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 shift. It supports the move toward order-based commerce and helps airlines bring richer, more personalized offers into modern indirect channels —  from aggregators to OTAs, TMCs, and corporate booking tools. That is why carriers continue investing in NDC, with more airlines joining the ecosystem and existing participants expanding their verified capabilities.

At AltexSoft, we’ve been tracking NDC progress for years — not only as observers, but also as active participants. We work directly with travel companies on airline content integration, helping them broaden their product assortment and modernize shopping, booking, and servicing workflows.

As part of this activity, last year we published an NDC datasheet based on the Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM) index registry by IATA — the only centralized source of information on airline retailing capabilities. It gave us a useful baseline for understanding where carriers stood with NDC adoption.

But the ARM registry tells only part of the story. Not all NDC-enabled airlines verify their retailing functionality through IATA, and some that do participate may not update their profiles regularly. So this year, we went further.

For the 2026 update, we expanded our research beyond ARM data and contacted more than 80 airlines directly to collect current capability information. Over 30 carriers responded. For airlines that did not provide input, we relied on the latest available data from the ARM registry.

As a result, the updated datasheet now covers 82 airlines, up from 75 last year. We added nine new carriers to the tracking set and identified two that no longer appear in the 2026 table.

The progress is concentrated in two areas.

Airlines are expanding the breadth of verified NDC capabilities. The strongest growth is increasingly visible in payments and order servicing—the areas that make NDC usable across the full booking lifecycle, beyond search and booking.

More carriers are moving to newer schemas. This shows that airlines are modernizing the foundation that supports more advanced retailing workflows.

How to use the datasheet:

• Right-click on images to open them in a new tab.
• Left-click on the Download Infographic button in the upper right corner to access the full version of the datasheet.
• Go to the spreadsheet at the very end of the article, which contains the same information as the full datasheet.

The full datasheet covers 82 airlines, the NDC schema versions they use, the NDC functionality confirmed by IATA or airlines themselves, and stats that inform the retailing maturity across carriers and the progress shown from the last year.