As New
Distribution Capability continues to gain traction, airlines, booking tools,
global distribution systems and other companies are announcing new partnerships
to make NDC content available for booking. Airlines also are beginning to adopt
offer-and-order management technologies, another step in business travel’s modern-retailing
journey. This page will provide a running list of those news briefs, with the
most recent at the top. Help keep BTN up to date by sending NDC development news to BTN senior transportation editor Donna M. Airoldi dairoldi@thebtngroup.com

August 2025

• Turkish Airlines has added NDC-native distribution platform AirBooking as a partner to its TKConnect distribution channel, AirBooking announced Aug. 14. AirBooking now is able to display the carrier’s NDC content alongside GDS content, and users can manage bookings and ancillaries on a single platform while avoiding Turkish Airline’s $24 surcharge on EDIFACT bookings. 
• Four European travel technology companies have integrated Travelport’s NDC APIs, with which they will be able to distribute Travelport Plus NDC airline content to their customers, the GDS company announced July 30. The four companies include U.K.-based booking platform Vibe, Travel Technology & Solutions, Czechia-based CEE Travel Systems and NPF, which works with Portuguese travel agency Abreu to connect to Travelport content. 
• Navan has introduced a new content aggregation platform as it focuses on direct connections for NDC airline content, the company announced on its blog July 21. Navan in June also turned off its GDS NDC content, but it continues to source some NDC content via an aggregator partner for about five airlines, the company told BTN Europe. 

July 2025

• AmTrav has added NDC content from Frontier Airlines, giving the travel management company’s clients “the same pricing, itinerary and service options” available through the carrier’s website, according to AmTrav. That includes Frontier’s Business bundle, which includes seating in the first two rows with blocked middle seats for extra room. 
• Travelport now offers Taiwan-based EVA Air’s NDC content in select countries, the technology company announced June 25. Those countries include Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States. 
• All Nippon Airways has expanded its NDC partnership with Trip.com to 11 additional markets, the companies announced June 24. The new markets include Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. 

June 2025

• Turkish Airlines content is back on Sabre after being absent since Sept. 1, 2024, the technology company announced June 23. The new deal includes EDIFACT and NDC content.  
• Airlines
  Reporting Corp. has integrated Philippine Airlines into Direct Connect, ARC’s
  airline distribution platform that enables NDC transactions, ARC announced June
  17.

• Serko has integrated Amadeus’ NDC content and technology into its Zeno
  travel and expense platform, the company announced June 17. Currently, 35
  airlines provide NDC content to the Amadeus Travel Platform. The integration
  would give its TMC and corporate clients an additional means of accessing NDC
  offers in advance of the launch of Qantas’ new distribution
  model next month.
  Serko also is working to add more flexibility to Amadeus NDC bookings,
  including combining NDC and EDIFACT fares in a single booking and the ability
  to cancel NDC bookings before they are ticketed.

May 2025

• Riyadh Air has signed
  its first global distribution agreement with Sabre, the technology company
  announced May 13. The newly established national carrier for Saudi Arabia will
  have Sabre offer traditional EDIFACT content as well as NDC content. Riyadh previously
  selected SabreMosaic for its offer-and-order management capabilities. The
  carrier plans to begin flights by the end of 2025.

• Travelport will offer
  Latam’s NDC content under the terms of an extended agreement, the
  technology company announced May 13. Travelport-connected agencies will be able
  to offer both EDIFACT and NDC content via Travelport Plus. The company did not
  provide a timeline for when the NDC content would go live.

• Finnair
  has created its first “native order” with Amadeus’ Nevio technology as the carrier transitions to an offer-and-order system and away from
  traditional booking methods that use passenger name records and e-tickets, the
  airline announced May 13. 

• Sabre
  has activated NDC content for Air France and KLM in its travel marketplace,
  the travel technology company announced May 6. Sabre-connected agencies now can
  access the carriers’ NDC content via Sabre’s Offers and Orders APIs, the Sabre
  Red 360 agency booking solution, Sabre Red Launchpad, and “a range of
  online booking tools,” according to the company. The integrations will
  allow for continuous pricing. 

