Spotnana has developed a direct integration with Copa Airways’ new distribution functionality API, bringing the provider’s unique gross sales promotions, ancillary merchandise and different company content material to the Spotnana platform, the businesses introduced.
The combination consists of entry to Copa’s PriceLock product, which lets vacationers maintain reservations for as much as seven days, and self-service cancellations, refunds and exchanges, based on Spotnana. It additionally permits journey bookers to bypass Copa’s surcharge on EDIFACT reservations, which it launched in September 2022 and this month elevated to $24 per course of a visit.
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Spotnana mentioned it was in a position to combine with Copa’s NDC API in a single day. “We’re experiencing quickly rising demand from our largest world prospects for NDC content material in Latin America and are very excited to work with Copa Airways as a key associate to deal with this want,” Spotnana founder and CEO Sarosh Waghmar mentioned in a press release.
Copa launched its Copa Join distribution program — which offers NDC content material to businesses by way of API, a web-based reserving platform and a connection to know-how corporations which might be linked to its API — in September 2022, and it at the moment accounts for greater than half of company tickets issued on Copa, based on Dennis Cary, the provider’s chief industrial officer.
*This story initially appeared in Enterprise Journey Information, a fellow Northstar Journey Group publication.
