British Airways and Iberia earned IATA NDC Certification NDC@Scale status
LONDON, UK, 2019-Dec-20 — /Travel PR News/ — British Airways and Iberia have today (December 19, 2019) announced that both airlines have achieved the International Air Transport Association (IATA) NDC Certification NDC@Scale status. This is another significant step made by both airlines, demonstrating their commitment to, and continuous investment in, improving and enhancing NDC capabilities for their customers.
NDC Certification NDC@Scale status is the highest certification level that IATA provides to airlines on the NDC standard; a set of criteria that demonstrates that both airlines have the capabilities to drive volumes of NDC transactions, enable enhanced servicing and support customers effectively.
Coinciding with this achievement and an ever-increasing number of NDC connections, with over 4,000 agencies now connected to NDC, British Airways and Iberia continue to enable NDC exclusive content. This includes a further rollout of the airlines’ Long Haul Additional Price Points (LHAPP) propositions, expanding them across a larger number of routes, including North America. This means partners on NDC will enjoy up to three times more price points than via legacy distribution standard. Both airlines intend to complete the expansion to all routes in 2020.
Additionally, Iberia has started to offer its Basic fares only through NDC solutions, on selected domestic routes. British Airways will follow on European routes in Q1 2020.
NDC facilitates access to a richer and more complete inventory from the airlines as well as access to the wider range of services they offer, than was possible through legacy systems. To get these benefits, travel agencies can connect directly to British Airways and Iberia’s NDC APIs, use an increasing number of aggregator solutions or book through the booking portal provided by IAG.
Ian Luck, British Airways’ Head of Distribution, said: “This certification is testament to the work we have put in improving our distribution offering for customers. With exclusive content and a whole extra range of services available through an NDC connection, we’d encourage agents to consider how we can work with them to meet their needs through our NDC offering.”
Cliff Trotta, Iberia’s Head of Commercial Distribution and Planning, said: “Our IATA Level 4 certification last month was all about Servicing. NDC@Scale is way more than our ability to exchange messages. Scalability is key to driving adoption and with this certification label we certify the robustness of our NDC usage, with millions of shopping requests per day, as well as our 24/7 support for agencies that have embarked on this journey to true retailing. It makes sense to invest in NDC and we are committed to move faster on this.”
For more information visit the British Airways and Iberia’s NDC websites: ndc.ba.com, and developer.iairgroup.com/iberia
About British Airways
British Airways is the UK’s largest international airline offering more than 45 million customers a year quality, choice and convenience. Its principal place of business is London, with a significant presence at Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports.
British Airways’ main home at Heathrow is Terminal 5, regularly voted the world’s best airport terminal in international passenger surveys.
Operating one of the most extensive international scheduled airline route networks together with its joint business agreement, codeshare and franchise partners, British Airways flies to more than 200 destinations in almost 80 countries on a fleet of around 300 aircraft. The airline is investing £6.5bn over the next five years in new aircraft, new cabins, new lounges, new food and new technology – including industry-leading WiFi.
British Airways is a founding member of the airline alliance oneworld, which serves some 1,000 destinations across the globe.
About Iberia
Iberia is the main Spanish airline and the leading carrier on routes between Europe and Latin America. It flies to 135 destinations in 47 countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Together with its subsidiary Iberia Express and its franchise partner Iberia Regional/Air Nostrum, it operates about 600 flights each day with a fleet of some 140 aircraft. It offers easy and convenient connections at its hub in T4 in Madrid-Barajas airport.
Since 2014 it ranked among the five most punctual airlines in the world, and the most the world’s most punctual airline in 2016 and 2017 according to FlightGlobal Incorporating FlightStats, while it was awarded its 4th Skytrax star in 2017.
The airline is a member of the oneworld alliance.
For more information, please visit http://grupo.iberia.com
Contact details:
For more information, please contact press.office@ba.com
Source: British Airways
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