From Legacy Systems to Modern APIs: How NDC Is Reshaping Data Architecture in Airlines

IATA's NDC standard represents a fundamental shift in airline distribution, forcing data engineers to rebuild legacy infrastructure that has accumulated decades of technical debt. The transition from flat PNR formats to dynamic offer-based models requires rethinking data warehousing, schema design, and real-time API infrastructure. Organizations that fail to adapt their data architecture risk falling behind in an industry undergoing its most significant technological transformation in decades.