Apidays Paris 2023 - How OpenAPI Supports Airline Industry Standards and Beyond, Yan (Peter) Sun, IATA

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How OpenAPI Supports Airline Industry Standards and Beyond
Yan (Peter) Sun, Open Data Ecosystem Senior Manager, International Air Transport Association (IATA)

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1. How OpenAPI supports airline industry standards and beyond Yan (Peter) Sun (suny@iata.org) Senior Manager, Open Data Ecosystem
2. What is IATA? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for the world’s airlines. Core roles: • Advocacy • Standards setting activities • Aviation products and services 300+ Member Airlines 83% World Air Traffic 120 Countries 2
3. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 47 39 7 21 10 11 13 16 11 9 11 Airlines plan to provide Open APIs APIs along the Pax Journey *Source: IATA Survey 2019 October Open means the API is publicly discoverable by consumers 1. “Open” does NOT mean “Free” 2. Provider has full control over who can access what info
4. Standards Industry WG REST API best practices Open Air Certification Promote APIs compliant with standards Service Open API Hub Dev Portal IATA Open API Vision Digital enabler program to facilitate the airline industry to achieve an Open Data Ecosystem through the development of industry standards and services using open technology standards under industry governance IATA Open API Hub intro video
5. Design First Follow best practices in API Spec OpenAPI Based on OAS 3.0 AIDM Airline Industry Data Model REST API standards and BPs Open API Working Group IATA Open API Hub Design style linter ruleset JSON schema library
6. Benefits • Standards in recent technologies • Agility in a standard-development with collaboration • Interoperability - design best practices in addition to data model • Promote API discoverability and showcase industry adoption AIDM Data model 2. Promote standard API Industry provider 3. Discover Provider API platform Implement UC1: Industry Standard API OpenAPI supports the airline industry standard IATA API design workspace 1. collaborate Technical group Business Group Industry WGs
7. Provider API platform** API Design Tool API Model Design Library Lifecycle Mgnt Design style linter ruleset 2. Apply Open Air certification Benefits • Maximize the value of Open API best practices and AIDM models (Taxonomy, Terminology, etc), which are used beyond the industry standard • Enable discoverability of any trusted industry API in any technology; Further promote APIs following best practices • Certification in levels to facilitate adoption UC2 : Industry Open API Consistency in any airline industry API design beyond standard 1. Publish API Aggregator Airport Other Airline IT Provider Airline & Travel industry AIDM IATA JSON Schema Library **: dashed blocks mean IATA standard supporting tools are available
8. Discover Promote and discover API; Connect with partners Contribute Join the Open API WG on standard setting activities** Quality Follow industry API standards and achieve certification 8 Need more info? ➢ IATA Open API (link) ➢ Open API working group (link) ➢ Open API Hub (link) ➢ hub onboarding (link) ➢ Contact openapi@iata.org Participate in IATA Open API program! **: as the IATA member airline or strategic partner
9. 9 QUESTIONS ?
10. Challenge: connect API providers and consumers Where to find APIs? Can I Try? Can I Trust? How can I get onboard? How developers discover my APIs? How they like my APIs? Who consumes my API? How to follow industry standards? Developer @ Start-Up Airline API manager 10
11. User journey UC1: Discover APIs • Browse APIs by category & program • Search APIs UC2: View API details Public user API Provider API Consumer UC3: Contact Provider UC4: Try an API (if the provider allows) UC5: Feedback • Rate API • Discussion UC6: Publish my API (public or private) UC7: Interact with Consumers UC8: Certify my API to showcase commitment to quality API professionals Obtain access to login Onboard organization
12. Open API Hub - objective The airline industry’s one-stop API portal • All industry parties • APIs from all business domains, using any technology • Fully controlled API visibility and access -public, partner, and private APIs • Showcase industry digital standards and programs Discover APIs Build new trusted partnerships and foster competition Promote traffic to your APIs Connect without compromising Control of your data
13. 3200+ Organizations onboarded 50+ Open APIs 100+ APIs listed API hub adoption (Nov 2023) 12 8 4 9 9 2 2 Customer Experience Retailing Cargo Flight Groud Operations Reference Data Financial processes Environmental Sustainability Open APIs 13 4 8 6 4 Customer Experience Retailing Cargo Flight Ground Operations Reference Data Airline APIs