Why GDS Integration Takes Months, and How to Cut This Time to Weeks

 A travel agency integration with GDS travel APIs is typically a journey of 10 months to a year, from the first intake form to a live production environment. As an Authorized Sabre Developer, we built on top of them enough times to know that firsthand. However, it’s totally feasible to reduce this 

AI SDLC: How Spec-Driven Development Helps AltexSoft Deliver Up to 10x Faster

 Becoming an AI-first company has helped AltexSoft accelerate delivery by 6-10 times on some projects, reducing feature time to market from months to days. Achieving that required changing how we work, including a major redesign of our software development lifecycle. In an AI-enabled SDLC, AI 

NDC Airlines List and Their Retailing Capabilities

 According to McKinsey research, enhanced retailing practices could generate up to $45 billion in additional airline industry value by 2030. Individual carriers could capture value equal to more than 2 to 3 percent of revenue, or around 15 percent of EBITDA. NDC is one of the key enablers of this 

Where AI Agents Will Beat Humans in Hospitality — and Where They Still Won’t

 In h2c’s 2025 AI & Automation in Hospitality study, 78 percent of hotel chains said they were already using AI, and 89 percent planned to expand AI applications over the next two years. The survey, however, does not clearly distinguish between traditional AI, generative AI, and agentic AI. And 

How Fintech Companies Hire and Onboard Software Engineers

 Companies in the financial services industry must carefully assess software engineers for their technical skills and readiness to thrive under the sector’s unique constraints and requirements. This article explains how fintech companies evaluate candidates and what qualifications they look for, 

Our Experience Using Context7 MCP Server for Agentic Coding Workflows

 Whether it's vibe coding, AI-assisted engineering, or similar workflows, one issue people encounter when working with third-party libraries is ensuring that their AI coding tools are working with updated data, not stale information. Let's see how Context7 helps your AI systems get accurate, 

Insurance Technologies: 13 Disruptive Ideas to Change Insurance Companies with Telematics, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and APIs

 Have you ever tried to check your insurance claim status? It often requires several calls, some emails, or even a visit to an agent to get claim status details. A lack of web presence leads to lower customer satisfaction.
In recent 10 years, many insurance carriers have made significant 

The Good and the Bad of Claude Code and How It Compares to Cursor

 It's officially impossible to talk about vibe coding, AI-assisted engineering, or agentic coding—the terms keep multiplying—without mentioning Claude Code. It's one of the solutions that software engineers and nontechnical people are using to make (and break) all kinds of software. In this piece, 

Caching Strategies in OTAs: How to Return Results in Milliseconds

 Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) operate under relentless pressure to deliver near-instant search results—a key driver of user engagement and customer conversion. Behind every millisecond response for a weekend in Rome, Seoul, or Istanbul lies a complex technical challenge: how to balance the high 

Hospitality Industry: Sectors, Markets, and Trends

 Our overview covers key aspects of hospitality, such as market size, main sectors, and major trends influencing the industry. What is hospitality? Hospitality, in its broadest sense, refers to welcoming, accommodating, entertaining, and feeding travelers and local customers. The industry 

Insurance Document Automation: Reducing Manual Work, Errors, and Compliance Risk

 Insurers process millions of documents a year, and manual handling is not viable at scale. We explore how document automation works and how it helps reduce costs, processing time, and errors while staying compliant and not adding to the headcount. What is insurance document automation, and why is 

Cirium Explained: How Aviation Data Powers Travel, Operations, and Finance

 Every time a flight tracker updates an arrival time, an OTA pushes an automated gate-change alert, or a duty-of-care software flags a major storm that hits Chicago O'Hare and causes a delay for business travelers, aviation intelligence platform Cirium can be quietly working in the background. This 

Who Will Control Lodging Distribution in the Era of Agentic AI? 7 Questions Posed to Hospitality Experts

 Over the past two decades, lodging bookings have been largely dominated by Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), which control over 60 percent of distribution for independent hotels. But that position is now being challenged as generative AI models are poised to reshape how travelers discover and buy 

