One stack, every major GDS. Connect Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport (Galileo / Worldspan) plus LCC content through our Universal API Suite - no separate integrations to maintain.
Excellent GDS API integration for travel businesses sits at the intersection of supplier connectivity, distribution and the operational tools your team actually uses every day. One stack, every major GDS. Connect Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport (Galileo / Worldspan) plus LCC content through our Universal API Suite - no separate integrations to maintain.
adivaha® powers more than 2,400 travel brands across 120+ countries, with engineering teams in India and Europe and 200+ pre-integrated supplier connections. We are an Amadeus Global CAP Licence holder and ISO 9001:2015 certified. The platform you read about on this page sits inside the same connected core that powers booking engines, agent portals, mobile apps, gift cards, loyalty programs and AI automations across every product line we ship.
This page is part of adivaha®’s broader travel-tech catalogue covering flights, hotels, holiday packages, transfers, activities, gift cards, loyalty, corporate travel, mobile apps and AI automations. Customers typically start with one product and layer on the rest as they grow - everything sits on the same supplier pool, the same payment rails, the same customer wallet and the same audit log so adding a new module never means a re-platform.
End-to-end integration of supplier APIs into your existing website, mobile app or CRM, with QA, sandbox and production rollout. The platform is built for the operational reality of travel - cancellations, refunds, credit shells, supplier reconfirmations, multi-currency settlement, GST on commission vs principal sales, ADM/ACM handling - all of it modelled as first-class concepts rather than afterthoughts. That’s the difference between travel-tech that scales and a generic SaaS product retrofitted for travel.
Most adivaha® customers go from contract to first production booking in 2-3 weeks. The path is short because the hard parts are already done: supplier credentials are pre-provisioned, the booking flow is tested end-to-end, payment gateways are integrated, and the white-label theming sits behind a config flag. Your team focuses on the parts that are actually unique to your business - brand, audience, market positioning, supplier contracts - instead of rebuilding a booking engine from scratch.
Beyond the speed-to-launch advantage, customers stay on adivaha® because the platform compounds. Every supplier we add, every payment rail we wire in, every AI capability we ship lands automatically for everyone on the platform - not as a paid upgrade, not behind an enterprise tier. The roadmap moves the entire customer base forward together. That’s how a small agency in 2023 ends up with the same supplier coverage as a multi-country OTA in 2026 without ever touching the integration code themselves.
The architecture, the integration approach and the operational model behind every production deployment.
A 200+ supplier pool sits behind a single, normalised contract. Search results stream back from parallel calls so users see partial results immediately rather than waiting for the slowest provider. When a supplier ships a breaking change - an NDC update, a rate-plan reorganisation, a deprecated endpoint - we absorb it in our adapter layer so your code never has to.
Your domain, logo, colours and store-listing copy are wired in by our delivery team. The white-label storefront ships in 2-3 weeks for most customers. Custom UI work or unusual payment requirements may extend the timeline, but we’ll be upfront about exactly what changes the schedule.
Run a customer-facing site and a B2B agent portal from one platform with role-based access, separate fare displays for retail and trade, KYC for sub-agents, commission tiers and credit-shell management. Markups apply per supplier, per product, per agent, per market - with stacking rules and override priority.
Cards, UPI, wallets, BNPL and FX flow through the same checkout. adivaha Pay reconciles transactions automatically against bookings; one escrow covers every supplier so the customer payment, your markup and the supplier cost are tracked in a single ledger. UPI integration ships out of the box for Indian markets.
Conversational booking assistants, support auto-resolution, invoice generation and anomaly alerts run on top of adivaha AI. Every AI action that touches money, contracts or customers waits for human sign-off, and every action is logged with full audit trail. PII is redacted at the edge before reaching any LLM.
Native mobile apps on iOS and Android share the same backend. Public REST APIs expose everything the storefront uses, with OpenAPI 3.1 specs, Postman collections, SDKs in five languages and HMAC-signed webhooks for booking and refund events.
The features that look small on a demo but compound into real margin advantage when you’re running production traffic month after month.
