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 24: Is the future online or offline in business travel?
BTN Europe Week in Review
35 minutes
4 years ago
Episode 24: Is the future online or offline in business travel?
The Covid crisis has brought the question of how your bookings should be serviced under greater scrutiny. Regularly changing regulations and border closures now mean that many bookings now require some hand-holding in a way they did not before. Recent years have seen many corporates shift their programme from offline to online in order to drive savings but has that now been reversed? The rise of online travel management platforms has also led corporates to question whether there should be a g...
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...
