1. What is Corey’s and AA’s vision in terms of distribution merchandising both short term and long term (3-5 yrs and 6-10 yrs) ? What does he/AA need to make it successful?
2. How is AA’s distribution strategy differ from others? Are there other models that AA is considering (including new ways to merchandise and sell ancillary services)? If so, how can ARC support that?
3. On the distribution continuum, where one side is a carrier that has no significant distribution changes to those carriers that fully adopt NDC, where does Corey’s vision fall? What is Corey’s take on the continuum? Does Corey think there is going to be a fracture of the distribution practices of today?
4. In terms alliance partners that implement the full NDC model, what changes will AA need to make to support them? Is there an impact to AA’s strategy due to changes in an alliance partner’s strategy?
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If you were building ARC (agency accreditation, billing, settlement, reporting, data etc.) from the ground up, what does ARC need to do to help you achieve AA’s distribution and merchandising needs?
6. How does Corey see ARC’s role in the future as being different from today? What should we keep doing? What is not being done that needs to happen?
7. Of all the IATA initiatives – NDC, OneOrder and New Gen ISS – which ones will be the most impactful on the way the industry does business?
8. What is the industry not working on from a distribution/settlement perspective that we should
2. How is AA’s distribution strategy differ from others? Are there other models that AA is considering (including new ways to merchandise and sell ancillary services)? If so, how can ARC support that?
3. On the distribution continuum, where one side is a carrier that has no significant distribution changes to those carriers that fully adopt NDC, where does Corey’s vision fall? What is Corey’s take on the continuum? Does Corey think there is going to be a fracture of the distribution practices of today?
4. In terms alliance partners that implement the full NDC model, what changes will AA need to make to support them? Is there an impact to AA’s strategy due to changes in an alliance partner’s strategy?
5. …show more content…
If you were building ARC (agency accreditation, billing, settlement, reporting, data etc.) from the ground up, what does ARC need to do to help you achieve AA’s distribution and merchandising needs?
6. How does Corey see ARC’s role in the future as being different from today? What should we keep doing? What is not being done that needs to happen?
7. Of all the IATA initiatives – NDC, OneOrder and New Gen ISS – which ones will be the most impactful on the way the industry does business?
8. What is the industry not working on from a distribution/settlement perspective that we should