We map your existing flows against the supplier API and design a clean adapter layer.
Why it matters: Without this you’d be paying engineering or operations cost every month to do the same work manually - a hidden tax that grows with your booking volume. The platform absorbs that cost so your team doesn’t have to.
Full sandbox build with test data before going live.
Why it matters: This is the kind of feature most platforms charge as an enterprise add-on. It ships standard with adivaha® because it’s how a real travel business actually operates.
Phased rollout with feature flags and monitoring on day one.
Why it matters: Customers who lean on this consistently outperform peers on conversion, supplier mix and reconciliation accuracy. The compounding shows up in margin within a quarter or two.
Bug-fixes, supplier change-handling and monitoring included for the first 90 days.
Why it matters: It’s built around an open contract, so you can extend it without waiting for a vendor release cycle. When your business shifts, the platform shifts with you.
API contracts stay supported for at least 12 months after the next major version ships. Suppliers churn, regulations change, but your code keeps working.
Why it matters: The audit trail and rollback story make it safe to use even on money-affecting flows. Compliance teams love it; finance teams stop double-checking exports.
Logs, traces, latency, error rates and rate-limit usage available per API key, per environment. No more guessing why a request failed yesterday.
Why it matters: It scales linearly with traffic - no surprise re-architecture when you 10x volume. The same API call that works at 100 RPS works at 1000 RPS.
Specialist coverage for the verticals where adivaha customers operate today, from inbound DMCs to corporate self-booking tools.
GDS, NDC and LCC content unified into one normalised search response. Sub-second median latency, smart caching and parallel calls so the slowest supplier doesn’t bottleneck checkout.
Aggregate API hotel inventory with your contracted properties through the mapping engine. Duplicates collapse, cheapest rate wins, your markups apply automatically.
Airport, intercity and chauffeur transfers with vehicle/driver allocation and a live ops console for day-of dispatch. Bookable inline with hotel or flight reservations.
Curated tours, attractions, day trips and tickets with QR voucher fulfilment. Sell standalone or bundled into dynamic packages.
Earn-and-burn points engine with tiers, expiry rules, multiplier campaigns and a built-in reward catalogue across travel and retail.
Native iOS and Android apps with biometric login, Apple/Google Pay, push notifications and offline itineraries. One backend powers web and mobile.
Most launches follow this exact rhythm. Use it to plan internal communications, marketing campaigns and team capacity around your launch date.
Contract signed, kickoff call scheduled, your dedicated success manager and a delivery engineer are assigned. You’ll have everyone’s direct contact details before the day ends.
Sandbox keys live within 24 hours of kickoff. Branding assets, supplier credentials and payment gateway details collected. Your team begins integration work in parallel with our delivery work.
White-label storefront branded and themed. Suppliers wired in and tested in sandbox. Payment gateway connected. Markup rules and agent tiers configured. The portal looks and behaves like yours.
UAT runs on a near-production environment with real supplier sandboxes. Soft launch to a controlled audience or a small set of sub-agents. Full launch follows once the soft-launch metrics look right.
Production support handover, monitoring dashboards live, success manager checks in weekly for the first month. Layer on AI, mobile apps and additional APIs as your traffic grows.
Building it yourself looks cheaper on Day 1 and starts looking expensive by Quarter 3. Here’s why almost every team eventually moves to a platform.
The seductive part of building your own travel platform is that the initial scope feels containable. You need flight search, hotel search, a checkout flow and a booking confirmation page. Estimate three engineers for six months and you have an MVP. The trap is that the MVP isn’t the expensive part. The expensive part is the next eighteen months of maintaining supplier connections, handling regulatory changes, supporting refunds and cancellations across edge cases, and answering customer questions about why their voucher hasn’t arrived.
Travel-tech operations cost scales linearly with booking volume on a homegrown stack. Every new supplier is an integration project. Every regulatory change in a new market is a code release. Every booking edge case eventually becomes a finance reconciliation ticket. Your engineering team becomes a maintenance team. Your roadmap stops being about competitive features and starts being about keeping the lights on. Six quarters in, the calculation that made build-it-yourself look attractive has completely flipped.
