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Aer Lingus - Live!
In its continuous drive to be at the forefront of technological advances, Aer Lingus, is piloting the Shopping schemas to further enhance its retailing and merchandising capability with industry partners. This pilot concentrates on offering a rich retailing opportunity to travel management companies wishing to add value to their customers travel experience. Aer Lingus is pleased to partner with Club Travel for the distribution of ancillary products in a third party environment. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Air Canada
Under the leadership of ATPCO and OAG, Air Canada piloted the Airline Profile. The pilot consisted in understanding and addressing the challenges of implementing an Airline Profile created by Air Canada, stored and distributed by ATPCO and used by FareCompare. The Airline Profile pilot has demonstrated how an airline could use the Airline Profile to control the volume and types of shopping requests coming from the seller of airline products.
Air China - Live!
In cooperation with TravelSky, Air China piloted the NDC end-to-end schemas in order to validate that the schemas support the successful sale of international air tickets and prepaid baggage ancillary services with two agents, Ctrip and China Air Service (‘Phoenix Dances’ pilot). (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Air New Zealand
In cooperation with a US-based consolidator and with the support of IT provider JR Technologies, Air New Zealand piloted the Shopping schemas for the distribution of their “SkyCouch” and “Deluxe” products in a third-party environment. The pilot focused on enabling the delivery of rich product description and content related to these two products to their travel agency partners.
American Airlines- Live!
American Airlines participated in a pilot of the NDC offer/order processes in cooperation with IT partners Reserve and Farelogix. The initial phase of the pilot centered on the order fulfillment of tickets with ancillary merchandizing utilizing Reserve NDC gateway, NDC merchandizing engine, and end user interfaces for BSP travel agent sales channels. (NDC Schema: 1.1.0 and 1.1.3)
British Airways- Live!
British Airways piloted the NDC end-to-end schemas with the goal of more effectively distributing its products through third party channels. The focus is on the distribution of flight ancillaries, which gives the opportunity to travel agents to select them in the same way as they could through the airline website. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
China Southern Airlines - Live!
In cooperation with Ctrip and TravelSky, China’s global distribution and passenger services system provider, China Southern Airlines has migrated in 2015 to shopping schema version 1.1.3 and has implemented Order Management to test if the schema could fulfill the domestic one-way air ticket sales process. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Condor - Live!
In cooperation with its IT partner Pribas, Condor has implemented both Order and Offer Management NDC schemas. The project focuses on granting access to rich content, the ability to price and book flights, obtain availability, purchase ancillaries as well as to amend bookings. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Confidential Airline - Live!
Emirates - Live!
In cooperation with its IT partner Farelogix, Emirates has implemented the Shopping schemas to provide access to availability, pricing, shopping and ticketing plus facilitating ancillary sales of excess baggage, visas, Chauffeur Service and more. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Flybe - Live!
In cooperation with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Flybe is implementing an end-to-end pilot aiming at making Flybe's ancillary and inventory products accessible through agents connected to Travelfusion using NDC. This is accomplished by the use of the HPE NDC Adapter technology making it seamless to agents and efficient for Flybe. The implementation demonstrates how Flybe leverages the existing landscape provided by a harmonized NDC standard. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes- Live!
In cooperation with the TMC Flytour and the consolidator RexturAdvance, both based in Brazil, GOL has embarked on a NDC pilot with its Passenger Services System Provider, Navitaire. The project focused on NDC Shopping and has been live since December 2015. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Hainan Airlines - Live!
In cooperation with CTBA and TravelSky, Hainan Airlines piloted in 2014 the Shopping schemas in order to validate that they support the distribution of their domestic air products through local travel agencies (‘Skydreamer’ pilot). In 2015, the airline expanded the scope of the pilot to include the Order Management schemas in order to simulate an end-to-end transaction, and test their capability to distribute more rich content to CTBA. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Heli Air Monaco
Under the leadership of APG and Orchestra, Heli Air Monaco piloted the Shopping schemas with the goal of creating and distributing personalized offers through their website and mobile apps, using customer profile and advanced search criteria. These personalized offers are integrating some of the company’s luxury products such as limo transfers and panoramic flights and feature rich content. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Hong Kong Airlines - Live!
