Travelport achieves level 4 NDC certification as an aggregator from IATA

Langley, UK, 2020-Feb-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Travelport, the leading technology company serving the global travel industry has achieved level 4 NDC certification as an aggregator from IATA. This certification confirms Travelport is able to provide full offer and order management and servicing of an NDC booking, complementing the current capabilities of voiding tickets and cancellations with new capabilities to modify and exchange tickets as well as processing refunds. This end-to-end booking management capability is a crucial part of the day to day travel management Travelport’s customers rely on their technology partner to provide.

Travelport has been offering NDC content from a small number of partner airlines since October 2018 and has taken a phased approach to its NDC roll out plans in order to build an NDC solution which works for all parts of the interconnected travel industry.

Commenting on the certification, Jason Clarke, Chief Commercial Officer – Travel Partners said: “Delivering NDC content to our customers is a crucial part of Travelport’s multi-source content strategy and this certification is the next step in recognizing our NDC capability. Managing complex itineraries for their travelers, including changes and disruptions, is a core part of the role of our travel agency customers so this functionality is important in bringing NDC to life for the whole industry.”

Travelport is working with a number of IATA NDC Leaderboard airlines on their content distribution strategies in a production environment and with a wide range of travel agencies, online travel agencies and travel management companies to ensure its multi-source content strategy, of which NDC distribution is a part, meets the needs of the whole, global travel industry.

The next meeting of the Travelport NDC Leadership Council will take place in Q2 2020.

About Travelport

Travelport is the technology company which makes the experience of buying and managing travel continually better.  It operates a travel commerce platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the global travel and tourism industry.  The company facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business-to-business (B2B) travel platform.

Travelport has a leading position in airline merchandising, hotel content and distribution, car rental, mobile commerce and B2B payment solutions.  The company also provides IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions.  With net revenue of over $2.5 billion in 2018, Travelport is headquartered in Langley, U.K., has over 3,700 employees and is represented in approximately 180 countries and territories.

Media Contacts:

Anna Davies
Head of Global Communications
+44 (0) 7787 501908
anna.davies@travelport.com

Source: Travelport

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