Somewhere in the fine print of Expedia Group B2B’s Explore ’26 announcement sat a detail that mattered more than the toolkit headline. Expedia opened its inventory through an MCP server,
Etihad Airways has spent the past four years building a distribution strategy that looks less like a single initiative and more like three separate campaigns run in parallel: an early
There is a version of this story that writes itself as marketing copy. A regional carrier without a single long-haul aircraft in its fleet lands a codeshare into Doha. It
Emirates is not the airline you would expect to worry about distribution. It carries enormous direct demand, a brand that sells itself, and the technology resources to build almost anything
Uganda Airlines has committed roughly $985 million to a ten-aircraft Boeing order. Air Peace, Ethiopian Airlines, and TAAG Angola are all expanding routes and fleets. Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Emirates
NDC FastTrack marked its first anniversary in July with 18 member organizations, up from two founding members at its GBTA Denver launch in July 2025. The current roster, per Accelya’s
The February 2026 strikes on Gulf airports created an immediate operational crisis. Hubs closed. Aircraft were grounded. Thousands of flights were cancelled. Six months later, the deeper problem is still
European carriers have spent the last two years treating the GDS surcharge as a lever, not a line item. Lufthansa Group raised its Distribution Cost Charge twice in five months.
In May 2026, FLYR announced that Riyadh Air had become what it called the first full-service carrier to launch based exclusively on an Offer and Order framework, built on FLYR’s
The 60 day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired on August 16 with no extension agreed, and both sides remain at an impasse over control of the Strait
