AirGateway offers real-time aggregated content for 25+ NDC airlines.
Shop, Book, and Fully Service your NDC in one single API/Agent Desktop.
Airlines want to bypass the GDS, not Travel Agencies. They incur significant costs for each ticket booked via GDS and offset these costs through "GDS surcharges" by making GDS content much more expensive.
Avoid these costs by booking NDC content of 25+ airlines on a single platform with AirGateway.
Many airlines have been introducing content differentiation to benefit their direct-content proposals over the EDIFACT/GDS channel.
You need to adopt NDC to access most of the commercial benefits from the most relevant airlines.
Migrating to NDC, many major airlines now offer private/negotiated fares solely via the NDC channel. Having direct commercial relationships with Travel Agencies, airline sales incentives are now an NDC-only perk.
The era of GDS incentives is over and the combination of the cheapest content, private fares, and airline incentives makes the NDC a must-have.
Using airlines' NDC web portals imposes many obstacles, including getting your booking data into your Mid/Back-Office. Manual copy/paste is out of the question.
We achieve seamless compatibility with your established Mid/Back-Office system using AIR, MIR, and IUR files. Automated downstream reporting with fully customizable Remark Templates without any development.
Bringing your NDC content into your internal booking tools, B2C/B2B booking engines, or allowing access to your content and bookings to 3rd-party applications (e.g. mTrip for mobile apps) is easy and flexible with AirGateway.
We provide a range of solutions: AirGateway API, webhook notifications, downstream reporting files, Airtable data reporting, and more.
Accessing an airline's NDC content is possible in 3 ways: 1) manually using web portal, 2) direct API integration, 3) via an aggregator like AirGateway.
Using AirGateway means you integrate and maintain only 1 API connection for all NDC content instead of dozens of separate (and different!) ones. You can also use BookingPad as a single screen for all NDC content instead of dozens of unconnected web portals.
Single-airline NDC portals each look and work differently, moreover, you can't compare offers from multiple airlines.
BookingPad provides a single interface to Shop, Book, Issue, and Fully Service all NDC airlines. Even more, the bookings automatically report to your Mid/Back-Office.
Hiring travel consultants with decades of GDS experience is costly, timely, and nowadays next to impossible.
Bring even new junior staff members to BookingPad - an intuitive web interface anyone can learn in under 60 minutes. There are no ADMs in NDC and even complex tasks are automated.
While you can't use your traveler profiles in the airline web NDC portals, you have multiple options with AirGateway.
You can use our built-in Profile Management Solution, access profiles via Umbrella Faces, or use profile synchronization through Kudos Travel.
We create GDS-format files (AIR/MIR/IUR) that are seamlessly accepted by your Mid/Back-Office. Fully automated with no manual efforts.
Moreover, you can fully customize your Remarks Templates.
Access a full range of servicing functionalities for each provider.
Perform fully automated Date Changes and Refunds with instant confirmation.
Add Ancillaries, Void tickets, and handle Disruptions.
Use our built-in profile management solution or access your Umbrella profiles.
Shop for Corporate Fares using corporate discount codes.
Get manager and travel approvals through Approval Management Process.
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NDC (New Distribution Capability) is a direct distribution channel introduced by airlines globally. NDC leverages technology to automate processes like refunds and date changes to avoid complicated manual tasks currently needed when using the GDS. Most importantly, it is the only way to access the best airline fares and their full fare family catalog.
Absolutely yes. Most major airlines have already introduced GDS surcharges making the fares in your GDS more expensive (on average 15€/segment), they limit the options in the GDS (e.g. Light Fares no longer bookable via GDS). On top of that, negotiated/private fares and incentive agreements are now usually offered only for the NDC channel.
No, NDC and GDS are two different worlds with no connection whatsoever. Even if you use a GDS-offered NDC solution, the NDC bookings will not come to your GDS Terminal. These two technologies are incompatible by design and since NDC is replacing GDS EDIFACT, the Terminal will be discontinued in the near future and all agencies will have to move to a graphical interface.
Moreover, utilizing GDS Passive Segments to bring your non-GDS bookings there is not advised and should only be a temporary solution. Some airlines are already penalizing agencies for such usage and this is another feature that will be discontinued relatively soon.
We recommend becoming Mid/Backoffice-centric rather than GDS-centric. Agencies already have multiple channels to access travel content (e.g. GDS, low-cost aggregator, NDC aggregator, etc.) and all your bookings should ideally meet in your Back-office. At AirGateway, we make this extremely simple by using AIR/MIR/IUR files with Remarks, so your current back-office solution accepts it seamlessly.
BookingPad needs no implementation making the onboarding extremely quick. You request NDC credentials from the airlines of your choice (it usually takes them a few days to issue the credentials), we plug it in, run a quick test booking with you, and you are good to go!
Why AirGateway? The most complete NDC content coverage on the market, full servicing of each airline available directly on the platform, and costs affordable by agencies of any size.
The great thing about NDC is the de-monopolization of the industry allowing new technology companies to enter. In NDC, the airline pays ZERO money to the aggregator (no matter if it's AGW or GDS) which means you need to pay for the solution. Since you need to pay, you need to select one that solves your needs. And you can easily compare the functionality, coverage, and costs of each solution. You can find all these details on our website, including the pricing.
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