Iberia Uses NDC System for all Corporate Client Services

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• In the first half of 2020 Iberia deployed the new 17.2 version of IATA’s New Distribution Channel (NDC) system, incorporating improvements such as the sale of ancillary services in tickets previously changed and the updating of contact data. 
• Some 30% of Iberia ticket sales via travel agencies in the Spanish market are now made by NDC connection.

In the fist half of 2020 Iberia continued to deploy the NDC system which now handles all services related to corporate travel --reservations, ticket issue, and fare processing-- thanks to IATA’s latest 17.2 version of the system. 

Iberia offers travel agencies multiple solutions for connecting to the NDC system, which provides access to the entire inventory of fares, while reducing costs significantly. Currently some 30% of Iberia’s domestic ticket sales via travel agencies take place through this channel, showing a ten-point increase in the first half of this year.

A total of some 4,200 issuers are now using this distribution channel which Iberia launched in 2017, and whose global use continues to expand.

Some 30 aggregators around the world are connected to NDC, and amongst them,  Lleego Travel Market, GAC Travel, Grupo Iris, Netviax, Offidesk, Airgateway, and Travelfusion are now certified users of version 17.2, so they can access all Iberia’s corporate products on the channel.

Latest NDC Innovations

Here are the new functionalities of the latest NDC version:

• Reservations, issuing, and processing of corporate fares
• Refunds of ancillaries
• Capacity to add ancillaries to flights previously changed
• Unlimited updating of contact data (of both customer and agency) 
• Validation mechanism for compound surnames with SARA application (managing fare discounts for residents of offshore Spanish territories)