Elkanio NDC: the flight NDC aggregator API beside your GDS and LCC content
Airlines are moving their best content to New Distribution Capability channels. Elkanio NDC connects you to that content through one normalised endpoint, with order management and servicing included, and returns it in the same search as your GDS and LCC results.
Legacy channels are losing content
Airlines are withholding fares and ancillaries from traditional EDIFACT channels and adding surcharges to them. Connecting directly to each carrier means certifying and maintaining many differing NDC implementations.
One aggregation layer
Elkanio holds the airline connections and keeps up with each carrier’s schema versions. You integrate once through Synapse, enable airlines per market and sell continuous pricing, rich content and ancillaries next to your existing supply.
What NDC does.
Continuous pricing
Access fares from airline dynamic pricing engines rather than fixed booking classes, returned in the same offer structure as GDS and LCC fares for easy comparison.
Rich content & ancillaries
Cabin imagery, fare family descriptions, seat maps and ancillaries such as bags, meals, Wi‑Fi and lounge access, bookable in the same flow.
One schema across airlines
Every airline implements IATA’s NDC standard slightly differently and on different versions. Elkanio normalises them into one predictable response through Synapse.
Order management
Orders rather than PNRs: create, change, cancel and reissue against the airline order, with the OrderID, ticket numbers and ancillary lines stored alongside the booking.
Post-booking servicing
Voluntary changes, cancellations and refunds, plus involuntary schedule changes surfaced to your team and travellers through Pulse, all handled through the same API.
Hybrid aggregation
NDC runs beside GDS and LCC content in one search. Routing rules decide per airline and market which channel answers, so availability is never lost during a transition.
From setup to steady state.
- 1
Choose airlines and markets
Enable carriers per point of sale and decide where NDC should lead or supplement.
- 2
Integrate once
Through Synapse. Existing Nucleus, Nova and Orbit customers switch it on without new integration.
- 3
Sell beside GDS and LCC
One result set, one basket, one payment. Ancillaries priced from the airline.
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Service the order
Changes, refunds and reissues through the API, with finance recorded in Vector.
Servicing included
Not just shopping and booking: changes, cancellations, refunds and involuntary schedule changes are supported through the API.
Finance alignment
Airline orders, ticket numbers and ancillary sales flow into Vector for reconciliation and reporting at the ancillary level.
No transition gap
Keep GDS and LCC feeds live in the same search while you move airlines to NDC at your own pace.
Where NDC fits.
NDC is part of these solution packages. Each combines a few products for one kind of travel business or one business need.
One of 12 products on a single core.
NDC shares its data model, supplier connectivity and customer records with every other Elkanio product. Start with one, add the next without an integration project.
See the full platformQuestions about NDC.
What is Elkanio NDC?
Elkanio NDC is a flight NDC aggregator API. It connects to airlines using IATA’s New Distribution Capability standard and normalises their differing implementations into one schema.
Why does NDC matter for travel sellers?
Airlines increasingly release continuous pricing, rich content and ancillaries only through NDC channels. An aggregator lets you sell that content without building and maintaining each airline connection yourself.
Does Elkanio NDC work with our existing GDS content?
Yes. NDC content is returned alongside GDS and LCC results through Synapse, so agents and booking engines see one combined result set.
Does Elkanio NDC support servicing after the booking?
Yes. Changes, cancellations, refunds and involuntary schedule changes are handled against the airline order through the same API, with the results recorded in Vector.
Do we need to certify with each airline ourselves?
No. Elkanio holds the airline connections and keeps up with each carrier’s schema versions. You integrate once with Synapse and enable airlines per market.
Ready to sell what the airlines are actually publishing?
Tell us your top airlines and markets. We will show NDC content beside your current results in the sandbox.