A network or platform facilitating transactions for travel service providers through direct connections with airlines, hotels and other suppliers, streamlining the booking process and providing information about availability, prices and related services. Three major providers are Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport.
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The consensus among execs at airlines, travel management companies, global distribution system firms and other tech intermediaries is that NDC should become mainstream this year (if it hasn’t already). Not all buyers are like-minded. Industry metrics reflect a stall in momentum. Many corporate customers remain unconvinced about growing NDC. Some program managers who had enabled…
Amadeus named Decius Valmorbida president of its travel unit in August 2020. A native of Brazil, Valmorbida originally joined Amadeus in 2004 and has been a member of its executive committee since 2017. He spoke on Tuesday with The Company Dime during a live interview on the LinkedIn Audio platform. Among other topics, he responded…
New York — Maureen Brady in August stepped down from her role as chief commercial officer in North America at Corporate Travel Management after five years with the company and more than 30 years at seven other TMCs of various kinds. She’s taking a career break — not using the “R word” yet — and…
AmTrav CEO Jeff Klee has some advice for GDSs looking to maintain their positions as pre-eminent corporate travel tech providers. He suggests they embrace new data formats, expand content aggregation into more corners and make things simpler for users. The story of Kodak is a cautionary tale about a once-great company whose leaders misunderstood its…
[UPDATE, Sept. 25, 2024: Delta and Travelport signed a “multi-year” agreement “including NDC content.”] Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday that it was renewing multi-year, full content participation agreements with the three major global distribution system providers. During a web presentation, Delta leaders also offered some product updates and said they created a New Distribution Capability…
Global distribution system providers are in a “precarious” position thanks to changing economics and roles, according to former Sabre SVP and chief scientist Ben Vinod’s new book, “Mastering The Travel Intermediaries.” Vinod wrote that the adoption of New Distribution Capability means “disintermediation of the GDS is a foregone conclusion,” with the GDS share of the…
On June 20, Spotnana announced it had agreed with Sabre to allow Spotnana’s corporate and travel management company customers to “access NDC content from an expanded set of airlines” while retaining NDC servicing capabilities, including support for self-service cancellations and exchanges. Reiterating its “neutral and unbiased” commitment, Spotnana stated that TMCs could “source NDC content…
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