• Aeromexico will use
  Sabre’s SabreMosaic offer-and-offer retailing platform under
  an expanded agreement, the travel technology company announced May 5. Sabre did
  not provide an implementation date. The modular SabreMosaic partnership
  includes Air Price IQ and Ancillary IQ solutions “to enhance
  personalization and maximize revenue.” Both products are AI-driven and
  will enable Aeromexico to provide dynamic pricing and personalized ancillary
  offers based on traveler behavior, according to Sabre.

• American Express
  Global Business Travel and Delta Air Lines have expanded their long-term
  agreement to include Delta’s NDC offers in the Amex GBT marketplace when they
  become available, the travel management company announced May 1. The
  agreement also enables travelers to choose from Delta’s range of branded
  fares—including joint venture partners Aeromexico, Latam, Korean Air, Virgin
  Atlantic, Air France and KLM—in one display in Amex GBT’s booking
  channels. Delta has said it is building
  and testing an NDC solution, and officials in March
  said a large-scale launch was unlikely
  to happen in 2025.

April 2025

• ARC has added Royal
  Jordanian Airlines’ NDC content into the ARC Direct Connect program, ARC
  announced April 30. The integration enables the carrier to offer
  “more personalized, efficient services to our valued customers in the U.S.
  market,” Royal Jordanian chief commercial officer Karime Makhlouf said in
  a statement.

• Frontier Airlines has
  partnered with Amadeus to offer the carrier’s NDC content via a GDS for the
  first time, the airline announced April 29. The NDC offers will provide
  “enhanced messaging” and “access to more options and more
  visibility to the best pricing available,” according to Frontier. It also
  will enable “enhanced ancillary services and personalized offers,”
  and a more “streamlined process for making changes to travel
  plans.” 

• Sabre Corp. has activated Iberia’s NDC content in its GDS,
  the travel technology company announced April 29. Sabre-connected agents can
  shop, book and service Iberia NDC offers alongside other Iberia content, such
  as EDIFACT offers, in Sabre’s travel marketplace.

• Amex GBT and Finnair
  have partnered to expand new digital content, including NDC offerings, to
  corporate clients, the travel management company announced April 24. The
  Finnair NDC content will be available to Amex GBT customers without any
  surcharges, according to GBT. Finnair in 2024 pulled back on its previously
  announced plan to exit from EDIFACT completely by year-end 2025, citing that
  the “pace of change” toward modern airline retailing was taking
  longer than anticipated, according to BTN stablemate
  The Beat. 

• Travel and expense
  platform Mesh is partnering to add Sabre’s NDC content to its travel-booking
  capabilities, the companies announced April 15. The midmarket-focused Mesh,
  which currently reports more than 2,000 customers, launched its travel
  management platform in 2023, and Sabre was live with the platform at the time of that launch.
  Adding Sabre’s NDC content will expand options and offer more competitive
  pricing on the platform, according to Mesh.

March 2025

• Sabre has launched
  British Airways’ NDC content in Sabre’s travel marketplace, the technology
  company announced March 18. Sabre-connected travel agencies now can shop,
  book and service BA NDC offers alongside traditional EDIFACT options. Agencies
  can manage BA’s offers and orders through the Sabre Red 360 agency booking solution,
  Sabre Red Launchpad and the Sabre Offer and Order APIs, according to
  Sabre. 

February 2025

• Sabre has launched
  Chilean carrier Latam’s NDC content “in multiple countries,” Sabre announced Feb. 26. Six of Latam’s regionally branded subsidiary
  carriers are included in this agreement, serving Chile, Brazil, Colombia,
  Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, according to the companies. In addition to
  those six countries, 16 other countries were made active by this stage of
  Latam’s NDC content rollout: the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United
  Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland,
  Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand. The companies plan to
  activate additional markets in the coming months. Sabre initially announced
  its Latam NDC agreement in
  October 2023.