A purpose-built platform changes the calculation by socialising those operational costs across hundreds of customers. The supplier integration we did last year benefits every customer who needs that supplier this year. The regulatory patch we shipped to handle a new tax regime applies to every customer in that market. The fraud rule we tuned based on patterns across 50 million API calls is available to every customer the day we ship it. None of that is true on a homegrown stack.
adivaha® runs the platform as a continuously improving asset on behalf of our customers. Releases land monthly. Supplier coverage grows quarterly. Compliance updates ship as soon as the regulator publishes them. Your team focuses on the parts of your business that are actually unique to your customers - brand, audience, market positioning, supplier negotiations - rather than the parts that look the same as every other travel business’s plumbing.
Where customers focus their first 90 days - the mix that matches your existing audience and supplier relationships usually wins.
Start with flight search and ticketing. GDS, NDC and LCC content unified. Add hotels and packages once flight volume justifies the supplier overhead. Common for OTAs targeting business travelers.
Open with hotel inventory aggregation across API bedbanks plus your own contracted properties. Add transfers and activities to lift average order value. Common for DMCs and inbound tour operators.
Launch a gift card or loyalty program first to build a wallet-attached customer base, then layer travel products as customers come back to redeem. Common for retail brands moving into travel adjacencies.
Your starting mix isn’t a one-way door. Customers commonly start flight-led and add hotels in the second quarter. Hotel-led customers add transfers and activities to lift basket size. Loyalty-led customers eventually become full multi-product OTAs. The platform handles the expansion path without re-platforming.
Security and compliance treated as platform-level concerns, not individual customer add-ons. The standards your CISO will ask about, ready before they ask.
Security at adivaha® starts at the architecture level. The platform is multi-tenant by design with strong row-level isolation at the PostgreSQL primary, encrypted at rest and in transit. Customer data lives only in the tenant it belongs to. Payment information flows through PCI-compliant tokenisation layers and never reaches our infrastructure in raw form. Webhook payloads are HMAC-signed so your receivers can verify authenticity before processing.
Application-level security follows OWASP guidelines as a baseline, with annual third-party penetration tests audited for findings and remediation. Granular role-based access control lets you slice permissions per module, per action and per data scope. SSO via SAML or OIDC is available on enterprise plans. Every change to your data is logged with attribution - who did what, from which IP, at what time - with the audit log retained for the duration of your contract.
For the regulatory side, we support GDPR, India’s DPDP Act and equivalent regional frameworks across the markets we serve. Personal traveler data is collected for the minimum necessary purpose, retained only for the necessary duration, and never used for upstream model training in our AI features. Combined with our Amadeus CAP Licence, ISO 9001:2015 and 99.9% uptime SLA, the credential package is what most enterprise procurement teams expect to see before they sign.
The platform-level choices that look small at evaluation time and pay back over years of running production traffic.
1. A normalised search response across every supplier. Whether the result comes from Amadeus, Sabre, an LCC partner or a hotel bedbank, your storefront sees the same shape. No supplier-specific code paths in your app, no edge cases you discover only when a new supplier ships a different format.
2. Idempotent booking confirmations from Day 1. Double-clicks, network retries and webhook redelivery never create duplicate tickets. Booking IDs are deterministic on the server. Your reconciliation always matches your customer-facing confirmations - even when something glitches mid-transaction.
3. Audit logs on every change, attributable to a user or token. Compliance teams stop asking for special exports. Disputes get resolved with the actual record of what happened. The audit log is part of the platform, not a paid add-on bolted on for enterprise customers.
4. Webhook delivery with retries, signatures and dead-letter queue. When your endpoint goes down, our retries don’t lose events. When you finally come back online, we replay the queue. HMAC signatures let you verify every payload is genuine before processing.
5. Sandbox identical to production at the code level. Not a stripped-down preview environment. Same code, same logic, same edge-case behaviour - only with test supplier credentials and isolated payment routing. What you build in sandbox works in production unchanged.
