From 11 – 13 October 2019 Hahn Air provided its NDC APIs to the IATA AIR Hackathon in Frankfurt
where over 120 developers and start-ups competed to engineer innovative solutions
using IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard, alongside other Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs). Hahn Air’s NDC API Sandbox was used by one of
the winning teams, App in the Air.
Christopher Allison, Director, NDC,
commented: “We would like to congratulate App in the Air and all the winning
teams for their inventive solutions. Given how much Hahn Air values innovation,
we’re pleased to see Hahn Air’s APIs used by App in the Air to showcase their
creative thinking and engineering talent.”
Hahn Air’s NDC Platform and Sandbox is powered by 2e Systems, who
provided support over the course of the weekend to the developers using Hahn
Air’s APIs and ensured the smooth operations of the Sandbox.
IATA’s thirteenth AIR Hackathon asked participants to
address two challenges; a leisure traveler challenge to “come up with new ideas to
meet the demand of leisure travelers that want that “one” app or solution for
their trip planning and throughout the journey”, and a carbon offset
challenge “to increase passenger awareness on
CO2 compensation and consequently increase today’s low offset uptake of 1%”.
About 2e Systems: 2e Systems GmbH is a
software development company specialising in web, mobile and communications
solutions for the airline industry.