Originally Posted by seawolf

The overblown component being described is if fares are cut off from travel portal it is because the travel agency involved didn’t adopt to AA NDC requirements and/or corporate didn’t sign up for direct access to negotiated fares via AA.com.

My corporate travel enabled access to negotiated fares directly on AA.com pre-COVID so this is a non-event.

The itinerary is fed back to our corporate T&E so the concern about not knowing where employees are or not know how much is spent for future contract negotiations is also not an issue.

So if your corporate agency is not adopting there are alternatives to bypass them. You would think this alternative is enough incentive for travel agents to adopt or lose contracts.

AA put a stake in the ground. Let’s see how it plays out holistically.