Airlines have big plans for new distribution capabilities. Whether and when they become reality in corporate travel remain open questions. At the moment, it's looking like a huge challenge.

British Airways officials said they anticipated a "large chunk" of travel agencies would transition to NDC channels this year. Air France-KLM's roadmap calls for new products to be made available to TMCs using NDC beginning in the second half of this year — after its surcharge takes effect April 1. American Airlines last year announced . . .

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Jay Campbell

Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.