A judge's view: IATA’s AIR Hackathon gives lift to innovative ideas
Five secrets for building a platform for industry innovation
It’s easy for a company that’s been around for more than 50 years to just keep trundling along as always—but we haven’t. This is what we learned as we embraced innovation and got Bridge Labs, our innovation hub, off the ground. Secret 1: Have a clear-cut mission Nine months ago, I joined ATPCO with […]
New Distribution Capability (NDC): Luxury or necessity?
What is New Distribution Capability (NDC) IATA collaborated with the industry to develop the New Distribution Capability (NDC) program as a standard for travel industry APIs. NDC is a set of standards for airline distribution that facilitates the development and market adoption of XML-based data that is exchanged between airlines and sellers. That doesn’t sound […]
Building the future together
Yankee Queen and Yankee Romeo: A data love story
Get connected. Get noticed. Stay happy.
It’s time for airlines to get noticed in a sea of price points. It’s time for travelers to have a more transparent shopping experience when booking a flight. It was only natural that the industry’s trusted single source of airline pricing data would integrate content for flight shopping. ATPCO’s acquisition of Routehappy creates an industry […]
Ready to position dynamic pricing for the next decade?
What is dynamic pricing? What are the risks? What are the rewards? The recent research paper commissioned by ATPCO, Advances in Airline Pricing, Revenue Management, and Distribution, defined dynamic pricing creating three classifications: Assortment Optimization: selecting prices for a given product from a relatively small and finite assortment of pre-defined price points. Dynamic Price Adjustment: […]
It’s time to give travelers what they want
We’re used to seeing photos of products and hotel rooms and knowing what amenities are available before we hit that “Buy” button. The airline industry is too smart to be left behind. It’s time ATPCO, the world leader for airline pricing and shopping data, is acquiring Routehappy, the leading provider of content for flight shopping. […]
NDC and the need for network economics
One thing is clear in this complex, brave new world: new technologies and data standards, used together by a mix of capable system providers, industry organizations, and agile startups, will continue to drive innovation and serve airlines under the direction of the IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC). This will be a critical infrastructure to get travel-related products […]
Top 10 stories from 2017
1. Meeting the challenges of the relentless speed of the airline industry In February 2017, ATPCO opened a new era with a new President and CEO, Rolf Purzer, with a shift in our vision to be agile and embrace innovation, knowledge, and alignment. We shared the story and our plans for the future at our […]