Concur adds BA and Lufthansa NDC content

Concur adds BA and Lufthansa NDC content

Concur has previously announced TripLink agreements with BA, Lufthansa and Iberia that enables mutual customers to capture business travel bookings made directly via the airlines’ channels Continue reading

Expense management solutions and services provider Concur is adding British Airways and Lufthansa’s new distribution capability (NDC) content in Concur Travel.

Concur has previously announced TripLink agreements with BA, Lufthansa and Iberia that enables mutual customers to capture business travel bookings made directly via the airlines’ channels.

Additionally, Concur has been working with the GDSs to incorporate branded fares content into its corporate booking tool.

Business customers will gain greater flexibility and the option to choose a system that best suits their needs, Concur claims.

This can be booking in Concur Travel using GDS or NDC content, or through the airlines’ direct channels using TripLink.

Corporate customers will be able to apply corporate travel policy, cost control and duty of care obligations to all bookings.

Travel management companies that are already working with airlines via NDC, or Concur to access TripLink data, can obtain access to all their corporate customer bookings.

These functionalities will be available later in the year when all these options will be live.

This will allow TMCs to provide additional reporting, account support or traveller service to all their corporate clients.

Travellers booking through NDC may also have quicker access to new products and benefit from personal offers.

Concur chief revenue officer Scott Torrey said: “Concur’s goal is to support our customers’ managed travel programmes by providing compliant content wherever their travellers book, may it be through NDC, GDS branded fares or through the airlines direct channels via TripLink.

“Concur’s corporate customers can enforce corporate travel policy, manage negotiated fares and their duty of care programmes.”