New Distribution Capability: 2025 Updates

As New Distribution Capability continues to gain traction, airlines, booking tools, global distribution systems and other companies are announcing new partnerships to make NDC content available for booking. Airlines also are beginning to adopt offer-and-order management technologies, another step in business travel's modern-retailing journey. This page will provide a running list of those news briefs, with the most recent at the top. Help keep BTN up to date by sending NDC development news to BTN senior transportation editor Donna M. Airoldi [email protected]

December 2025

• Travelport and All Nippon Air have launched ANA’s NDC content across 40 global markets, the companies announced Dec. 18. The companies initially signed an NDC agreement in November 2024. 
• Lufthansa Group has added the code for Singapore Airlines to its NDC content, the Germany-based company announced Dec. 8. This move allows travel agents to book interline journeys combining Lufthansa Group and Singapore Airline flights through NDC channels. 
• Ethiopian Airlines has adopted Accelya's FLX Select product to offer the carrier's NDC content, Accelya announced Nov. 25. FLX Select is part of Accelya's modular FLX One platform, which also enables airlines to manage offer, order, settle and deliver processes. 
• BCD has launched NDC content with British Airways, the travel management company announced Nov. 24. BCD said NDC bookings currently account for 65 percent of traveler itineraries in cases where NDC is enabled.  

November 2025

• Travelport has agreed to distribute Riyadh Air’s NDC content, the technology company announced Nov. 20. Travelport also will integrate the carrier’s offer-and-order host system. The Saudi Arabian carrier plans to begin operations in late 2025 or early 2026. 
• Travel technology platform Oversee has launched NDC shopping capabilities with FCM Travel, enabling EDIFACT bookings to be converted to NDC bookings "when the rebooking is beneficial," the companies announced Nov. 6. They also are coordinating for "phased rollouts" of the joint solution for their mutual customers. 
• All Nippon Airways' NDC content now is available from Sabre-connected agencies through the SabreMosaic travel marketplace, Sabre announced Oct. 30. The ANA NDC is available in more than 40 countries. 
• Travelport and Royal Jordanian Airlines have expanded their distribution agreement to include NDC, Travelport announced Oct. 23. The company did not indicate when the NDC content would be available. 

October 2025 

• Saudia expanded its distribution deal with Travelport to include NDC, the technology company announced Oct. 20. The content will be available to agents connected to Travelport Plus.
• TravelPerk expanded its distribution agreement with Amadeus to include NDC content, the travel management company announced Oct. 9. New NDC connections via the partnership include Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Air Canada, Scandinavian Airlines and Lot Polish Airways.
• Air Canada's NDC content now is available to Travelport-connected agents using the Travelport Plus platform, the technology company announced Oct. 1. 
• Accelya to distribute Flydubai NDC content via the technology company's modular FLX One platform, Accelya announced Sept. 23. 

September 2025 

• TAP Air Portugal's NDC content is now available to Travelport Plus-connected agencies, Travelport announced Sept. 3. The distribution agreement includes all of TAP's NDC fares, routes, services and ancillaries.  

August 2025

• Turkish Airlines has added NDC-native distribution platform AirBooking as a partner to its TKConnect distribution channel, AirBooking announced Aug. 14. AirBooking now is able to display the carrier's NDC content alongside GDS content, and users can manage bookings and ancillaries on a single platform while avoiding Turkish Airline's $24 surcharge on EDIFACT bookings. 
• Four European travel technology companies have integrated Travelport's NDC APIs, with which they will be able to distribute Travelport Plus NDC airline content to their customers, the GDS company announced July 30. The four companies include U.K.-based booking platform Vibe, Travel Technology & Solutions, Czechia-based CEE Travel Systems and NPF, which works with Portuguese travel agency Abreu to connect to Travelport content. 
• Navan has introduced a new content aggregation platform as it focuses on direct connections for NDC airline content, the company announced on its blog July 21. Navan in June also turned off its GDS NDC content, but it continues to source some NDC content via an aggregator partner for about five airlines, the company told BTN Europe. 

July 2025

• AmTrav has added NDC content from Frontier Airlines, giving the travel management company's clients "the same pricing, itinerary and service options" available through the carrier's website, according to AmTrav. That includes Frontier's Business bundle, which includes seating in the first two rows with blocked middle seats for extra room. 
• Travelport now offers Taiwan-based EVA Air's NDC content in select countries, the technology company announced June 25. Those countries include Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States. 
• All Nippon Airways has expanded its NDC partnership with Trip.com to 11 additional markets, the companies announced June 24. The new markets include Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. 

