IATA NDCLink offers airlines the possibility to report NDC transactions with IATA Agents in the BSP under the format of daily standard RET batch file (as per DISH standards) .
NDCLink is a service available only to BSP participants. The airline must be NDC Level 3 certified and participate in each BSP of the countries it plans to report their agency NDC transactions in.
The airline creates a single global sales daily reporting file in the BSP industry standard reporting format (DISH-RET) and sends it to NDCLink. NDCLink conducts data integrity checks, splits the file into separate BSP files and submits them as required to each concerned BSP. Airlines will subsequently receive a report (HOT file) summarizing all NDC transactions along with their traditional BSP sales.
The airline submits the RET format file the next day as described in the NDCLink product guide version.1.03
Airlines using IFG for NDC transactions will not need to create the RET and report it to NDCLink: IFG will automatically create the RET file and manage the reporting. |