In cooperation with TravelSky, Hongkong Airlines has implemented the NDC end-to-end schemas in order to validate that the schemas support the successful sale of international air tickets. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Iberia
Having been involved with the IATA NDC initiative from the beginning, is presently building an NDC API to take advantage of the new opportunities this standard will provide to the industry. In 2016 Iberia will be piloting in cooperation with various industry partners, Shopping and Order Creation & Management processes with Ancillary Services. Iberia's intention is to be able to offer their customers a richer shopping experience together with the ability to personalise their experience should they so desire. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Iberia Express - Live!
In cooperation with IT Provider Indra and aggregator XML Travelgate, Iberia Express successfully implemented the Offer and Order Management schema.
With this program, Iberia Express enables direct distribution of its flights to the travel agents, reducing costs and increasing functionality. The project was completed in less than 5 months, demonstrating the airline’s commitment to innovation and improved customer experience. In 2016 Iberia Express became the first low cost carrier in the world to achieve NDC Certification. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
InselAir - Live!
In cooperation with its IT partners JR Technologies and SITA, InselAir has implemented bundled and unbundled ancillary merchandizing using the NDC standard. InselAir is currently retailing their products to both corporate agents as well as other travel agents. The pilot went live in December 2015, after which the scope will expand to online travel agents and additional functionality. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Qantas Airways Limited
In cooperation with an Australia-based industry partner, Qantas Airways Limited is piloting the NDC Shopping schemas for the distribution of their Chauffeur Drive product in a third party channel environment. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Qatar Airways - Live!
In cooperation with Farelogix, Qatar Airways tested a number of the Shopping schemas with selected travel agents. This pilot focused on showcasing the airline's premium products across all cabins to travel agents. (NDC Schema: 1.1.0 and 1.1.3)
Rotana Jet Aviation- Live!
The basic premise of Rotana Jet is to simplify the purchase of travel products, giving customers a “quick click” experience similar to purchasing from online retailing stores and also to have one record referencing all travel elements within an offer. Rotana Jet has implemented NDC schemas via their third party IT provider (TPConnects). This deployment is focusing on an end-to-end implementation and went live in 2015. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Scoot
Scoot is pursuing opportunities to offer more choices to their customers through the travel agency channel. In cooperation with Navitaire and Travelfusion, Scoot is piloting the NDC Shopping Schemas and aims to go live during Q1 2016. With NDC, agents will connect travelers to Scoot’s ancillary products such as additional luggage options or gourmet meals. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Shandong Airlines - Live!
In cooperation with TravelSky, Shandong Airlines, piloted in 2014 the Shopping schemas in order to validate that the schemas support the successful sale of the aviation insurance ancillary sold through the local retail agent, Qingdao Huajun Air Service (‘FlyInJoy’ pilot). In 2015, the airline expanded the scope of their pilot to include the Order Management schemas and test the capability of NDC to sell ancillary services. (NDC Schema: 1.1.3)
Shenzhen Airlines - Live!
In cooperation with TravelSky, Shenzhen Airlines has implemented the NDC end-to-end schemas in order to validate that the schemas support the successful sale of international air tickets. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
S7 Siberia Airlines - Live!
S7 Airlines is working on an NDC project with OnTravelSolutions Minsk and IT Provider Openjaw. The project is covering the full booking process, including issuance of documents. As part of this project, S7 will implement their first ancillary product: paid seat selection for a particular flight. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
Swiss International Air Lines
In cooperation with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Datalex and PROs, Swiss International Air Lines piloted the Shopping schemas in order to check their ability to support large transaction volumes. The pilot focused on managing dynamic pricing requests and measuring response time, in real-life scenarios such as flexible date shopping, comparison shopping, ancillary product shopping and personalized shopping. (NDC Schema: 1.1.1 and 1.1.2)
United Airlines
In cooperation with its global distribution system (GDS) partner, Amadeus, and IT partner Farelogix, United Airlines has implemented the Shopping schemas to sell dynamically-priced Economy Plus seating with extra legroom and other benefits. (NDC Schema: 1.0)
Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia used the NDC Baseline schemas to support its change in business model from a low cost carrier to a full service carrier in 2012. This pilot also reviewed the proposed NDC security model in order to provide feedback on airline profiling, schema binding and finally NDC support for REST implementations. (NDC Baseline Schema)
Xiamen Airlines – Live!
In cooperation with TravelSky, Xiamen Airlines has implemented the NDC end-to-end schemas in order to validate that the schemas support the successful sale of international air tickets. (NDC Schema: 15.2)
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