June 2025

• Turkish Airlines content is back on Sabre after being absent since Sept. 1, 2024, the technology company announced June 23. The new deal includes EDIFACT and NDC content.  
• Airlines Reporting Corp. has integrated Philippine Airlines into Direct Connect, ARC's airline distribution platform that enables NDC transactions, ARC announced June 17.
• Serko has integrated Amadeus' NDC content and technology into its Zeno travel and expense platform, the company announced June 17. Currently, 35 airlines provide NDC content to the Amadeus Travel Platform. The integration would give its TMC and corporate clients an additional means of accessing NDC offers in advance of the launch of Qantas' new distribution model next month. Serko also is working to add more flexibility to Amadeus NDC bookings, including combining NDC and EDIFACT fares in a single booking and the ability to cancel NDC bookings before they are ticketed.

May 2025

• Riyadh Air has signed its first global distribution agreement with Sabre, the technology company announced May 13. The newly established national carrier for Saudi Arabia will have Sabre offer traditional EDIFACT content as well as NDC content. Riyadh previously selected SabreMosaic for its offer-and-order management capabilities. The carrier plans to begin flights by the end of 2025.
• Travelport will offer Latam's NDC content under the terms of an extended agreement, the technology company announced May 13. Travelport-connected agencies will be able to offer both EDIFACT and NDC content via Travelport Plus. The company did not provide a timeline for when the NDC content would go live.
• Finnair has created its first "native order" with Amadeus' Nevio technology as the carrier transitions to an offer-and-order system and away from traditional booking methods that use passenger name records and e-tickets, the airline announced May 13. 
• Sabre has activated NDC content for Air France and KLM in its travel marketplace, the travel technology company announced May 6. Sabre-connected agencies now can access the carriers' NDC content via Sabre's Offers and Orders APIs, the Sabre Red 360 agency booking solution, Sabre Red Launchpad, and "a range of online booking tools," according to the company. The integrations will allow for continuous pricing. 
• Aeromexico will use Sabre's SabreMosaic offer-and-offer retailing platform under an expanded agreement, the travel technology company announced May 5. Sabre did not provide an implementation date. The modular SabreMosaic partnership includes Air Price IQ and Ancillary IQ solutions "to enhance personalization and maximize revenue." Both products are AI-driven and will enable Aeromexico to provide dynamic pricing and personalized ancillary offers based on traveler behavior, according to Sabre.
• American Express Global Business Travel and Delta Air Lines have expanded their long-term agreement to include Delta's NDC offers in the Amex GBT marketplace when they become available, the travel management company announced May 1. The agreement also enables travelers to choose from Delta's range of branded fares—including joint venture partners Aeromexico, Latam, Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic, Air France and KLM—in one display in Amex GBT's booking channels. Delta has said it is building and testing an NDC solution, and officials in March said a large-scale launch was unlikely to happen in 2025.

April 2025

• ARC has added Royal Jordanian Airlines' NDC content into the ARC Direct Connect program, ARC announced April 30. The integration enables the carrier to offer "more personalized, efficient services to our valued customers in the U.S. market," Royal Jordanian chief commercial officer Karime Makhlouf said in a statement.
• Frontier Airlines has partnered with Amadeus to offer the carrier's NDC content via a GDS for the first time, the airline announced April 29. The NDC offers will provide "enhanced messaging" and "access to more options and more visibility to the best pricing available," according to Frontier. It also will enable "enhanced ancillary services and personalized offers," and a more "streamlined process for making changes to travel plans." 
• Sabre Corp. has activated Iberia's NDC content in its GDS, the travel technology company announced April 29. Sabre-connected agents can shop, book and service Iberia NDC offers alongside other Iberia content, such as EDIFACT offers, in Sabre's travel marketplace.
• Amex GBT and Finnair have partnered to expand new digital content, including NDC offerings, to corporate clients, the travel management company announced April 24. The Finnair NDC content will be available to Amex GBT customers without any surcharges, according to GBT. Finnair in 2024 pulled back on its previously announced plan to exit from EDIFACT completely by year-end 2025, citing that the "pace of change" toward modern airline retailing was taking longer than anticipated, according to BTN stablemate The Beat. 
• Travel and expense platform Mesh is partnering to add Sabre's NDC content to its travel-booking capabilities, the companies announced April 15. The midmarket-focused Mesh, which currently reports more than 2,000 customers, launched its travel management platform in 2023, and Sabre was live with the platform at the time of that launch. Adding Sabre's NDC content will expand options and offer more competitive pricing on the platform, according to Mesh.