A Global Distribution System (GDS) is the back-end network that aggregates inventory from airlines, hotels and car-rental suppliers and sells it to travel agencies. The big three are Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport (which owns Galileo and Worldspan).
For an OTA or agency, GDS integration means access to global flight and hotel inventory at competitive fares. But integrating with each GDS is a months-long project - different protocols, different fare rules, different ticketing flows. adivaha® gives you all three through one consistent API.
Global CAP Licence holder. Flights, hotels, cars, NDC where available, ticketing and refunds.
Sabre Red 360, GetThere, Sabre APIs - with NDC, ticketing, voids and refunds.
Galileo / Worldspan content with full PNR management, ticketing and ARC reporting.
Direct connect to LCCs (IndiGo, AirAsia, Wizz, etc.) where GDS coverage is incomplete.
Modern fare rules, branded fares and ancillaries via NDC level 3+ certified airlines.
Switch PCCs and IATA agencies per market or supplier inside the same booking flow.
Each GDS speaks its own dialect. adivaha® normalises them into a single REST API, so your booking flow, fare rules display and post-booking ops all work the same regardless of supplier.
Bring your own GDS account or we help you secure one. PCC, IATA and pseudo-city codes set up.
Run end-to-end test bookings against the GDS sandbox - search, hold, ticket, void, refund.
Switch to live PCC, configure fare rules display and mark-ups.
Per-key logs, latency monitoring and fare-cache tuning to keep search costs in check.
Detailed dive into each major GDS and OTA partner.
GDS systems trace back to American Airlines' SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) in the 1960s, originally built to manage airline reservations. By the 1970s and 80s, similar systems emerged across the industry: Amadeus (joint venture of Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa and SAS), Galileo (United Airlines), Worldspan (Delta, Northwest, TWA) and Apollo (United). Through consolidation and acquisition, today's landscape has settled into three dominant GDSes: Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport (which owns Galileo and Worldspan).
These three GDSes collectively process the majority of all global airline tickets sold through travel agencies. They aggregate inventory from 400+ airlines, 700,000+ hotels, 30+ car-rental brands and most major tour operators. For travel agencies, GDS access is fundamentally what differentiates a "real" agency from a referral site - GDS connectivity gives you live inventory, real fares, ticketing capability and direct settlement through BSP / ARC.
But GDS access is not free or easy. Each GDS requires a contract, typically with minimum monthly transaction volumes, segment fees, productivity bonuses and ongoing reporting obligations. Each has its own technical protocol (Amadeus uses CRYPTIC for legacy and SOAP/REST for modern; Sabre uses Sabre Web Services; Travelport uses uAPI). Each has its own functional surface - what works in Amadeus might not work the same way in Sabre.
adivaha's GDS Integration layer abstracts all this complexity. We hold the Amadeus Global CAP Licence (one of very few non-airline holders globally), maintain certified Sabre and Travelport integrations, and expose a single normalised REST API to your application. You build once against adivaha's API; we route requests to the optimal GDS per booking, handle multi-PCC routing for cost optimisation, normalise fare rules across GDSes and manage the ticketing / void / refund workflows. The complexity stays with us; you focus on building your customer experience.
NDC (New Distribution Capability) is IATA's standard for modern airline distribution. Launched in 2015, it replaces traditional GDS-mediated distribution with direct API connections between airlines and travel agencies, using XML-based messaging that supports rich content (branded fares, ancillaries, dynamic offers) that traditional GDS protocols can't carry well.
The promise of NDC is simple: airlines control their content fully, can offer richer fare types and ancillaries, and reduce GDS-segment fees. The reality is more nuanced. As of 2026, major airlines (Lufthansa, British Airways, American Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Qatar, Emirates, Etihad, Air France, Iberia, Air Canada and several others) offer NDC content alongside traditional GDS content. Coverage is meaningful but uneven - some routes get NDC-only fares (often discounted), some routes are NDC-and-GDS, some remain GDS-only.
