Qatar Airways is the first airline in the Middle East and Africa region to achieve the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA's) New Distribution Capability (NDC) Level 3 Certification, demonstrating its use of the latest technological standards in providing information about airfares and other services to customers and to travel agents or another third party. Qatar Airways is also the second airline globally to implement the latest version of the standard.
This certification, the highest level to be achieved under IATA’s NDC Certification Programme, provides increased transparency and speed of communication, allowing customers access to a wider choice of products and services, and enabling them to make more informed buying decisions.
Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Ehab Amin said: “As a global business with a global presence, we want to make it easier for customers to access our growing global network and range of products and services. As choices become more complex, we have to provide ways to access them more simply. That is what NDC is all about for Qatar Airways: improving the experience for our passengers.”
IATA Director NDC Program Yanik Hoyles said: “Congratulations to Qatar Airways on achieving the first Level 3 Certification on NDC standard 17.2 in the Africa and Middle East Region. Beginning with their participation with the full trial and live deployment of NDC, Qatar Airways has been a leader in the region in supporting NDC. It is a standard that is modernising the way that airline products are presented through travel agents, helping to deliver a fuller and more transparent shopping experience to travellers.”
Technology provider TPConnects has been chosen to provide the technology link between airline, service providers and customers to a new global standard. TPConnects Chief Executive Officer, Rajendran Vellapalath, said: "Travel agents using TPConnects NDC Certified B2B Aggregator Platform and Booking Engine will be able to access Qatar Airways prices, inventory and fares directly, including ancillary and fare family content, using NDC offers and orders. TPConnects is committed to work with IATA to further implement NDC and to support the evolution of this new messaging standard."
This certification, the highest level to be achieved under IATA’s NDC Certification Programme, provides increased transparency and speed of communication, allowing customers access to a wider choice of products and services, and enabling them to make more informed buying decisions.
Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Ehab Amin said: “As a global business with a global presence, we want to make it easier for customers to access our growing global network and range of products and services. As choices become more complex, we have to provide ways to access them more simply. That is what NDC is all about for Qatar Airways: improving the experience for our passengers.”
IATA Director NDC Program Yanik Hoyles said: “Congratulations to Qatar Airways on achieving the first Level 3 Certification on NDC standard 17.2 in the Africa and Middle East Region. Beginning with their participation with the full trial and live deployment of NDC, Qatar Airways has been a leader in the region in supporting NDC. It is a standard that is modernising the way that airline products are presented through travel agents, helping to deliver a fuller and more transparent shopping experience to travellers.”
Technology provider TPConnects has been chosen to provide the technology link between airline, service providers and customers to a new global standard. TPConnects Chief Executive Officer, Rajendran Vellapalath, said: "Travel agents using TPConnects NDC Certified B2B Aggregator Platform and Booking Engine will be able to access Qatar Airways prices, inventory and fares directly, including ancillary and fare family content, using NDC offers and orders. TPConnects is committed to work with IATA to further implement NDC and to support the evolution of this new messaging standard."
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