Are Airline Booking Sites Fair?

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Originally Posted by Hartington

IATA has recently come up with something the call "New Distribution Capability". I'll leave you to read and make your own mind up about that. IATA - New Distribution Capability (NDC)

Thank you for your detailed explanation.

As I understand it IATA's NDC is to give agents the ability to price all the options in a similar way to the airlines. For example some airline's web-sites can quote you the fare, the seat selection fee, the priority booking fee, the in-flight meal fee etc. The agents site can quote you only the fare.

Not everyone is confident that IATA's NDC will work, or will be neutral. But on the other hand it should allow agents to do what is only doable directly on airlines sites at the moment. A lot more than they can do now. The GDSs are certainly suspicious of IATA's intentions, but you need to consider their motivations as well
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