Travelport’s renewed distribution agreement with Delta Air Lines confirms NDC integration

Travelport, a worldwide know-how firm that powers journey bookings for a whole lot of hundreds of journey suppliers worldwide,  introduced it has signed a multi-year renewal agreement with Delta Air Lines, together with NDC content material. The high U.S. airline is collaborating with Travelport on the integration of its NDC answer into Travelport+ to assist Delta’s promoting and servicing transformation.

“We value our long-term partnership with Travelport and are pleased to extend our full content agreement, as well as make Delta’s NDC technology solution available to all of Travelport’s agency customers,” mentioned Jeff Lobl, Managing Director, Distribution Strategy and Agency Sales Programs at Delta Air Lines. “Together, we aim to create value by ensuring customers are presented with the best options to fit their needs for a better, more personalized shopping experience.”

To assist businesses clear up challenges with evaluating NDC presents alongside conventional content material, Travelport lately debuted its Content Curation Layer (CCL). Travelport’s CCL makes use of synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) to sift by aggregated, multi-source content material and return the best vary of correct, extremely intuitive search outcomes which are normalized and simpler for brokers and vacationers to know. CCL is the newest enhancement to the Travelport+ platform, simplifying the supply of retail-ready content material from companions like Delta and presenting tailor-made choices to company clients and the end-traveler.

“Our renewed agreement with Delta underscores our shared commitment to modernizing travel retail for agents and travelers with a seamless, personalized shopping and servicing experience,” mentioned Damian Hickey, Global Head of Travel Partners at Travelport. “As we prepare for the future delivery of Delta’s NDC content, our ability to deliver multi-source content in a retail-ready way ensures that agents and travelers will be able to easily shop and compare all of Delta’s product offerings in one place.”