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
AI agents have become another layer of the travel industry’s security perimeter. A newly disclosed breach involving four accommodation technology providers shows the security question is no longer whether AI
Walk into any airline distribution conversation in Lagos, Nairobi, Riyadh, or Dubai and you will hear NDC, GDS, EDIFACT, and now MCP used almost interchangeably. They are not interchangeable. They
TPConnects and Ink Innovation are aiming to extend IATA’s One Order standard beyond airline retailing and into airport operations, a step that could eventually connect booking, check-in, baggage and disruption
