Ask who is winning GDS in Africa and the industry gives you one answer: Amadeus, because it is “stronger in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.” That line appears in

Three months after Sabre first accused Amadeus of holding a “dominant monopoly position,” the company used its Q2 2026 earnings call to restate the complaint in more specific terms, but

Every airline distribution team evaluating NDC aggregators eventually has the same thought. What if there were just one. One contract, one integration, one commercial relationship covering every agency, every OTA,

At UATP’s Airline Distribution 2026 conference this year, United’s managing director of digital sales told the room that the carrier now sells about seventy percent of its tickets direct, with

Accelya just put a number on something buyers have been guessing at for years: how ready their own programme actually is for modern airline retailing. The company unveiled the Modern

Travelport and EGYPTAIR have signed a long-term distribution agreement covering both EDIFACT and NDC content. Travelport-connected agencies will keep their existing access to EGYPTAIR through established EDIFACT channels, while gaining

For almost a decade, the airline industry has treated NDC and direct distribution as if they were the same strategy. They never were. NDC became shorthand for a bigger idea,

Lufthansa Group has quietly built something the rest of the industry has not: a formal, points-based grading system for its NDC aggregator partners, with the results made public. The move