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Articles tagged “ndc”

Online Travel

Air France-KLM and Amadeus Sign Landmark Distribution Deal

For years, airlines, travel agencies, and their technology partners acknowledged they could adopt more modern ways of selling plane tickets. The sticking point lately has been less technological than commercial. Thursday's deal is a seismic moment serving as a model for how the sector might afford to transition to the future.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Air France-KLM and Amadeus Sign Landmark Distribution Deal

Coronavirus

Airlines, Travel Agencies Ponder How Best to Spend Tech Dollars in These Lean Times

It's ironic that new distribution capabilities got to the cusp of becoming real at the precise moment everyone stopped booking flights.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Airlines, Travel Agencies Ponder How Best to Spend Tech Dollars in These Lean Times
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Airlines

How Travel Agencies Can Maximize Commissions and Boost Profitability in a New Era of Airfare Retailing

Travel agencies can say goodbye to old-school excel spreadsheets and paper agreements for keeping track of airfare sales. Today, digitalization provides a much easier and powerful tool to manage incentive and commission contracts with airlines.

Avian + Skift | 4 years ago

How Travel Agencies Can Maximize Commissions and Boost Profitability in a New Era of Airfare Retailing
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Airlines

How the Airline Industry Can Adopt and Implement New Tech the Right Way

New Distribution Capability (NDC) standards will help facilitate greater personalization and easier distribution of all elements of the ticket sale. However, it isn’t a catch-all solution for all of the airline industry’s retailing challenges. Recognizing that is key to implementing NDC standards the right way.

Sabre + Skift | 4 years ago

How the Airline Industry Can Adopt and Implement New Tech the Right Way
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Business Travel

New Report: 10 Business Travel Trends for 2020

What’s in store for the business travel sector in 2020? Our newest trend report, created in partnership with corporate travel management leader TripActions, offers a prediction on the 10 trends that will have the biggest impact on business travel in the year ahead.

Navan + Skift | 4 years ago

New Report: 10 Business Travel Trends for 2020

Business Travel

Charting the Path to Easier Booking for Business Travelers: Amadeus Exec Explains

New distribution technology has a lot of potential to improve booking for business travelers, but first airlines are going to have to make some compromises.

Isaac Carey, Skift | 5 years ago

Charting the Path to Easier Booking for Business Travelers: Amadeus Exec Explains
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Airlines

Scalability is Key to Driving Adoption of New Distribution Capability Standards

When it comes to implementing and adopting the New Distribution Capability standards for airline retailing, there needs to be a strong focus on enabling scalability, across the entire retailing, distribution, and fulfillment process.

Sabre + Skift | 5 years ago

Scalability is Key to Driving Adoption of New Distribution Capability Standards

Business Travel

A Consolidated Biz Travel Market Could Mean More Personalized Booking

Watching how adoption of new distribution technology plays out in this early stage can give us a look into what to expect in the future. Especially if direct distribution ever moves into other areas of travel booking, like hotels.

Isaac Carey, Skift | 5 years ago

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Airlines

How Travel Agencies Should Think About New Airline Distribution Tech

Travel agencies can benefit substantially from the level of personalization that NDC offers, but they have to develop new technological capabilities to realize those benefits.

Travelport + Skift | 5 years ago

How Travel Agencies Should Think About New Airline Distribution Tech

Online Travel

Amadeus Begins Powering Next-Gen Airline Selling Via Online Agencies

Online travel agencies have been late to the airline sector push to sell airfares and other products in more modern ways. Travix has reached a milestone, though, with the help of tech firm Amadeus, and its story suggests the outline of future trends.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Amadeus Begins Powering Next-Gen Airline Selling Via Online Agencies