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Sabre advances NDC in collaboration with airline and travel agency partners
Technology leader achieves NDC Level 4 certification as an aggregator; Belavia - Belarusian Airlines receives Level 3 certification using Sabre's NDC
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[{"type":"text","content":"Technology leader achieves NDC Level 4 certification as an aggregator;\n Belavia - Belarusian Airlines receives Level 3 certification using Sabre's NDC capabilities\n\n\nSOUTHLAKE, Texas, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, has announced two milestones on the road to enabling NDC capabilities and creating the leading global marketplace for personalized travel. \nAchieved in collaboration with travel agency Flight Centre Travel Group and an airline partner, Sabre is now Level 4 certified as an aggregator under the International Air Transport Association (IATA) NDC Certification Program. The achievement will help Sabre in its aim to increase access to leading content for all participants in the travel value chain and constitutes one of many enabling elements of the Sabre platform. \n\"Flight Centre Travel Group is delighted to have supported Sabre in achieving this milestone. As one of the largest leisure and business travel agencies in the world, our priority has always been to drive the NDC roadmap in order to ensure our customers benefit from the opportunities that NDC presents,\" said John Beauvais, Global Head of Supply, Flight Centre Travel Group. \"We have worked closely with Sabre as a lead partner in their \"Beyond NDC\" initiative to help achieve this over the last two years. However, in the post-Covid era, NDC will play an even greater role in travel distribution. The fact that Sabre is IATA Level 4 certified will enable our travel consultants to access an even wider choice of content and provide their customers with an even greater degree of personalization.\"\nThe certification confirms Sabre's technical ability to support a set of criteria related to full offer and order management capabilities. It also demonstrates additional progress for Sabre in going beyond the NDC standards – to facilitate omnichannel retailing and distribution of intelligent airline offers and develop scalable capabilities for travel intermediaries. \nBelavia leveraging Sabre's NDC capabilities\nBelavia – Belarusian Airlines became the first carrier globally to achieve IATA's Level 3 certification using Sabre's airline IT NDC capabilities, representing a meaningful step forward in the airline's retailing evolution. A Sabre passenger service s...