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 21: Who's buying whom? TMC consolidation gathers pace
BTN Europe Week in Review
51 minutes
4 years ago
Episode 21: Who's buying whom? TMC consolidation gathers pace
The Covid pandemic has caused a crisis in the TMC sector. The decimation of business travel and the lack of any real signs of when things will return to some form of normality has meant that many TMCs have failed – companies like Horncastle Executive with long proud histories went to the wall. Ever since the start of the pandemic it has seemed inevitable that there would be a wave of consolidation as owners and investors wanted to cash out of an industry that may take years to recover and, in...
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...
