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What the interview covers
The real cost of content fragmentation
The NDC schema has its limits. Stephanos walks through why TPConnects built a proprietary Express API from scratch, what the initial testing shows, and why response size is the metric that actually matters for shopping performance.
Express API and faster response times
The NDC schema has its limits. Stephanos walks through why TPConnects built a proprietary Express API from scratch, what the initial testing shows, and why response size is the metric that actually matters for shopping performance.
How API normalization actually works
Every airline returns the same data differently. Stefanos explains how Iris standardizes content across GDS, NDC, and LCC sources so travel agencies integrate once – and never have to touch it again when a new airline goes live.
Servicing beyond
the booking
Most aggregators handle the booking and stop there. Stefanos explains how Iris extends API capabilities into exchanges, refunds, schedule change notifications, and ancillary management – so agencies don’t need offline agents to service what they’ve booked.
Travel agencies today are integrating with GDSs, NDC airline portals, and LCC websites separately – maintaining each one, absorbing every schema change, managing every version upgrade. The development cost is real. The maintenance cost keeps growing. And every new airline means starting again. There is a different way to do this.
Stephanos Kykkotis
Director of Product, Travel Seller Solutions, TPConnects Technologies
Stephanos Kykkotis leads product for Iris at TPConnects, the air content aggregation platform connecting travel sellers to 60+ NDC, LCC, and GDS sources through a single normalized API. He has overseen Iris’s growth from a handful of airline integrations to one of the broadest content libraries available to travel agencies today and is currently leading the development of the Express API – TPConnects‘ proprietary schema built for speed and scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this interview for?
Travel agency owners, OTA product and technology leads, consolidator managers, and TMC operations teams who are either managing multiple content integrations today or evaluating a move to a normalized aggregation layer.
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Iris brings together 60+ NDC and low-cost carriers and all 4 major GDS providers into a single platform, with one normalized API and a servicing layer built to handle what happens after the booking.
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