United Airlines and Travelport Announce Long Term Strategic Partnership
- Joe Breitfeller
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United Airlines has today announced the launch of a long-term strategic relationship with Travelport to advance modern airline retailing.
On Tuesday (December 2, 2025), United Airlines announced the launch of a new strategic partnership with Travelport with the aim of creating a new model of collaboration between an airline and a multi-source content provider. This marks a major evolution from the traditional airline-distributor relationship, with teams from both companies working closely together to enable new capabilities and functionality for agency and corporate buying communities. Under this collaboration, Travelport will gain early access to United’s NDC technology roadmap and co-development opportunities, helping to ensure travel counselors benefit from the most sophisticated merchandising tools in the marketplace.
In Tuesday’s announcement, United Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer, Andrew Nocella, said,
“Our new model for cooperation with Travelport helps ensure that United’s travel agencies and corporate buyers benefit from the most innovative retail travel solutions available. Together, we're setting a new standard for transparency, flexibility, and value in air travel distribution.”
Also commenting on the new collaboration, Travelport’s CEO, Greg Webb, added,
“This long-term relationship with United Airlines marks a major milestone in accelerating airline retailing for agencies and corporations. By combining United's advanced NDC capabilities with Travelport's next-generation platform, we're delivering richer content, better service solutions, and more choice for all our customers worldwide.”
United Airlines and Travelport will also work together on a deeper level of technical collaboration than traditional airline-distributor relationships, with dedicated development resources focused on creating new capabilities specifically for Travelport+, a modern retailing platform built for travel agencies that provides an all-in-one solution with faster search, better content, and built-in automation.
Through Travelport+, the relationship will accelerate the deployment of new features and functionality to travel agencies and corporate buyers. Additionally, United will bring their portfolio of Online Booking Tool (OBT) extras to Travelport's Deem OBT platform. Over time, this will introduce several new capabilities, including the ability to pool unused United travel credits, directly enroll in the United MileagePlus® loyalty program, use United Jetstream amenity funds as a form-of-payment for ancillary purchases, and more.
Source: United Airlines/PRNewswire
