WHY IT RATES: The 2 corporations have launched into an in depth collaboration with the final word intention of integrating Virgin Atlantic’s NDC-based (New Distribution Functionality) choices into the industry-leading Amadeus Journey Platform. In doing so, they search to supply journey sellers with a extra streamlined and environment friendly reserving course of, and customers with the flexibility to buy, examine and mix a fair wider number of journey merchandise. — Laurie Baratti, TravelPulse Affiliate Author
Virgin Atlantic and Amadeus have confirmed their renewed and expanded distribution settlement to additional allow journey retailing, together with the long run distribution of the airline’s NDC-based providing. The settlement permits for a broader providing for vacationers and enhanced operational efficiencies for journey sellers.
The settlement means Virgin Atlantic will hold accessing the largest community of journey sellers worldwide by the Amadeus Journey Platform. Journey sellers throughout the globe will proceed to get pleasure from clean and environment friendly entry to Virgin Atlantic’s giant community of flights and stock – offering them with wider reserving potentialities and extra choices to construct the journeys and experiences that vacationers need.
Virgin Atlantic and Amadeus share the identical imaginative and prescient of delivering on the calls for of the traveler, who crave selection, transparency and talent to check, with quick access to intensive journey content material through the channel of their selection, and the 2 corporations have launched into an in depth collaboration to construct the combination of the Virgin Atlantic’s NDC-based content material into the Amadeus Journey Platform.
Juha Jarvinen, Chief Business Officer, Virgin Atlantic stated: “We’re delighted to be strengthening our partnership with Amadeus. The Amadeus Journey Platform supplies the attain, scale and retailing capabilities to help our multi-channel distribution technique. The journey vendor neighborhood continues to play a key function for us, and we’re blissful to maintain giving journey sellers worldwide entry to our international community of flights with the environment friendly servicing and processing capabilities coming from the Amadeus platform and options.”
Gianni Pisanello, SVP, Business, Airways, Western Europe Amadeus stated: “Extending our partnership with Virgin Atlantic signifies that we proceed to ship on our dedication of bringing probably the most complete content material and clean reserving administration for our journey sellers, and on the identical time help the airways of their distribution technique. We’re very blissful about our continued collaboration, and are wanting ahead to becoming a member of forces within the coming years to carry new alternatives to vacationers and journey sellers alike.”
SOURCE: Amadeus press launch.
