The AfDB’s $7 billion aviation programme is generating headlines. The distribution implications are generating silence. The African Development Bank’s appointment of Nigeria’s aviation minister, Festus Keyamo, as continental champion for
A public accusation made on a quarterly earnings call has opened the biggest fault line in airline technology in years. For African carriers already navigating modern retailing with constrained resources,
Travelport has announced a strategic collaboration with Cognizant and Anthropic that will deploy Claude across its travel retailing and distribution platforms, in one of the most concrete AI commitments yet
The CEO of Wakanow Nigeria and North Africa on becoming the first OTA in Nigeria to go live with NDC, why West Africa can leapfrog legacy infrastructure, and what international
When Lufthansa introduced a distribution cost surcharge on GDS-booked tickets in September 2015, the reaction from travel agencies and global distribution systems was swift and hostile. But the decision was
Airlink’s Chief Commercial Officer on what it actually took to go live with NDC in Southern Africa, why the hybrid model is here to stay, and what African carriers considering
Accelya has received recognition under IATA’s Airline Retailing Maturity index for capabilities spanning Shop, Order, Pay and Account under the IATA 24.1 standard, a milestone that positions the company among
General Catalyst just led a major bet on a startup that collapsed the gap between travel booking and payments into a single product. The implications stretch well beyond India. For
FLYR’s live deployment with the Saudi carrier is a genuine industry milestone. But the conditions that made it possible are not conditions most airlines share. The airline retailing conversation has
Expedia Group B2B’s AI toolkit announcement is not a product update. It is a structural repositioning and the implications for GDS operators, NDC advocates, and African carriers run deeper than
