Travelport embraces IATA’s New Distribution Capability

September 1st 2018

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Global distribution platform, Travelport, which was the first GDS to receive IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) Level 3 certification, is conducting pilot programs with several carriers to determine how NDC works for them. Read More »

Travelport senior vice president and managing director air commerce, Derek Sharp, said in a recent company study that Travelport viewed NDC as an extension of Travelport’s business of decades, “ensuring relevant bookable content is served to anyone wanting to book travel by whichever means they have chosen to connect” with us.

Travelport has launched a multi-year agreement with Qantas Airways that includes distribution of the carrier’s content and integration in the national airline’s NDC platform, the Qantas Distribution Platform.

“This is an important development in our roadmap and we are looking forward to working with other major airlines,” said Sharp. “Our plans to offer an application enabling travel agents to book NDC content alongside GDS content are progressing well with products to be rolled out from the latter part of 2018.

“As well as embracing the technology that is available to us today, we know that even greater change is on the way. So whether the discussion is about NDC, automation demands or greater personalization or even artificial intelligence Travelport is planning for tomorrow and building solutions to drive your business forward.”