If you are an IATA agent, you can take the flight booking APIs (web services) from any of the leading GDS systems like Amadeus, Travelport or Sabre. But if you are Non IATA, then you should contract with third party flight API providers to get the access of flight data. Once you get the flight APIs access, hire a professional travel booking portal development company to integrate the flight APIs on your booking platform. Once the integration is done, you can proceed for live certification to make it live.
If you are an IATA agent, you can take the flight booking APIs (web services) from any of the leading GDS systems like Amadeus, Travelport or Sabre. But if you are Non IATA, then you should contract with third party flight API providers to get the access of flight data. Once you get the flight APIs access, hire a professional travel booking portal development company to integrate the flight API
In terms of most searched flight APIs providers - Amadeus, Travelport, Galileo, Expedia, TBO, Priceline and Travelomatix are leading the stock.
If you want a right on time deployment of your flight booking portal, it is better to go for dedicated flight API developers who work solely on airline API integration and live certification to deliver you faster results.
Yes. You can certainly replace existing airline APIs from our next-gen flight APIs suite for better inventory and pricing. Your tech team can easily do this in coordination with our API support team.
If you are going for third party flight API provider, you must look for IATA certified provider. Apart from live projects and test system, you must look for IATA certificate which is issued by International Air Transport Association.
In general, flight API development company should have -
- At-least 10 years of experience in travel domain and airline API integration.
- Must have deployed 100 OTA platforms.
- Should have a team of more than 200 programmers
- Should have clients in more than 15 countries
If you get all these criterias fulfilled, then it is safe to hire a flight API developer from that firm.