U.S. travel agency air ticket sales hit $58.8 billion in the first half of 2026, a new record. But the more consequential number buried in the data is 21.6 percent.

In May, Sabre CEO Kurt Ekert stood in front of investors on the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call and said something GDS executives almost never say about each other on

Building airline retailing infrastructure has long been one of the highest technical barriers in travel technology. Atlas has just lowered that barrier. The company announced this month that it is

Every few weeks another airline announces that its NDC content is now “live”. The press release follows a familiar script: a new distribution partnership, a market count, a quote about

Travelport and Turkish Airlines have signed a new multi-year distribution agreement that, for the first time, brings New Distribution Capability into the scope of their partnership. The deal extends a

Carriers across Africa and the Middle East have spent the better part of two years racing to catch up on NDC: adopting the standard, retiring EDIFACT dependencies, rebuilding agency relationships

While much of the airline industry continues operating on older versions of IATA’s New Distribution Capability, EgyptAir has taken a notable step forward. The airline has gone live with IATA’s

South African low-cost carrier LIFT is set to go live within weeks on GO7’s Orchestrated Virtual Interlining (OVI) solution, becoming one of the first airlines worldwide to adopt the model.

Travelport has spent the past year building a case that AI agents cannot safely book a flight without a deterministic system underneath them. On 1 July, that case moved from

British Airways is moving its NDC distribution off the in-house schema it has run for years and onto Amadeus Altéa NDC, built on the IATA 21.3 standard. The airline announced