Accelya has released new data at T2RLEngage 2026 with Lufthansa Group as its case study, putting numbers behind a claim the industry has repeated informally: airlines that moved fast on

AI agents are arriving faster than the underlying airline distribution infrastructure in many emerging markets. On 21 September, Sabre argued that the industry may spend the next decade running on

ARC’s August 2026 data shows a pattern worth pausing on. NDC transactions accounted for 21.5% of total ARC-settled transactions in August, while 1,221 travel agencies reported NDC activity, the highest

TUI Airline has become the first carrier to activate GO7’s airline-controlled connection model, known as Orchestrated Virtual Interlining (OVI). The launch lets TUI Airline customers combine two flights into a

We traced the toll booth history of GDS distribution early this week. The short version was simple: NDC was airlines’ attempt to remove the toll booth, and instead multiplied the

Lufthansa Group will pilot a 24 hour price guarantee for corporate bookings made through its NDC channels, running from October 1, 2026 through January 18, 2027. The mechanism extends the

Most explanations of NDC start in the wrong place. They start with the standard itself, with Offer and Order, with XML versus EDIFACT, and they leave the reader with a

Airlines have learned how to monetize the passenger beyond the ticket. According to the 2026 SeatMaps.com Yearbook of Ancillary Revenue, produced by IdeaWorksCompany, total ancillary revenue across 58 airlines tracked