Travelport delivers NDC content and servicing for Qatar Airways

Its available in select countries

GDS and travel technology firm Travelport has announced its agreement with Qatar Airways, which sees its NDC content and enhanced servicing capabilities is now available in the Travelport+ platform. 

Travelport customers can search and compare NDC offers from Qatar Airways, as well as service NDC bookings, which includes modifications and cancellations. 

Travelport+ allows agency customers to access a wide range of content, fares, and offerings from Qatar Airways all in one place, which is enhanced by the Content Curation Layer.

This Travelport+ feature utilises AI and ML capabilities to provide agents and travellers with faster search response times, relevant results and greater accuracy.

"Our NDC collaboration with Travelport ensures that travel agents around the globe can effortlessly shop and book our growing repertoire of NDC offers and provide exceptional service to our customers, including post-ticketing," said Matt Raos, senior vice president, global sales of Qatar Airways. 

"Qatar Airways has long been committed to bringing our agency partners along on the NDC journey, so we're pleased to extend our NDC offers to Travelport subscribers." 

Jason Clarke, chief commercial officer, travel partners of Travelport, said: "Now that Qatar’s NDC content is available on Travelport+, our agency customers will have the ability to view and compare more dynamic offers and ancillaries from Qatar Airways so they can create a more streamlined, personalized experience for travelers."

"We’ve built our NDC solution to empower travel agents to operate as modern retailers and provide the level of service that travelers need beyond the point of booking, so that our partners benefit from more upsells and greater loyalty from their customers."

Travelport’s NDC content and servicing solution for Qatar Airways has first become available to agency customers located in select countries. 

Some now covered include Australia, Bahrain Hong Kong SAR, India, Nigeria, Thailand and the UK. 

Access will expand to agency customers located in additional countries around the world in the coming weeks.