Air Canada plans to go live with NDC content within Sabre in the coming weeks. And, the airline is doing away with a surcharge on legacy GDS bookings for all but the lowest fare classes in each cabin.
Air Canada last year implemented an NDC strategy that offers incentive payments for NDC bookings and assesses a surcharge on legacy GDS bookings.
Air Canada says the strategy has helped it reach a total of more than 600 agencies that are now booking the airline via digital modern merchandising technology.
But now the surcharge will go away for most fare buckets. The surcharge of $21.50 for legacy bookings in Amadeus and Travelport and $24.50 in Sabre now only applies to the G, K, A and P fare buckets.
The Sabre launch, for which the…