The German scheduled and
executive-charter airline, Hahn Air, announced that it was granted NDC Certification
Level 3 status under the NDC (New Distribution Capability) Certification
Program provided by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). This
status recognizes that Hahn Air uses Offer and Order management messages whose
schemas are compliant with the standard NDC message schema, version 17.2.
“We are very proud to announce
this important milestone in our NDC journey”, says Christopher Allison, Head of
NDC at Hahn Air. “We are well on track to make our Hahn Air flights, and the
content of our partner airlines, available to travel sellers via NDC in 190
markets worldwide. In the coming months, we will connect additional agencies,
aggregators and partner airlines to our platform and introduce new features
such as more forms of payment, for example BSP and ARC, support for itinerary changes, and
ancillary content such as additional baggage and seat reservations.”
“We congratulate Hahn Air on
achieving NDC Level 3 Certification. Hahn Air joins the growing fold of
airlines involved in launching a new era of retailing in which travelers have
access to all of an airline’s products and services”, said Yanik Hoyles, IATA’s
Director, Industry Distribution Programs.
The certification follows the
launch of Hahn Air’s NDC platform announced in August 2019. The platform allows
airlines of any business model to introduce NDC to their distribution mix and
thereby extend their global customer base, while providing travel agencies
worldwide with access to content via Hahn Air’s NDC APIs (Application Programming
Interfaces). It also offers distribution opportunities for airlines that are
already NDC-capable.
Hahn Air’s NDC platform is powered
by two IATA certified technology partners with vast experience in airline
distribution: PROS provides shopping and pricing capability while 2e Systems is
responsible for the platform’s overall development and deployment, including
offer and order management. 2e Systems CTO, Andrew Hurst, said: “2e Systems is
delighted to deepen the relationship with Hahn Air with our IATA
certification. As a provider, 2e Systems is committed to continue supporting
the evolution of NDC." Boyan Manev, Principal Product Strategy at
PROS also commented “We are very pleased to see Hahn Air receive its NDC
certification, and to see our scalable shopping solutions used to help yet another
airline to achieve its distribution goals.”
For more details about Hahn Air and
its solutions for partner airlines and travel agents, visit www.hahnair.com.