BlocTrip connects airline seat inventory with tour operators through one API — dynamic contingents, transactional blocking and automated settlement, built on IATA's Offer & Order standards.
Built on NDC 24.1 · ONE Order · Settlement with Orders
| Route | Allotted | Sold | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRA–PMI | 150 | 114 | ON TRACK |
| MUC–HER | 120 | 77 | ON TRACK |
| DUS–AYT | 90 | 34 | RELEASE 12 AUG |
| ZRH–LPA | 80 | 70 | ON TRACK |
Demo view — live data is available to design partners.
Airlines are moving to Offers and Orders on a fixed industry timeline. The seat contingents behind Europe's package travel — a channel worth billions in annual volume — still run on annual contracts and manual reconciliation.
Figures based on IATA transition studies and industry analyses (BCG, Roland Berger), 2025.
Contingents are negotiated once a year and rarely match actual demand. Operators carry seats they cannot sell; airlines cannot reclaim them in time to re-market the capacity.
Allotment status is exchanged by email and spreadsheet. Neither side has an authoritative, current view of remaining capacity — releases come too late to be commercially useful.
Proration disputes, per-invoice reconciliation and month-end closings tie up finance teams on both sides — work that IATA's Settlement with Orders standard has already made unnecessary.
BlocTrip turns static allotment contracts into live, priced, settleable inventory — implemented natively on Offer & Order rather than retrofitted onto PNRs and EMDs.
Airlines publish contingents per partner, route and season. Volumes and prices adjust to demand signals — weekly or monthly cycles replace annual planning. Operators consume availability directly in their booking systems.
Result — fewer unsold contingents, capacity aligned with actual demand.
PUSH & PULL API · PER-PARTNER POOLS · RELEASE RULESSeats are held only for the duration of a live transaction. Timed holds expire and return to the pool automatically; confirmed bookings decrement the contingent.
Result — structurally no overbooking against wholesale pools.
TIMED HOLDS · AUTOMATIC RELEASE · AUTHORITATIVE COUNTSEvery booking is an order carrying pre-agreed settlement values — base fare, surcharges, commissions — fixed at offer time. Claims clear through the IATA SwO standard without proration or dispute handling.
Result — 24–48h cash cycles, no dispute queues.
IATA SwO · PRE-AGREED VALUES · 24–48H CYCLESBaggage, seating and further services attach to the same order as separate line items, each with its own settlement value. Phase one covers seat contingents and airline ancillaries; destination bundling — hotels, transfers, activities on partner inventory — follows as a separate module.
Result — ancillary and package revenue connected directly to wholesale capacity.
PHASE 1 · SEATS + AIR ANCILLARIES — PHASE 2 · DESTINATION BUNDLINGAllotment distribution only modernizes if both sides move. BlocTrip gives airlines a managed wholesale channel and gives operators live inventory with an automated back office.
A wholesale channel under revenue-management control.
FOR DISTRIBUTION · REVENUE MANAGEMENT · FINANCE
Per partner, route and season — with rules for release dates, attrition and price validity.
Seat counts and prices follow your RM signals. Late availability reaches partners directly, without intermediary surcharges.
Automatic release rules return unbooked seats to open inventory — days earlier than manual processes allow.
Pre-agreed order values clear via SwO. No proration engine, no dispute queue.
Demand-driven capacity instead of annual commitments.
FOR PRODUCT · YIELD · FINANCE
One REST API across participating carriers — no per-airline certification projects.
Remaining seats, current prices and release deadlines, inside your own booking environment.
Hold seats for the length of a customer transaction. Sub-allocate to retail partners with tiered pricing.
Ancillaries join the same order. Your finance system receives itemized, settled positions.
| Route | Remaining | Price | Release |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRA–PMI | 36 | €189 | D−30 |
| MUC–HER | 43 | €175 | D−30 |
| DUS–AYT | 56 | €162 | D−21 |
Remaining seats, current prices and release deadlines — inside your own booking environment.
An airline publishes a 150-seat pool for May–October to one operator. Volumes and prices adjust weekly from revenue-management signals; unsold seats auto-release at D−30 back into open inventory. Bookings settle weekly via SwO — no annual contract, no year-end reconciliation.
Fourteen days out, 40 unsold seats go to selected operators as a discounted, time-limited contingent — directly, without intermediary surcharges. The operator blocks, sells 28 into packages; the remainder auto-returns at D−7. Settlement values were fixed at offer time, so cash clears within 48 hours of departure.
An agent builds a package: the API returns live contingent availability, holds the seats for the length of the customer call, converts the hold to an order on confirmation — or releases it automatically. Finance receives an itemized position per order. No fixed-commitment gamble, no overbooking against the contingent.
Pilot case studies with design partners will be published here from 2027.
IATA's transition to 100% Offers and Orders is scheduled and funded at every major European carrier. The wholesale channel will move onto the same rails — the only question is whose.
Leading full-service and hybrid carriers operate core O&O capabilities. Early partners lock in the new distribution rails.
Interline, disruption and delivery move onto orders. Legacy PNR and EMD workflows begin sunsetting industry-wide.
Technical readiness across the industry. Distribution without orders becomes the exception — wholesale included.
Where the incumbents are heading: Europe's network carriers have committed to Offer & Order platforms for the direct retail channel — Amadeus Nevio, Sabre Mosaic, Accelya FLX ONE. The wholesale channel between airlines and tour operators is not on those roadmaps. BlocTrip occupies exactly that gap: allotment infrastructure, not another GDS. The window to establish it is 2026–2028 — starting with European carriers and the DACH tour-operating ecosystem.
Exact terms are agreed per partner during the pilot phase. The commercial structure is fixed and deliberately simple.
Annual fee per airline and per operator, tiered by volume and activated modules.
A small per-order fee on allotment bookings settled through BlocTrip — aligned with the value that clears over the platform.
One-time setup covering API integration, contingent-rule configuration and process mapping.
Current allotment processes, volumes and settlement flows
Contingent rules, API mapping and commercial terms
Selected routes and partners in live operation
Full-season contingents across the partner network
Design partners receive reduced fees throughout the pilot phase.
We are onboarding a limited group of airlines, tour operators and DMCs to shape the platform before general availability.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
3–5 European carriers — from ~100k annual allotment / group passengers, ideally with an active Offer & Order programme.
5–10 tour operators & DMCs — from ~50k annual passengers in seat contingents, DACH/CEE focus.
For airlines — less allotment overhang, faster settlement, and a wholesale proof of concept for your Offer & Order programme.
For operators & DMCs — less dead inventory, tighter capacity planning, and automated reconciliation instead of manual settlement.