Accelya, a global software provider to the airline industry, has renewed its New Distribution Capability (NDC) partnership with major US carrier United Airlines.
The renewed partnership follows a surge in demand for United’s NDC content, with the carrier continuing to harness the power of Accelya’s industry-leading FLX Passenger Platform to seamlessly create, differentiate and bundle its offers across all channels.
This announcement further solidifies United’s commitment to encouraging the adoption of its NDC channel. It follows the carrier’s recent decision to remove Basic Economy fares, designed to work in concert with ancillary sales, from its GDS EDIFACT channels.
“We rely on Accelya’s technology to provide innovative products and services to our customers including Dynamically Bundled Ancillary Offers and Continuous Pricing.” said Glenn Hollister, Vice President for Sales Strategy & Effectiveness at United Airlines. “United NDC enables an omni-channel customer experience where customers can book travel via a travel agency and receive servicing via the agency, united.com or in the United mobile app without creating ticket control issues and ensuring the travel agency is notified of booking changes made via United channels.”
“As the world’s leading NDC enabler, we’re thrilled to see United Airlines further leveraging Accelya’s NDC capabilities,” commented Sam Gilliland, Chief Executive Officer at Accelya. “We look forward to supporting United’s ambitious distribution strategy as it leverages our modular, cloud-based, airline-first software to further transform its NDC volume capability.”