Singapore, 12 July 2018 – The International Air Transport Association awarded Amadeus Level 3 New Distribution Capability aggregator certification, earlier this week.
This comes in addition to Amadeus’ existing level 3 NDC certification as an IT provider, making Amadeus one of the first providers to have dual level 3 certification.
Level 3 is the highest NDC certification and is awarded to companies that can demonstrate the ability to execute ‘Offer and Order Management’. This means that Amadeus is able to distribute NDC offers from airlines to middlemen travel sellers.
Through the NDC-X program, Amadeus is connecting airlines and travel sellers using the NDC standard. This certification has been achieved through Amadeus’ work with Travix, a leading online travel agency that joined the programme, earlier this year.
“We are pleased to be working with online leader Travix, and to be one of the first providers in the industry to achieve dual level 3 NDC certifications.
“The NDC-X programme is in full execution mode and this is the latest example of Amadeus enabling the reality of NDC for our global travel seller network,” said Amadeus vice president NDC-X programme, Gianni Pisanello.
Travix CEO John Mangelaars added: “It’s been an exciting few months working with Amadeus, as part of the NDC-X programme, to design a solution that will give online travel sellers access to aggregated NDC and non-NDC content. Later this year, our teams will be using this NDC enabled solution to ‘shop, order and pay’ through Amadeus.”
