Building An Online Flight Booking Website: Challenges and Our Solution

Online Booking Site

Building An Online Flight Booking Website: Challenges and Our Solution

Online Booking Site

Building An Online Flight Booking Website: Challenges and Our Solution

Online Booking Site

Developing an online flight booking platform is no simple task. The learning curve for developers can be steep, especially when it comes to understanding the nuances of airline distribution, pricing logic, and fare rules.

Complex features—such as NDC integration, Multi GDS and UATP/NRCC support—require not only technical skill but also in-depth business domain knowledge. Successful implementation demands close coordination with travel agency stakeholders, GDS partners, and even airlines themselves.

To shorten time-to-market and reduce risks, we've developed SWIFT IBE—a flight booking engine to start the development of your flight booking website that includes all the essential capabilities as a foundation. This allows us to shift focus toward delivering high-quality UI/UX, sound implementation strategy, and advanced, business-specific features tailored to your needs.

SWIFT IBE: Evolving, Scalable, Feature-Rich

Here’s a snapshot of what SWIFT IBE currently supports:
  • GDS content integration with Sabre, Amadeus and Travelport
  • NDC content from Sabre and Amadeus
  • Multi GDS, multi PCC/OID search
  • Multi passenger types for fare search - student, labour, seaman
  • Progressive loading - reduce the time for first set of search result display
  • Support multiple result display model - by price, by schedule, by airline
  • Fare family display
  • Comprehensive search condition and filtering
  • UATP/NRCC
  • Private fare / negotiated fare activation
  • Search optimisation - control result by destinations
  • Markup
  • Calendar search
  • Payment gateway integration
  • Hold booking / delay payment
  • Seat selection
  • Carbon emission information
  • Ticketing eligibility rules
  • Control of last minute bookings and handling logic during non office hours
  • Blacklist / whitelist of airlines & destinations
  • Alert of connecting airport without baggage transfer
  • Travel document collection rule
  • Writing of PNR remarks according to travel agency requirements
  • Sabre Profile integration
  • Integration with existing website
  • Authentication with existing member login
  • Optional CRM integration
  • Optional Flight + Hotel bundle deals or dynamic Flight + Hotel package