New data from ARC and Accelya shows NDC has moved from pilot to production across agency and managed travel, with SAP Concur recording its millionth NDC booking in Q1 2026.
The Chief Marketing Officer of South Africa’s leading low-cost carrier on distribution discipline, the TPConnects integration, and why NDC is a tool not a target. In a regional aviation market
The standard is thirteen years old. The business case is proven. The technology is available. The bottleneck is none of these things. Slow NDC adoption in Africa is routinely explained
Airlines won the distribution war. The settlement infrastructure wasn’t ready for what comes next. The First Battle For the better part of a decade, the airline industry’s defining strategic battle
The airline distribution industry has a habit of fighting the last war. For years, the central conflict was between airlines and GDSs: who controls the offer, who captures the margin,
The property management system is no longer just where hotels run their operations. It is where they compete. Hotel distribution has always had a structural problem that the industry preferred
The industry is celebrating a recovery it didn’t earn. Beneath the record passenger numbers, a structural fragility has quietly deepened and almost no one is talking about it. The illusion
Outpayce has integrated Riskified’s fraud prevention suite into its travel payments platform. The announcement is straightforward. The commercial model underneath it is not. Airline payments have always been an uncomfortable
The Dubai-based aggregator has layered a Model Context Protocol interface onto its Iris platform, giving AI systems machine-readable access to more than 60 airlines through a single protocol. The technical
The continent is not a single NDC story. Three markets have confirmed go-lives, real commercial momentum, and structural reasons to keep moving forward. The rest of Africa is watching and
