ixigo and Amadeus sign travel distribution partnership

The collaboration will enable ixigo to integrate Amadeus' NDC and EDIFACT content, providing travelers with more choices and a seamless flight booking experience

SINGAPORE, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- India based online travel agency (OTA), ixigo, has partnered with Amadeus, a global leader in travel technology, to enhance its airline content offering. Through this collaboration, ixigo will integrate Amadeus' advanced EDIFACT and NDC content into its platform.

This integration will enable ixigo to provide travelers with greater choice, flexibility, and a seamless flight booking experience. By leveraging Amadeus' technology, ixigo will be able to enhance its travel offerings, introduce advanced post-booking services, and create a more comprehensive journey for users. This collaboration will also provide ixigo access to a broader range of travel options on a single platform, eliminating the need for costlier and less scalable alternatives.

Aloke Bajpai, Group CEO & Rajnish Kumar, Group Co-CEO, ixigo, said, "This is an important collaboration for our future plans, and we are immensely pleased to partner with Amadeus, a global leader in travel technology. At ixigo, we are continuously enhancing our flight offerings with new features and services to add more value for travelers. This collaboration will help us strengthen our airline content, providing users with a seamless, one-stop journey planning experience. With Amadeus' advanced technology solutions combined with our focus on usability & customer experience, we are confident of gaining more momentum for our flights business."

Javier Laforgue, Executive Vice President, Travel Unit & Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Amadeus said, "India is seeing a new golden age of travel, and we are proud to work alongside one of the nation's fastest growing online travel businesses to capture this momentum. NDC continues to gain traction, offering access to the tailored, end-to-end experiences travelers have come to expect. We are delighted to further accelerate this process of adoption through our partnership with ixigo."

Sandeep Dwivedi, Managing Director - Travel Sellers, India and the Subcontinent, Amadeus said, "We look forward to working hand in hand with ixigo to expand its airline content and to help the OTA leverage Amadeus' cutting-edge technology to scale its flight business rapidly. It's an exciting time in India for the travel industry and we are at the forefront of the technology that will power the nation's expansion. Having well-established partners like ixigo will help Amadeus grow its footprint in the market and most importantly, help deliver better travel experiences to travelers."

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About Amadeus

Amadeus makes the experience of travel better for everyone, everywhere by inspiring innovation, partnerships and responsibility to people, places and planet.

Our technology powers the travel and tourism industry. Inspiring more open ways of working. More connected ways of thinking, centered around the traveler. Our open platform connects the global travel and hospitality ecosystem. From startups to big industry players and governments too. Together, redesigning the travel of tomorrow.

We are working to make travel a force for social and environmental good. A collective responsibility to protect and improve the people and places we visit, ensuring travel continues to make positive contribution to our world.

We apply innovation to meet new needs, to solve real challenges. Our truly diverse global workforce, made up of 150 nationalities, is passionate about travel and technology.

We are an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. We have also been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last 13 years.

Amadeus. It's how travel works better.

Learn more about Amadeus at www.amadeus.com.

About ixigo (NSE: IXIGO, BSE: 544192)

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) is a technology company focused on empowering Indian travellers to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses and hotels. ixigo assists travellers in making smarter travel decisions by leveraging artificial intelligence. The ixigo, ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus apps allow travellers to book train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, hotels, and cabs, and provide travel utility tools and services developed using in-house proprietary algorithms and crowd-sourced information. With over 48 crore Annual Active Users in Fiscal 2024, ixigo is the leading OTA for Next Billion Users in India. For more information, please visit http://www.ixigo.com

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