SunExpress CIO on GenAI Adoption in Aviation: "Waiting for Technology to Mature May Mean You’re Already Late"

 Airlines are now under growing pressure to prepare for an agentic AI future while still relying on legacy infrastructure that continues to power critical operations. SunExpress is one of the carriers actively experimenting with generative AI models across its workflows. We spoke with Mustafa 

How to Integrate with OPERA PMS: Explaining OPERA APIs and OPERA Hospitality Integration Platform

 OPERA by Oracle is a robust property management system for hotels of any size, enabling them to centralize control over all operations and deliver a better customer experience, both online and offline. OPERA's history began back in the 1970s when it was known as Micros. Throughout its history 

Semantic Search vs Vector Search in AI Systems

 When you come across the terms "semantic search" and "vector search," it's easy to assume they mean the same thing. While related, they are distinct; semantic search is a retrieval approach focused on intent-based retrieval, while vector search is one common mathematical index mechanism used to 

What Are Subagents When and Why to Use Them

What Are Subagents? When to Use Them and Why

 As AI agents take on more complex tasks, a single one may break down and produce poor results if handling large workloads. One way to prevent this is to split tasks and assign different parts to various systems, called subagents. But does adding more agents actually help, or does it only create 

How to Write Code Documentation: Examples, Types, Best Practices, and Tools

 Every developer has been there—staring at a codebase they wrote months ago, struggling to remember the reasoning behind certain decisions or how different components fit together. Few things are worse than looking at your own code later and not remembering what it does or how it works. A 

LCCs Go Corporate: APIs, Flexible Fares, and Premium Seats

 Do low-cost carriers and the business travel space belong to different worlds? Not entirely. Extra legroom, flexible fares, and a growing presence in corporate booking tools are no longer isolated experiments among LCCs. Taken together, these upgrades point to a structural shift: LCCs are 

Commissions, Incentives, and Fees: How Travel Agents Make Money (Datasheet)

 These infographics demonstrate the core revenue streams of travel agencies, identify who actually pays the reseller (the supplier, another intermediary, or the traveler), and provide estimates of amounts/ranges. To learn more, read our dedicated article on how travel agencies get paid. Commissions 

Building Cursor and Claude Code MCP Servers for Code Intelligence Platform

Building Cursor and Claude Code MCP Servers for a Code Intelligence Platform

 When we built Interlace, our code knowledge graph platform, we deliberately chose to skip the graphical interface entirely and build an MCP server instead, one that coding assistants could connect to directly. For a tool whose entire purpose is to give AI agents structured, persistent knowledge 

AI in Insurance Underwriting: Use Cases, Tools, and Challenges

 Insurance underwriting (the process of evaluating risk and determining policy pricing) has traditionally been driven by rules and expert judgment but is increasingly augmented by AI. This article explores how AI is transforming core underwriting tasks, including risk assessment, pricing, and 

AltexSoft Makes the 2026 Inc. 5000 for the 9th Consecutive Year, Ranking No. 4,087

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Meet AltexSoft at GBTA Convention 2026 and Get First Look at Our AI SDLC Changes

AI is changing the way we plan trips. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and other AI agents can already recommend destinations, build itineraries, and are starting to book hotels.

Can AI Kill Booking & Expedia?

AI is already changing how people search and book travel. In this video, we explore how agentic AI is reshaping online travel distribution and why the shift from the "Search Economy" to the "Answer Economy" is threatening the OTA business model.
We also break down MCP integrations, direct hotel connectivity, AI-powered booking flows, and who the real winners of this disruption may be.

Will AI Travel Agents Replace OTAs?

Why Your Agile Backlog is a Nightmare (And How to Fix It)

Is an overgrown backlog derailing your project? Learn how to prune outdated tasks and organize your "Product Garden" using proven prioritization techniques. This guide will help you streamline your workflow and ensure your team stays focused on delivering high-impact results every sprint.

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Why GDS Integration Takes Months, and How to Cut This Time to Weeks

SunExpress CIO on GenAI Adoption in Aviation: "Waiting for Technology to Mature May Mean You’re Already Late"