March 2025

• Sabre has launched British Airways' NDC content in Sabre's travel marketplace, the technology company announced March 18. Sabre-connected travel agencies now can shop, book and service BA NDC offers alongside traditional EDIFACT options. Agencies can manage BA's offers and orders through the Sabre Red 360 agency booking solution, Sabre Red Launchpad and the Sabre Offer and Order APIs, according to Sabre. 

February 2025

• Sabre has launched Chilean carrier Latam's NDC content "in multiple countries," Sabre announced Feb. 26. Six of Latam's regionally branded subsidiary carriers are included in this agreement, serving Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, according to the companies. In addition to those six countries, 16 other countries were made active by this stage of Latam's NDC content rollout: the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand. The companies plan to activate additional markets in the coming months. Sabre initially announced its Latam NDC agreement in October 2023.
• Sabre-connected agencies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and "additional regions" now can book and service Lufthansa Group's NDC content, Sabre announced Feb. 24. Lufthansa Group includes the brands Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Swiss Air Dolomiti and Discover Airlines, formerly Eurowings Discover. The rollout of Lufthansa Group NDC on Sabre platforms began last year, and the "home markets" were the last to activate, according to a Sabre spokesperson. The expansion brings Lufthansa Group's NDC content to Sabre-connected travel agencies in more than 100 countries. 
• Air France-KLM has partnered to use Amadeus' Nevio technology to deploy an offer-and-order system, the airline company announced Feb. 18. The move to the new technology will be a "multi-year effort," according to Air France-KLM. Nevio will streamline purchases into a single order as opposed to having multiple documents, such as a passenger name record, an electronic ticket and electronic miscellaneous documents, for each booking, according to Air France-KLM.
• Icelandair has selected Amadeus Altea NDC as the carrier's NDC API provider, Amadeus announced Feb. 12, expanding the companies' relationship and enabling the distribution of the full range of the airline's content and fares, including web fares and NDC-based content, to Amadeus-connected agents. Implementation is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2025, according to the technology company. 
• Travelport has expanded its partnership with Chase Travel Group, which includes Frosch and Valerie Wilson Travel, to provide "enriched, multisource content from Travelport, in addition to modern retailing tools and merchandising features" through the Travelport Plus platform, the technology company announced Feb. 11. The expanded deal will enable Chase Travel Group to consume and present content from multiple sources and suppliers, including NDC and traditional content from air carriers, hotels and car rental companies.
• Travelport is providing NDC content to Atriis as part of an expanded agreement with the travel platform, the companies announced Feb. 3. Travelport's NDC offers and fares already are available to corporate clients in the Atriis platform, and the agreement also includes access to low-cost carrier, hotel and car rental content via Travelport. Atriis has previously announced NDC agreements with both Amadeus and Sabre.
• Amex GBThas agreed to an "enhanced" agreement with Lufthansa Group to "expand and accelerate availability" of the airline company's NDC-enabled fares, Amex GBT announced Feb. 3. The two companies have already been working together to distribute Lufthansa's NDC content for several years. The new "renewed, expanded" agreement is designed to accelerate the availability of Lufthansa's NDC fares and other content on Amex GBT's proprietary platforms, offline booking and third-party booking tools. It will also include access to Lufthansa's NDC-only rates and special promotions across the group's airlines, including Lufthansa, Swiss, Brussels Airlines and Austrian Airlines.

January 2025

• Sabre has started to offer Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia's NDC content in the Sabre marketplace, the technology company announced Jan. 14. The new offering enables travel agents, travel management companies and corporations to deliver tailored offers to their customers, according to Sabre. The technology company added that the development also marks the first time Saudia NDC content is available on a global distribution system. Amadeus in December announced it would begin to carry Saudia's NDC content "in the first quarter of 2025."
• ARC has implemented Vietnam Airlines' NDC content into the ARC Direct Connect program, ARC announced Jan. 14. The partnership helps Vietnam Airlines deliver more personalized traveler experiences while giving travel agencies and corporate buyers more options to manage transactions, minimize risk and track data through ARC's settlement platform, according to ARC. 
• Travelport will offer China Eastern Airlines' NDC content under the terms of a new multi-year agreement, the technology company announced Jan. 8. Travelport did not specify a date when the NDC content would become available. China Eastern is one of China's three major carriers and a member of the SkyTeam Alliance.