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Jul 14, 2023 | 10:40 pm

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Originally Posted by turkeyRIOO

Google “NDC and American Airlines” and you will see the reason for the fare differences.

MR are used for most of our corporate travel. The implementation of NDC has cost AA about $30k in revenue from my small business. Most of that revenue has gone to DL.

I believe I read the threshold to release inventory to OTA is $170 one way for coach. Based in ATL, most flights to AA cities fall under the threshold. I have read that AA is feeling the loss of revenue and may adjust NDC parameters.

United does very similar things with NDC.

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Originally Posted by mia

There is some discussion in this thread Booking AA via AMEX for less than aa.com? with a link to a discussion in the AA forum. I did not realize that UA was doing something similar.

This has nothing to do with NDC. NDC fares are not available through our GDS, so my ability to match the lower fare in the GDS but not Amex, proves it’s an Amex issue.

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