Posted 1 March 2021 05:44 At CAPA Live on 10-Feb-2021, Qantas' head of distribution, Nadine Dawood Morgan, explained that the airline's NDC deployment had been paused due to the changed priorities as the pandemic upended operations. In Aug-2019, Qantas and Travelport enjoyed a key milestone in their NDC (New Distribution Capability) journeys, but that was in a very different environment. At that time, as a key part in its continuing support for Qantas’ NDC, Travelport began handling its first bookings with the Australian flag carrier using IATA’s NDC standard. This NDC connection to Qantas was a first by any GDS to the airline and enabled live bookings of NDC content to be made by selected agency partners taking part in the testing programme, ahead of a rollout to the wider agency community in subsequent months.