Application for Approval of Docket OST-‐2013-‐0048 An Agreement (Resolution 787) Adopted by the International Air Transport AssociationApplication for Approval of an Agreement • March 17th, 2024
This enhanced airline distribution resolution provides for the adoption of a messaging standard, based on XML programming language, that airlines can choose to adopt in order to dynamically sell their products and services through the indirect channel (i.e., travel agents, OTAs, GDSs, TMCs, etc.). This resolution will therefore help the airline industry evolve and modernize to the benefit of all the participants in the air travel industry—from airlines to intermediaries to travel sellers to the millions of ticket purchasers—and do so in a manner that is consistent and efficient.
APPROVAL OF AN AGREEMENT (RESOLUTION 787) BY THE INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATIONApplication for Approval of an Agreement • March 14th, 2013
This application requests DOT to approve new IATA Resolution 787 (Enhanced Airline Distribution) that was adopted by the Passenger Services Conference during its 18-19 October 2012 meeting. Antitrust immunity is neither requested nor necessary for the Resolution, which establishes high-level objectives for and a process for developing a new electronic data interchange standard for airline distribution communications using Extensible Markup Language (XML), the modern programming language of the Internet. The Resolution is intended to become effective on 1 June 2013. Copies of the Resolution, the supporting conference documentation and conference minutes are attached.