• Sabre-connected
  agencies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and “additional
  regions” now can book and service Lufthansa Group’s NDC content, Sabre
  announced Feb. 24. Lufthansa Group includes the brands Lufthansa, Austrian
  Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Swiss Air Dolomiti and Discover Airlines, formerly
  Eurowings Discover. The rollout of Lufthansa Group NDC on Sabre platforms began last year, and the “home
  markets” were the last to activate, according to a Sabre spokesperson. The
  expansion brings Lufthansa Group’s NDC content to Sabre-connected travel
  agencies in more than 100 countries. 

• Air France-KLM has partnered to use Amadeus’ Nevio
  technology to deploy an offer-and-order system, the airline company
  announced Feb. 18. The move to the new technology will be a “multi-year
  effort,” according to Air France-KLM. Nevio will streamline purchases into
  a single order as opposed to having multiple documents, such as a passenger
  name record, an electronic ticket and electronic miscellaneous documents, for
  each booking, according to Air France-KLM.

• Icelandair has selected Amadeus Altea NDC as the carrier’s
  NDC API provider, Amadeus announced Feb. 12, expanding the
  companies’ relationship and enabling the distribution of the full range of the
  airline’s content and fares, including web fares and NDC-based content, to
  Amadeus-connected agents. Implementation is scheduled to start in the first
  quarter of 2025, according to the technology company. 

• Travelport has
  expanded its partnership with Chase Travel Group, which includes Frosch and Valerie Wilson Travel, to provide
  “enriched, multisource content from Travelport, in addition to modern
  retailing tools and merchandising features” through the Travelport Plus
  platform, the technology company announced Feb. 11. The expanded deal will
  enable Chase Travel Group to consume and present content from multiple sources
  and suppliers, including NDC and traditional content from air carriers, hotels
  and car rental companies.

• Travelport is
  providing NDC content to Atriis as part of an expanded agreement with the
  travel platform, the companies announced Feb. 3. Travelport’s NDC offers and
  fares already are available to corporate clients in the Atriis platform, and
  the agreement also includes access to low-cost carrier, hotel and car rental
  content via Travelport. Atriis has previously announced NDC agreements with
  both Amadeus and Sabre.

• Amex GBThas
  agreed to an “enhanced” agreement with Lufthansa Group to
  “expand and accelerate availability” of the airline company’s
  NDC-enabled fares, Amex GBT announced Feb. 3. The two companies have
  already been working together to distribute
  Lufthansa’s NDC content for several years. The new “renewed,
  expanded” agreement is designed to accelerate the availability of
  Lufthansa’s NDC fares and other content on Amex GBT’s proprietary platforms,
  offline booking and third-party booking tools. It will also include access to
  Lufthansa’s NDC-only rates and special promotions across the group’s airlines,
  including Lufthansa, Swiss, Brussels Airlines and Austrian Airlines.

January 2025

• Sabre has started to
  offer Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia’s NDC content in the Sabre marketplace,
  the technology company announced Jan. 14. The new offering enables travel
  agents, travel management companies and corporations to deliver tailored offers
  to their customers, according to Sabre. The technology company added that the
  development also marks the first time Saudia NDC content is available on a
  global distribution system. Amadeus in December
  announced it would begin to carry Saudia’s NDC content “in the
  first quarter of 2025.”

• ARC has implemented Vietnam Airlines’ NDC content into the
  ARC Direct Connect program, ARC announced
  Jan. 14. The partnership helps Vietnam Airlines deliver more personalized
  traveler experiences while giving travel agencies and corporate buyers more
  options to manage transactions, minimize risk and track data through ARC’s
  settlement platform, according to ARC. 
• Travelport
  will offer China Eastern Airlines’ NDC content under the terms of a new
  multi-year agreement, the technology company announced Jan. 8.
  Travelport did not specify a date when the NDC content would become available.
  China Eastern is one of China’s three major carriers and a member of the
  SkyTeam Alliance.