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
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
Africa has real OTAs. What it does not have is the infrastructure to let them win. That distinction matters more than most industry observers acknowledge. Wakanow operates in 11 countries,
When South African Airways announced it would accept Bitcoin for flight bookings in early 2026, the headlines followed a predictable path. First-mover in Africa. Crypto goes mainstream. Digital assets meet
RateGain Travel Technologies has added Razorpay as a Platinum Partner for RG Pay, its unified payments platform for travel and hospitality brands, bringing India’s dominant payment rails directly into its
The Dubai-based aggregator has expanded its Iris platform to cover 60+ NDC and low-cost airlines alongside all four major GDS providers. The pitch to travel sellers is simple: one workflow
HBX Group has completed the full acquisition of PerfectStay, bringing the Paris-based travel technology company fully into its business after initially taking a minority stake in 2024. On paper, the
As the airline industry continues to scale NDC, one issue refuses to go away: fragmentation. Multiple schema versions, inconsistent implementations, and ongoing upgrade cycles have turned what was meant to
The Vice President of Airline Distribution EMEA at Sabre on why the industry has moved beyond experimentation and what it will take to finish the job. The rhetoric around NDC
Travel technology provider RateGain Travel Technologies has announced the launch of RG Pay, a new embedded financial technology platform designed to strengthen payment infrastructure across the global travel and hospitality
