IATA approves Sabre for ARM

BTN News
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Sabre Corporation  has been recognised as a system provider for both airlines and travel sellers in the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA’s) Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM) index, which replaces the previous IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) and ONE Order certifications.
 
It also recognises the benefits of value chain collaboration and value creation. 
 
Introduced in November 2021, the program is built on three pillars: Capabilities Verification to measure the technical abilities for shop, order, pay, settle, account and set up; Partnerships deployment to determine the scalability of NDC-enabled offers across the value chain and value capture compass to track potential value captured along the retail transformation journey.
 
“We wholeheartedly welcome IATA’s move toward a more layered and multi-faceted view of airline retailing”, said Kathy Morgan, vice president channel delivery Sabre Travel. 
 
“From the very beginning, we’ve approached NDC as a technical basis to deliver a more personalised traveller experience. 
 
"We named our program Beyond NDC to signal a focus not only on ticking boxes on a technical capability checklist, but also on a longer-term retailing vision and the value that NDC contributes."
 
Sabre has a busy NDC roadmap laid out for the remainder of 2022 to continue to advance its capabilities. Dynamic air pricing for NDC offers will become available with the recently launched Air Price IQ product within the Sabre Retail Intelligence suite, enabling airlines to optimize offers in real-time with market-leading machine learning and data analytics capabilities. Support for exchanges will be added to the current cancel, void and refund capabilities. 
 
Sabre is in discussions with more than 25 airlines about selling NDC offers through its marketplace. In addition to Singapore Airlines and Qantas – which combined are active in 50 markets and are starting to rollout their NDC content across North and South America – Sabre is actively engaged with Lufthansa Group, Qatar Airways and United Airlines, among many others. 
 
NDC offers from these airlines will be available in the coming months through Sabre’s Offer and Order APIs, agency point of sale, Sabre Red 360 and online booking tool, GetThere.

IATA approves Sabre for ARM

BTN News
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Sabre Corporation  has been recognised as a system provider for both airlines and travel sellers in the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA’s) Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM) index, which replaces the previous IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) and ONE Order certifications.
 
It also recognises the benefits of value chain collaboration and value creation. 
 
Introduced in November 2021, the program is built on three pillars: Capabilities Verification to measure the technical abilities for shop, order, pay, settle, account and set up; Partnerships deployment to determine the scalability of NDC-enabled offers across the value chain and value capture compass to track potential value captured along the retail transformation journey.
 
“We wholeheartedly welcome IATA’s move toward a more layered and multi-faceted view of airline retailing”, said Kathy Morgan, vice president channel delivery Sabre Travel. 
 
“From the very beginning, we’ve approached NDC as a technical basis to deliver a more personalised traveller experience. 
 
"We named our program Beyond NDC to signal a focus not only on ticking boxes on a technical capability checklist, but also on a longer-term retailing vision and the value that NDC contributes."
 
Sabre has a busy NDC roadmap laid out for the remainder of 2022 to continue to advance its capabilities. Dynamic air pricing for NDC offers will become available with the recently launched Air Price IQ product within the Sabre Retail Intelligence suite, enabling airlines to optimize offers in real-time with market-leading machine learning and data analytics capabilities. Support for exchanges will be added to the current cancel, void and refund capabilities. 
 
Sabre is in discussions with more than 25 airlines about selling NDC offers through its marketplace. In addition to Singapore Airlines and Qantas – which combined are active in 50 markets and are starting to rollout their NDC content across North and South America – Sabre is actively engaged with Lufthansa Group, Qatar Airways and United Airlines, among many others. 
 
NDC offers from these airlines will be available in the coming months through Sabre’s Offer and Order APIs, agency point of sale, Sabre Red 360 and online booking tool, GetThere.