API

Serves as the digital bridge that allows different travel systems to communicate, exchange data, and complete transactions in real time. Within travel operations and distribution, it is the technology layer through which booking platforms, tour operators, airlines, hotel chains, car rental companies, and destination management systems “talk” to one another. By standardising how information such…

transfer

A transfer in the context of airlines and aviation refers to the organised movement of passengers (and often their baggage) between different segments of a journey—most commonly from an arrival aircraft to a departure aircraft, or from an airport to a ground-based destination such as a hotel, conference venue, or cruise terminal. In the tourism…

hub

A hub is a strategic airport facility utilized by an airline as a central node within its route network. Serving as the focal point in the hub-and-spoke model, it consolidates passengers and cargo from various origin airports (the “spokes”) and redistributes them onto connecting flights, thereby optimizing aircraft utilization and operational efficiency. Hubs enable carriers…