Quantifying the savings from NDC and direct connections

Data is essential for informed decision-making. That’s why we equip our customers with real-time tracking, actionable insights, and a suite of out-of-the-box travel reports designed to answer critical business questions.

Spotnana’s real-time analytics empower travel managers with deep insights to optimize travel spend, increase  policy compliance, and negotiate better discounts.

Our configurable reports offer a comprehensive view of travel expenses and activity across flights, hotels, car rentals, and rail. Additionally, our reporting dashboards provide visibility into key metrics including compliance, unused tickets, sustainability, and more—helping businesses manage corporate travel with greater efficiency.

Today, we are expanding our analytics to include a new report named Content Source Savings, which allows company administrators to understand the savings they are receiving from travelers booking NDC or other direct connection fares in Spotnana when the same fare is available via EDIFACT.  The report features high-level metrics on NDC/direct connection adoption and savings achieved when booking through NDC/direct connections, while offering the ability to drill down into detailed insights, such as savings by airline, route, and more. 

Within the Content Source Savings report, administrators can gain insight into:

• Cumulative NDC/direct connection spend and the number of NDC/direct connection bookings.
• The percentage of PNRs booked through NDC/direct connection channels, relative to the total number of PNRs.
• Like-for-like savings achieved when booking through NDC/direct connections, compared to EDIFACT fares for the exact same itinerary (same flight numbers, cabin classes, and fare rules).
• Number of bookings where like-for-like savings were achieved.
• The percentage of savings achieved by NDC/direct connections across all itineraries that were also available via EDIFACT.
• Like-for-like savings achieved over time. 
• Like-for-like savings per airline and by route.
• Detailed PNR level data.

It’s easy to compare savings between booking channels with our new report.

Reporting can be downloaded, filtered, and sorted in multiple ways to provide travel administrators with flexibility and control. 

While savings is one of the key benefits of our NDC and direct connections, it’s important to recognize that these integrations deliver value in many other ways as well. Where supported by the airline, Spotnana’s NDC and direct integrations also offer access to additional fares and ancillaries, personalized shopping experiences, improved disruption handling, the ability for travelers to be serviced by an airline or TMC with all parties kept in sync, and more. 

To learn more about working with Spotnana and gain access to many insightful reports like this, request a demo today.