For travel agencies, this means content fragmentation. To offer the best fares, you need access to GDS content (broadest coverage, mature ticketing flows) AND NDC content (often cheapest fares, branded fares, ancillaries) AND LCC direct connect (low-cost carriers like IndiGo, AirAsia, Wizz that typically don't fully participate in GDS). adivaha's integration combines all three in a single API response, ranks them by total customer value (price + brand value + cancellation flexibility), and lets the customer pick.
The commercial implications are real. Some carriers offer 5-15% discount on NDC fares vs equivalent GDS fares, plus access to ancillaries (premium seats, extra baggage, lounge access) that aren't available via GDS. For an OTA running thousands of bookings per month, NDC adoption can lift gross margin 200-500 basis points - a meaningful number when net margins are typically 1-3%.
Open-jaw and multi-city itineraries (e.g., LAX-LHR, FCO-LAX) with optimal fare construction.
Free stopover routing where airline rules permit (e.g., Singapore Airlines through SIN, Emirates through DXB).
Mileage-based fare calc, surcharge logic, codeshare handling, fuel surcharge management.
Group-fare requests, named-pax confirmation, group ticketing flows.
NDC-powered branded fares (Light/Standard/Flex) with included ancillary breakdowns.
Auto-detect schedule changes; offer customer rebook / refund flows.
Display structured fare rules (cancellation, change, exchange, baggage) per fare.
Live seat maps with seat selection, premium-seat upsells and family-seating tools.
Full PNR retrieve, modify, void, refund, exchange and queue management.
Industry data from Amadeus, IATA and adivaha-customer averages.
Ideally yes - you bring your own PCC and we integrate it. We can also help you secure a GDS account and IATA accreditation if you don't have one yet (see <a href="/IATA-certificate-assistance.html">IATA assistance</a>). For agencies in the early stages, we offer access via our shared CAP Licence (Amadeus only) for a transition period.
We support NDC content where airlines have certified it via Amadeus and Sabre. Coverage varies by airline and route - currently NDC certified airlines include Lufthansa, BA, AA, Singapore Airlines, Qatar, Emirates, Etihad, Air France, Iberia, Air Canada and several others. We surface NDC fares alongside GDS fares with proper branding and ancillary support.
Smart caching, fare-shopping rules and multi-PCC routing keep search-API costs predictable. Most clients see 60-80% cost reduction vs naive integration. Caching strategy: short-TTL caches for top routes, long-TTL caches for unusual routes, real-time fetch only at booking confirmation.
Yes. Many of our customers run Amadeus + Sabre simultaneously for redundancy and pricing optimisation. The platform handles routing automatically based on rules you configure (e.g., route Asian routes through Amadeus, Americas through Sabre, fallback to other GDS on error).
Full PNR management, ticketing, voids, refunds and exchange flows are built in across all three GDSes. Including queue handling for airline-initiated changes, BSP-period void cutoffs, refund-form auto-generation and ADM (Agency Debit Memo) tracking.
Yes - BSP (Billing and Settlement Plan) for IATA agencies in 175+ countries, plus ARC (Airlines Reporting Corporation) for US agencies. Auto-generated returns, ADM management and integrated <a href="/billing-invoicing-reporting.html">finance reporting</a>.
Direct connect to major LCCs (IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India Express, AirAsia, Scoot, Cebu Pacific, Wizz, Ryanair, easyJet, Allegiant) where GDS coverage is incomplete or commercially unfavourable. Same unified API - LCC fares appear alongside GDS fares.
Multi-PCC means having multiple PCC codes within one GDS (or across GDSes). Different PCCs may have different fare deals (e.g., a US-issued PCC has access to US-domestic fare deals; a Dubai-issued PCC has access to Middle-East deals). The platform routes searches to the PCC that offers the best fare for the route.
Yes - corporate-fare programs (negotiated rates between corporates and airlines) supported via GDS. Corporate booking codes, account codes and self-booking-tool integration. Pair with <a href="/corporate-management-tools.html">corporate management tools</a> for full TMC stack.
Per-PCC, per-route, per-airline analytics with sell-through rates, fare-mix trends, conversion funnels and ADM rates. Helps optimise GDS contract performance and renewal negotiations.
