Airlines

In What is XML, we presented a simple description of XML, the language that will become the framework for IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC). So what is NDC and why it is so desperately needed now? NDC is a collaborative initiative created by the global airline association IATA to bring airline distribution technology up to date and…

In a article on Airline Information’s Ancillary blog (a great place for an insightful read on the topical challenges airlines face in growing ancillary revenues), the writer, Ritesh Gupta, points to the pitfalls of airlines going it alone when adopting API technologies to enable their merchandising e-commerce platforms. In the article Jim Davidson of Farelogix points out that…