Wikidata:Property proposal/Airline Accounting Code

Airline accounting code

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Transportation

   Done: airline accounting code (P5703) (Talk and documentation)

Description	number, referenced by IATA and unique among all the airlines, used to identify the airline in various accounting activities such as ticketing
Represents	airline code (Q741701)
Data type	String
Domain	property
Allowed values	[0-9]{3}
Example 1	Lufthansa (Q9325) → 220
Example 2	Air France (Q131005) → 057
Example 3	British Airways (Q8766) → 125
Source	https://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx
Planned use	Add the accounting codes for the most important airlines
Number of IDs in source	803 (among 1,098 airlines referenced today by IATA)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
See also	IATA airline code (Q11976628), ICAO airline code (Q12364233)

Motivation

The airline accounting code is a number, referenced by IATA and unique among all the airlines, used to identify the airline in various accounting activities such as ticketing. For instance, Lufthansa (LH/DLH) has been assigned 220 as accounting code, and all the flight tickets issued by Lufthansa will start with "220-". The IATA code search page references the accounting code for every airline having one.

It was also discussed on the talk page of the Infobox airline template, and suggested over there to create a property in here (Wikidata).

The addition of that field in the {{Infobox airline}} template has been discussed on the corresponding talk page.

The airline accounting number appears on all the flight tickets and boarding passes emitted by the given airline. Having that number in Wikidata would allow the users and data analysts across the world to retrieve the airline details from a given accounting code.

Discussion

 Support - Useful extension to the ambiguous IATA code Germartin1 (talk) 19:08, 19 August 2018 (UTC) @Germartin1:  Done: airline accounting code (P5703). − Pintoch (talk) 21:25, 22 August 2018 (UTC)