Amadeus has highlighted the many challenges that IATA’s New Distribution technology standard still has to overcome.
In a report entitled NDC 2021 and the Path to Industrialization, the company says that while NDC has made significant progress in recent years, there will be a “multi-year period of transition” with both traditional and newer distribution channels working side-by-side.
Amadeus is calling 2021 the “year of scaling” for the technology standard with more travel retailers adopting NDC and airlines beginning to be able to differentiate themselves using the standard.
However, the report flags five remaining barriers to the technology achieving critical mass.
Not least of the hurdles is…