Sabre web-services DepartureWindow format.

Question

Do you know what's the format of the DepartureWindow parameter for sabre web-services' OTA_AirLowFareSearch call? Whatever I pass, it shows me an error.

This is the entire documentation for those parameters (I kid you not):

<!--"DepartureDateTime" represents the date and time of departure.-->
<DepartureDateTime>2004-11-22T15:00:00</DepartureDateTime>
<!--"DepartureWindow" represents a window of time to search prior and post departure.-->
<!--Example: JR.DFW/S-OYLAS22NOV1500‡ZRD09001700-->
<DepartureWindow>09001700</DepartureWindow>

I've already tryied passing the number of seconds since DepartureDateTime and a unix timestamp without success. The error message it's:

Error response received. The error was: INVALID TIME WINDOW IN  Z FIELDS

Thanks

Answer 1

You must specify time within window in DepartureDateTime

 <ns1:DepartureDateTime>2009-01-03T15:00:00</ns1:DepartureDateTime>
 <ns1:DepartureWindow>11001559</ns1:DepartureWindow>

works fine for me

Answer 2

also, you can use OriginDestinationInformation.TPA_Extensions.AlternateTime instead