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Airsiders Health Compass API

The Airsiders Health Compass API allows developers to easily access information on COVID-19-related restrictions relative to a given journey, providing data specific to airports, airlines, and countries to ensure a smooth flying experience.

Regarding countries, the Health Compass API provides among the following data:

  • Travel restrictions between countries
  • Testing and quarantine requirements for entry
  • Vaccine requirements for entry

Regarding airports, the Health Compass API provides among the following data:

  • Passenger responsibilities: face mask requirements, recommended arrival times, COVID-19 test requirements.
  • COVID-19-related services: testing facilities, locations where passengers can buy personal protective equipment and safety kits.
  • Immigration and quarantine: entry restrictions, vaccine requirements, quarantine requirements (including duration, conditions, and exceptions), and in-airport quarantine facilities.
  • Airport disruptions: terminals or gate restrictions, shopping and restaurant options.
  • Airport safety and disinfection measures: a comprehensive list of protective measures used at the airport.

For example, see the Copenhagen Airport Health Compass page to get a full picture of the airport-specific data available.

Relative to airlines, the API offers among the following information:

  • Passenger responsibilities: face mask requirements, recommended arrival times, COVID-19 test requirements.
  • Airline operations and capacity: details on airline operationality, and if there are special rules in place, e.g., empty middle-seat requirements.
  • Airline and cabin safety: breakdown of measures implemented aboard.
  • Cabin disruptions: any changes in on-board services.
  • Baggage and boarding: baggage and carry-on item limitations, boarding process information.

As an example, check out the Lufthansa Airline Health Compass page.

Airsiders constantly keeps its information up-to-date through automation and regular manual checks.

The Health Compass API and virtual interlining The Health Compass API is part of Airsiders Compass, the developer-first platform for up-to-date airport maps and data. Many of the use cases we support on the Compass platform seek to enhance virtual interlining, by facilitating passenger-managed connections between flights on multiple, nonaffiliated carriers.

Health-related restrictions can and do limit the interlining options available to passengers, depending on their country of citizenship, COVID-19 testing status, and travel schedules. The routes generated through the rest of the Airsiders Compass platform, including the Routing API, contain detailed health-related information for all routes.

Why use an API for health data?#

There are three main reasons why developers and companies might choose to use an API to manage health-related restrictions at airports and on airlines.

First, it can be challenging to not only collect accurate data on health-related restrictions and measures implemented by airports, airlines, and countries worldwide, but also to update it frequently. Using an API allows travel industry stakeholders to access the latest accurate data at all times.

Next, many travel organisations can lose sight of their core value proposition when they set out to build complex processes and automation for collecting health-related data. Using an API for data on health-related restrictions allows companies to refocus on their core features and functionality and save valuable development time, all while taking advantage of API provider’s data and processes.

Lastly, using an API increases travel app developers’ speed to market by making it easier for product teams to quickly integrate functionality for health-related restrictions and measures into their applications. An API that follows industry-standard architecture guidelines can be quickly and painlessly integrated.

How the Airsiders Health Compass API solves the health-related restriction dilemma for travel providers#

Airsiders directly addresses the core needs of travel providers by offering an API that includes up-to-date information, is easy to integrate, and requires no systems maintenance. Below we go over these needs and the Health Compass API’s solution for each.

Up-to-date information Health-related measures and restrictions change frequently, and these changes can impact many routes and itineraries. In this fast-paced context, Airsiders uses automation and repeatable manual checks to ensure that information in the API is always recent.

Simple integration The Airsiders Health Compass API uses an industry-standard REST architecture that’s easy to understand and use with standard HTTP API tooling. Because the API follows widely-adopted conventions, developers can use the libraries and tooling they already have in place to integrate the Health Compass API into their own applications.

Specifically, the Health Compass API:

  • Uses authentication through an API token in an HTTP header.
  • Supports JSON responses.

No maintenance required When using the Health Compass API, you don’t need to take on any additional operational load as the API is fully managed by Airsiders. We take care of keeping information up-to-date, adding new health-related measures as they’re introduced. We also ensure constant improvement of the API experience based on customer feedback.

Health Compass API use cases#

Use cases for the Airsiders Health Compass API include:

  • Pinpointing the flight options for a given search by accounting for health-related restrictions implemented by airports and airlines.
  • Filtering itinerary search results based on health-related measure like COVID-19 testing, citizenship, and/or quarantine requirements.
  • Understanding the passenger effort required to travel on an itinerary that involves quarantine or special entry permissions.

Get your Airsiders Health Compass API key#

To access the Health Compass API you’ll need an API key. If you don’t yet have yours, contact the Airsiders Sales Team.

Base URL: https://cloud.airsiders.com

Routes: /health-data/*

Authentication methods:

  • API key in the x-api-key HTTP header
  • API key in the api-key HTTP parameter.
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