Spain’s third largest airline Air Europa is to start the roll out of a brand new distribution and retailing platform with Ratailaer.
A primary section of the roll out will concentrate on choose companions in Spain who shall be given entry to the brand new international purchasing and ancillaries Provide and Order Administration System (OMS).
The Retailaer platform is a next-generation distribution platform constructed assist journey brokers accessing airways’ New Distribution Functionality fares and content material.
Air Europa’s preliminary launch in Spain will come earlier than a world rollout later within the yr.
The airline mentioned the partnership with Retailaer units “a brand new normal within the airline trade, demonstrating how trendy applied sciences can ship a extra responsive and personalised expertise for journey brokers reserving with airways”.
Air Europa will profit from Retailaer’s modular method that helps different retail know-how companions together with PROS Group Gross sales Optimiser answer and IATA Monetary Gateway.
Yago Casasnovas, head of funds, fraud prevention and distribution at Air Europa, mentioned:
“We’re more than happy to have Retailaer’s platform in place to attach with our content material to additional prolong our NDC journey, and the connection with our companions all over the world.
“It is a additional step in keeping with the targets we’ve set in serving to the consumer to determine how they wish to entry our content material, which is mirrored in our marketing campaign slogan ‘You determine’.
“The potential of accessing our content material by way of our Journey Company portal, NDC or GDS makes purchasing with Air Europa simpler than ever.”
Anders Lofgren, co-founder and chief government of Retailaer, added: “We’re proud to assist Air Europa in constructing a extra environment friendly, related, and related retail expertise for the journey commerce.
“Air Europa’s adoption of the Join platform demonstrates how airways can unlock new worth for its company community with out being constrained by legacy infrastructure.
“At Retailaer, we imagine the way forward for airline retailing lies in adaptability, agility, pace to market and true associate enablement.”
