With airline revenues decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it would seem that investment in rolling out IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) has come to a standstill. A Sabre executive recently said that "the vast majority of airlines have paused or completely stopped their NDC activity". Certainly, there has seemed to be little public activity around NDC. But is that really the case? Has Covid derailed NDC or has it spurred airlines and intermediaries into working har...
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With airline revenues decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it would seem that investment in rolling out IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) has come to a standstill. A Sabre executive recently said that "the vast majority of airlines have paused or completely stopped their NDC activity". Certainly, there has seemed to be little public activity around NDC. But is that really the case? Has Covid derailed NDC or has it spurred airlines and intermediaries into working har...
Episode 20: What types of business travel will survive?
BTN Europe Week in Review
53 minutes
4 years ago
Episode 20: What types of business travel will survive?
Bill Gates has said that 50 per cent of business travel would go following the pandemic, but he would say that, wouldn't he? His company Microsoft has a very powerful alternative to business travel in teams, after all. Yet many companies have used the virtual standstill of business travel due to Covid to take stock of what parts of business travel are essential. You could argue that many businesses have survived well enough without travelling at all. Companies are now having to focus more cl...
BTN Europe Week in Review
With airline revenues decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it would seem that investment in rolling out IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) has come to a standstill. A Sabre executive recently said that "the vast majority of airlines have paused or completely stopped their NDC activity". Certainly, there has seemed to be little public activity around NDC. But is that really the case? Has Covid derailed NDC or has it spurred airlines and intermediaries into working har...
