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Global APIS for travel providers
Global APIS – Travel Providers
Global APIS allows travel providers to capture and validate passenger data early in the booking journey, standardising required information and improving the accuracy of APIS data shared with airline partners.
What is Global APIS?
A passenger data validation and standardisation service for travel providers.
Global APIS embeds structured data capture and real-time validation into the booking journey, ensuring that passport and traveller information meets APIS requirements before it is passed to airline partners – reducing errors, rejections, and the manual correction that follows.
Accurate Passenger Data Collection
Validate passport numbers, expiry dates, and mandatory fields at the point of booking – before errors enter the data chain.
Real-Time Data Validation
Automatically check formats and required fields to prevent input errors and incomplete records at source.
Improved Data Quality for Airlines
Deliver cleaner, compliant passenger data to airline partners, reducing rework and rejection risk on their side.
Standardised Information Capture
Ensure consistent data collection aligned with global APIS requirements across multiple destinations and booking channels.
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How it works
Passenger data captured at booking
Global APIS prompts structured collection of passport and traveller information within your booking flow, including all mandatory fields required for APIS compliance.
Real-time validation at the point of entry
Each record is checked instantly against format and completeness requirements – flagging errors for correction before the booking is confirmed.
Clean data delivered to your airline partners
Manifests are transmitted to the relevant authorities for every leg, with a full audit trail.
Global APIS FAQs
Commonly Asked Questions About Global APIS
Governments require carriers to submit Advance Passenger Information (API), including passport details, before departure to support border security and immigration control.
Global APIS receives passenger data in various formats, validates it against government requirements, and transmits it directly to the relevant authorities.
It is designed for charter operators, VIP flights, ad-hoc services, and general aviation, particularly where a certified DCS or reservation system is not available.
Commercial airlines, charter services, VIP and private aviation, and general aviation. Global APIS is particularly beneficial for carriers whose DCS isn’t certified for specific destinations, or operators flying ad-hoc routes.
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