Payment Presents Four Unresolved Challenges for NDC

Travel packages offered through NDC may create unexpected liabilities for airlines

At 2017’s World Passenger Symposium in Barcelona representatives of airline trade association IATA held up an inflatable unicorn with “NDC”, the name of a communications standard, written on the side and put it on a stool. During a presentation about the potential for the NDC to change the airline industry, it fell off. The metaphor is unfortunate - the…