OPERA Expedia Profile

The application parameter ADS_IATA in the GDS group can be set to the IATA number or CorpID that is established on the Expedia profile. If this parameter is not filled in, then the interface will search the name table looking for name_code of EXPEDIA. If the site is specifying an IATA or CorpID of something other than Expedia via the ADS IATA field, the installer should ensure that there are no entries in the name table of name_code = ‘EXPEDIA’. The statement below can be run to remove any duplicate entries:

To attach the Expedia Travel Agent to each reservation and ensure proper routing instructions, a Travel Agent (with routing instructions and an AR account) needs to be created if one does not already exist. The IATA or name_code field must be set to “EXPEDIA”.

If the form will not allow this value to be inserted because the IATA number validation parameter is turned on, then this will need to be inserted via SQL with the below statement, replacing xxx with the appropriate name_id of the Expedia TA profile:

update name set name_code= 'EXPEDIA' where name_id = 'xxx'
update name set name_code = null where name_code = 'EXPEDIA'