ANA Begins Flight Ticket Sales through NDC with Hopper

All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest 5-Star airline for 12 consecutive years, and Hopper began sales of ANA international tickets using New Distribution Capability* (NDC). Hopper is a global travel platform which powers its consumer mobile application, website and its partners' direct channels via their B2B division, HTS. ANA’s NDC platform is powered by OpenJaw Technologies, and its contents are delivered via Travelfusion*, a leading content aggregator. This marks the first time ANA will conduct sales using NDC in the United States.

Hopper and its HTS partners will have full access to ANA’s content, fares and ancillaries, including the best available published prices. In addition to booking and issuing ANA airline tickets, customers will be able to handle basic changes in their reservations and refunds via Hopper.

Hopper’s consumer application is the 3rd largest online travel agency (OTA) in North America with over 120 million downloads. Its B2B division, HTS, supercharges partners’ direct channels with world-class travel products and now accounts for three-quarters of the Hopper business.

“Hopper and HTS have been at the forefront of NDC partnerships in the industry, and we continue to push innovation forward for the benefit of our customers and partners,” said Raegan Armstrong, VP of Global Airline Partnerships at Hopper. “This NDC partnership with ANA is an important step in our mission to provide the best experience for travelers globally.”

“We are excited to achieve this new milestone with Hopper” said Sawako Oda, Vice President of ANA The Americas, Marketing & Sales. "As ANA's first NDC partner in the U.S., Hopper will help us to continue to enhance travel experiences for our customers."

ANA will continue to enhance the NDC platform to make international flight ticket reservations and purchases easier and more convenient for a wider range of customers.

Information regarding NDC is also available on the ANA NDC Website.

Website URL: https://www.ana.co.jp/businesspartners/en/ndc/

About Hopper 

Hopper is a global travel platform that powers the Hopper mobile app and HTS partners' direct channels. Hopper uses data to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. The company developed unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions. The Hopper platform serves millions of travelers and continues to capture market share around the world. Through HTS, its B2B initiative, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels with its travel agency and novel fintech. To find out more about Hopper and HTS, visit Hopper.com and hts.hopper.com.

About Openjaw Technologies

The Dublin-headquartered travel technology company delivers e-commerce solutions to the world’s leading travel brands. OpenJaw t-Retail offers unparalleled capabilities in Dynamic Offer and Order Management with seamless delivery of rich content and differentiated Offers. Using t-Retail, airlines can effectively control and optimize their product offers, drive additional revenue, and reduce distribution costs. With a 100% track record of delivering multi-vendor, multi-year solutions to clients, OpenJaw is a proven delivery partner for large-scale Retailing and NDC solutions.

About Travelfusion

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, Travelfusion is the industry's largest content aggregator, serving content from 66+ FSC NDC and 400+ LCC airlines to a global network of agencies including the top OTAs, TMCs, OBTs, and meta-searches. Travelfusion embraced NDC from its beginning and provides a fully mature solution allowing agencies to access fares and ancillaries from all connected NDC and LCC airlines via a single API connection or portal, also providing global reach to airlines via a single integration. Travelfusion also offers full end-to-end servicing, including disruption handling, on NDC bookings via APIs or offline portals to cover all the requirements of any agency or airline in the NDC space.

About NDC（New Distribution Capability)

NDC is the new communication standard established by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to deliver information on airline tickets and their ancillary services. Through platforms that comply with this standard, ANA’s reservation systems are directly linked to those of our external partners. This enables the partners’ platforms to obtain a wide range of information, including in-flight services, seats and the number and size of carry-on baggage. Utilizing this global industry standard technology, ANA will enhance the booking experience for customers on partners’ platforms.