Travelport has implemented a new booking code for non-binary-gender passengers.
Passengers can now choose ‘X’, rather than ‘M’ or ‘F’, when required to provide advance passenger information.
Such information needs to be provided for customers travelling to or in transit to Algeria, Canada, China (except Hong Kong), Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Syria, Thailand, USA and the United Arab Emirates.
The option to choose ‘X’ will need to be matched with the passenger’s passport or identity document. Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand, The Netherlands and Pakistan are among the countries that offer an option other than ‘M’ or ‘F’ on passports – in most cases ‘X’.
Travelport has pledged to make the code available to all 480 airlines on its platform that choose to adopt it.
In TNW dated April 17, it was reported that United Airlines had started to allow passengers to register as Mx, or gender neutral.
