Travelport Delivers avianca’s NDC Content and Servicing on Travelport+

LANGLEY, UK, April 11, 2024: Travelport, a global technology company that powers bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide, and avianca, a Latin American multinational airline, headquartered in Colombia and a member of Star Alliance, today announced that NDC content from avianca and enhanced NDC servicing capabilities are now available in the Travelport+ platform. Travelport’s agency customers can easily access the complete avianca NDC solution on Travelport+ through the Travelport API, Smartpoint Cloud and Smartpoint desktop solutions.

Agents using Travelport+ will now be able to easily search, view, compare and book avianca’s NDC content alongside non-NDC fares in a single workflow. Travelport’s NDC solution for avianca also provides retail servicing capabilities, so that agents can seamlessly modify, exchange or cancel NDC bookings for travelers.

“Travelport has helped us achieve a significant milestone in our distribution strategy and ensures our agency retail partners can easily access our NDC offers and provide the best options to travelers,” said Catalina Nannig, Sales Vice President at avianca. “Travelport+ makes our content retail-ready for the agency community which reduces complexities and creates a faster, more modern selling and servicing experience.”

“Our collaboration with partners like avianca is focused on making the experience of booking and managing travel effortless,” said Carlos Torres, Director Latin America, Air Partners. “Now that our agency customers can access avianca’s NDC content in Travelport+, agents will have more opportunity to upsell and personalize offers for travelers based on their unique preferences.”

Travelport’s NDC content and servicing solution for avianca is now available to all agency customers located in Colombia, the United Kingdom and countries across Europe. Access to the avianca NDC solution in Travelport+ will expand to agency customers located in additional markets in the coming weeks.

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About Travelport

Travelport is a global technology company that powers bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide. Buyers and sellers of travel are connected by the company’s next generation marketplace, Travelport+, which simplifies how brands connect, upgrades how travel is sold, and enables modern digital retailing. Headquartered in the United Kingdom and operating in more than 165 countries around the world, Travelport is focused on driving innovation that simplifies the complex travel ecosystem.

About avianca

avianca includes avianca -Star Alliance member-, LifeMiles and avianca Cargo. In passenger transportation and with more than 102 years of continuous operation since 1919, avianca is the leading airline in Colombia, Ecuador, Central America and has one of the largest airline operations in Latin America with 130 routes, 3,800 weekly flights and a fleet of more than 110 Airbus 320 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, connecting to around 65 destinations in the Americas and Europe. More than 10 million members and 450 allied brands are part of its loyalty program, LifeMiles, one of the largest in the region. In cargo transportation, avianca Cargo is a leader in the region and is the main airline in different markets in the Americas. It serves more than 50 destinations with a fleet of Airbus A330 freighters, along with its operation of passenger aircraft bellies. avianca successfully emerged from Chapter 11 at the end of 2021 and today, has a team of more than 12,000 people committed to providing safe, convenient, affordable, and friendly service to its customers. More information is available at www.avianca.com

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