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What the interview covers
The NDC version problem,
explained
From 15.2 to 25.2, discover how schema fragmentation increases IT overhead, extends version maintenance cycles, and slows airlines’ ability to deliver new capabilities and reach the market faster.
Airline architecture in
an AI-native world
How Astra’s modular MCP design handles pricing logic, scheduling, and rules orchestration – and why that matters for airlines thinking about long-term distribution strategy.
How MCP sits above
the NDC layer
Not a replacement for NDC, a complement to it. How TPConnects built a standardized MCP server on top of the fragmented NDC layer – and what that means for integration complexity.
From vendor lock-in
to plug-and-play
What changes when switching vendors means changing an endpoint rather than rebuilding an integration – and how MCP’s common authentication protocol makes that possible.
Communicating is going to be easier in all the different layers of the platform, and MCP will empower you to expand faster with an easier distribution. And it is going to change the world for sure.
Praveen Kumar
CTO & Co–Founder, TPConnects Technologies
Praveen Kumar is the CTO and Co-Founder of TPConnects, where he leads the engineering and product architecture behind Astra, the airline retailing platform, and Iris, the travel seller aggregation layer. He is the architect behind TPConnects’ MCP layer – a project that started as a proof of concept at AWS Summit and has since become the foundation of the company’s AI distribution strategy.
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Who is this interview for?
Airline IT directors, heads of distribution, and commercial teams who want to understand what MCP means in practice – and where NDC integration is heading.
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What if I have questions after watching the interview?
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