Airline content aggregator TPConnects Technologies has developed a Model Context Protocol layer for its Iris platform to enable interaction between its content and AI agents, the company announced.
Iris aggregates both New Distribution Capability and low-cost carrier content as well as global distribution system content to be accessed from a single source. With its new MCP layer, that content can be turned into machine-readable protocol that is easy for AI agents and automated tools to understand, according to the company.
"The travel ecosystem is moving toward AI-driven commerce, conversational booking and automated agents, but these systems need structured, machine-readable access to airline capabilities," TPConnects co-founder and chief technology officer Praveen Kumar said in a statement. "MCP provides that layer. When we add a new carrier, or an airline introduces new capabilities, MCP-reading systems discover them instantly—no manual configuration, no update cycles, no barriers to velocity."
The company last month announced an MCP layer to its Astra NDC platform, which enabled a single integration point for all NDC versions and schema variations.