New Distribution Capability (NDC) NDC Certification February 2016 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) NDC Certification February 2016 NDC Certification. Why? To provide transparency on existing NDC 1 deployments : Airlines & Distributors To validate the capability of supporting IT 2 providers in these


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New Distribution Capability (NDC) NDC Certification

February 2016

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NDC Certification. Why?

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To provide transparency on existing NDC deployments: Airlines & Distributors To validate the capability of supporting IT providers in these instances To protect the NDC brand and support NDC early adopters To accelerate NDC adoption

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NDC Certification. What?

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Seller Airline Aggregator NDC NDC XML XML

  • 1. The capability to receive and send NDC

messages

  • 2. Specific NDC end-points – as opposed to

generic products

IT Provider IT Provider

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NDC Certification. Who?

IT Providers – Any vendor that offers NDC

products for airlines and distributors NDC-Capable Products NDC-Certified Deployments Any airline that deploys an NDC API

Airlines

Any travel agent or aggregator that consumes these APIs

Distributors

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NDC Certification. Scope & Levels

XML-Capable NDC-Capable : IT Providers NDC-Certified : Airlines, Travel Agents, Aggregators

NDC Baseline (OpenAxis) OTA, All XMLs

Level 1 Basic Level 2 Offer Management

  • Extensive use of

Offer Management API

  • AirShopping

required

Level 3 Offer and Order Management

  • Extensive use of

Offer and Order Management API

NDC 1.*, 15.2 + NDC 1.1*, 15.2 + NDC 1.1*, 15.2 +

NDC Certification

  • Basic Shopping:

Ancillaries post booking

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NDC Certification. Process

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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Airlines, Distributors & IT Providers IATA

  • Official notification
  • Publication on NDC

Certification Registry

  • Use of IATA NDC

Certified/Capable Logo

  • Apply for certification
  • Complete

certification form

  • Capture NDC

messages

  • Send trace to IATA
  • Certification

authority

  • Validate trace

Benefits

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NDC Certification. Progress

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  • Program launch
  • Accepting applications from October 2015
  • Fee will be waived until end Q2 2016

WPS 2015

  • Launch of NDC Certification Registry

Mid-2016

Accelerate NDC adoption

  • Engage with NDC community
  • NDC early adopters going through

certification process

Q1 and Q2 2016

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Interested? Find Out More At:

Web: http://www.iata.org/ndc Email: NDCCertification@iata.org

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