An IATA initiative using XML data exchange technology to enhance how airlines sell and market their products, allowing for more personalized and dynamic offers to customers. Here’s our explainer.
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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…
When responding in late August to competition concerns raised by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority over their proposed combination, leaders at American Express Global Business Travel and CWT must have held their noses. Their redacted response, released last week, showed that to get the deal approved, execs surmised they had to “big up” their…
[CORRECTIONS, Oct. 7: Information originally published below related to servicing capabilities in Biz+ was inaccurate. The article was revised.] Booking Holdings’ Kayak For Business small and medium-sized enterprise travel offering is coming into its own after years in the making. A bevy of features in the new “Biz+” premium level fetches $20 per trip. Biz+…
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…
The concept of “lowest logical fare” has always been open to interpretation. Traditionally, it’s the cheapest, in-policy fare returned when the traveler or travel agent searches in a booking system. But various market dynamics are making it harder to pin down, prompting industry professionals to reconsider it. New challenges in point-of-sale shopping comparisons due to…
[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…
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