What was the problem?
Corporate travel agencies and booking platforms faced steep distribution fees and limited fare visibility when relying on legacy Global Distribution Systems (GDS). Airlines were shifting commercial corporate fares to IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) XML/JSON APIs, but agencies lacked the engineering capacity to integrate these disparate carrier interfaces.
How we structured the solution.
A modern travel tech gateway connecting corporate booking tools directly to airline NDC fare APIs.
Connect airline NDC feeds. Bypass legacy booking fees.
REEA Digital architected an elastic API gateway utilizing Java Spring Boot on AWS that standardizes diverse airline NDC endpoints (Lufthansa Group, British Airways, American Airlines) into a clean, unified RESTful booking interface.
Corporate travel agents search real-time seat inventory, bundle personalized ancillary options (checked bags, lounge passes, extra legroom), and issue tickets directly with airlines, eliminating legacy GDS surcharge fees.
Integrate direct airline APIs. Reduce corporate travel costs.
The delivered capabilities were designed to solve the core problem: provide direct airline corporate inventory without legacy GDS booking surcharges.
Standardize heterogeneous airline NDC APIs
Translate complex airline-specific NDC schemas into a unified, high-performance RESTful search API.
Support rich ancillary merchandising
Enable corporate travelers to purchase baggage, priority boarding, and seat selections during checkout.
Automate order creation and ticketing workflows
Execute instant airline order creation, ticket issuance, and itinerary synchronization via direct carrier APIs.
Booking performance. Three measures of impact.
Booking speed improvement, direct airline connections, and corporate travel savings.
Savings per corporate ticket
Direct airline booking eliminating legacy GDS distribution surcharges.
Multi-carrier search latency
Real-time seat and fare aggregation across European and US airlines.
Policy compliance rate
Automated corporate travel budget and class-of-service compliance.
Looking to build custom travel booking engines or direct carrier API integrations?
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