BlocTrip connects airline seat inventory with tour operators through one API — dynamic contingents, transactional blocking and automated settlement. It runs as a layer on top of the airline's Offer & Order platform, not as a replacement for it.
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 from IATA studies on modern airline retailing and the industry transition to Offers and Orders.
Capacity is committed to a partner around a year before departure, long before any individual passenger exists. There is no shopper session to price against — the context is the partner's profile, route seasonality and historical materialization. Today that evaluation is experience-driven, with no automated price recommendation and little visibility of opportunity cost against retail demand.
A commitment is steered until departure through releases, top-ups and re-allocations, and the commercial outcome depends as much on steering quality as on the initial price. Today that steering runs on spreadsheets, files and email, so neither side holds an authoritative view of what is actually left — and releases come too late to be re-marketed.
Names, services and final records arrive late. Materialization, not booking, is the moment a commitment becomes concrete — and settlement follows partner logic rather than instant retail payment, reconstructed weeks later through proration and manual reconciliation.
A transactional shop–price–order flow models none of these three. That is why wholesale stayed on manual rails while retail moved on.
BlocTrip turns static allotment contracts into live, priced, steerable inventory — implemented natively on Offer & Order rather than retrofitted onto PNRs and EMDs. The commitment is managed here; the order is created in the airline's own platform when the booking materializes.
Fix, pro-rata and pooling models held as first-class objects with a lifetime: negotiated conditions, materialization rules, release and attrition logic — one harmonized process instead of per-carrier and per-market variants.
Result — the commitment becomes a managed object, not a spreadsheet row.
FIX · PRO-RATA · POOLING · PER-PARTNER TERMSStructured partner requests — contingents, groups and out-of-system requests — evaluated against availability, demand forecast, route context and partner history. Every commitment gets a price and capacity recommendation instead of a judgement call.
Result — revenue-management-grade evaluation on capacity priced by experience today.
STRUCTURED REQUESTS · GROUPS & OOS · PRICE RECOMMENDATIONSeats 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 COUNTSReleases, top-ups and re-allocations driven by live materialization data, with the opportunity cost of committed capacity visible against retail demand throughout the contract's lifetime.
Result — capacity reclaimed while it can still be sold.
RELEASES · TOP-UPS · RE-ALLOCATION · DEMAND FEEDBACKLate name delivery is handled as a lifecycle event: the order is created in the airline's platform when the booking materializes, carrying settlement values fixed at offer time. Claims clear through the IATA SwO standard without proration or dispute handling.
Result — 24–48h cash cycles, no dispute queues.
LATE MATERIALIZATION · IATA SwO · PRE-AGREED VALUESBaggage, 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 revenue connected directly to wholesale capacity.
PHASE 1 · SEATS + AIR ANCILLARIES — PHASE 2 · DESTINATION BUNDLINGNo offer and order platform publicly covers allotments, group commitments or tour-operator agreements. The standards describe transactional retailing — shop, price, order, fulfil — built around one customer session. A long-dated capacity commitment, steered for months and materializing late, is not a first-class citizen of any of them. BlocTrip closes that gap beside your platform, and every booking still becomes a standard order inside it.
Booking systems, reservation desks and retail sub-partners, consuming one interface across all connected carriers.
The wholesale semantics a retail stack does not model — held here, so your platform carries none of them.
Remains the system of record. Committed capacity is represented in your existing availability and stock logic; the order is created there when the booking materializes and names become concrete.
Revenue management, inventory and finance keep their existing interfaces, controls and reporting.
BlocTrip holds no fare-filing authority, no ticketing authority and no customer relationship. Pricing, capacity and release rules stay with the airline at all times.
The commitment layer replaces manual tooling beside your platform: one harmonized process, an API partner interface, orders created at materialization.
Commitments are modelled as long-dated, capacity-committed offers as platform capabilities allow, so allotment decisions run through the same commercial engine as retail.
Purchasable commitment products — capacity options, fix/flex blocks, pooling with dynamic release pricing — for partners ready to source dynamically.
Evaluation and materialization data feed back into revenue management from phase one, so the layer informs the offer engine instead of becoming a second silo beside it.
No content aggregation and no intermediation between you and your partners. BlocTrip adds no surcharge to your fares and carries no inventory of its own.
Offer construction, pricing and the order record stay in your systems. BlocTrip consumes them through published interfaces and writes back through the same.
BlocTrip never sells to travellers and never carries a consumer-facing brand. There is no channel conflict with your direct business.
Your commercial data stays yours. Nothing is resold, pooled across carriers or used for any secondary purpose.
Allotment 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, harmonized across the carriers in your group instead of per-market variants.
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.
A partner submits a 40-seat group request that falls outside any contracted contingent. It enters the same funnel: structured capture, evaluation against demand forecast and route context, a priced recommendation returned within the working day instead of a manual round trip across several desks. One process for contingents and groups, not two.
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 — with the same standards and the same order record.
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.
Why this cannot wait for the retail migration to finish: capacity for summer season N is contracted in autumn N−1, so any change to the commercial model needs at least one full partner planning cycle of lead time — realistically two. A model intended to carry the 2029 season has to be agreed in 2027. At the same time, every wholesale process still running on PNR-era rails has a clock on it: booking-class logic, PNR blocks and EMD flows retire with the transformation, and the tooling built on them retires with them. BlocTrip is designed to run alongside a platform programme rather than compete with it — the same standards, the same order record, a channel the retail roadmap does not reach.
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, integrated through standard interfaces with no impact on your platform roadmap.
For operators & DMCs — less dead inventory, tighter capacity planning, and automated reconciliation instead of manual settlement.