BCD Travel partners with American Airlines to drive NDC adoption to new highs

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2026 – BCD has maintained a high percentage of NDC bookings and is a leader in adoption of American Airlines NDC. The TMC has established itself as a key partner in advancing NDC adoption and modern retailing for corporate travelers.

BCD ensures corporate clients can access airline content seamlessly across multiple sources, helping organizations shop, book and service travel with confidence while benefiting from the latest offers and servicing options available through NDC. The company’s approach underscores its commitment to provide all relevant content through trusted channels and technology partners.

“BCD is delighted with our reinvigorated partnership on NDC with American Airlines,” said Thane Jackson, senior vice president of Supplier Management and Delivery at BCD. “Our work together reinforces our goal of making NDC content more reliable, scalable and offering the best content for our customers in the channel they choose. We’re looking forward to solving further challenges and driving even higher adoption of NDC.”

“American is pleased with BCD’s NDC development and we are looking forward to partnering with them as they continue to expand their capabilities,” said Neil Geurin, Vice President of Global Sales at American Airlines.

Both companies are embracing NDC as an industry advancement and are committed to helping corporate customers unlock more benefits while maintaining program integrity, duty of care and service excellence globally.

BCD is uniquely positioned to offer NDC content at scale through its open travel platform. With a focus on choice, BCD distributes multi-source content via direct connects, the GDS, hotel aggregators, low-cost carriers, Trainline and the BCD Private Channel. Its rules-based commerce capabilities provide a tailored shopping and booking experience for each program, across all points-of-sale.