[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":60},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-the-flight-content-otas-cant-source-elsewhere":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"categories":6,"title":15,"excerpt":16,"date":17,"dateIso":18,"featuredOnProducts":19,"isFeatured":21,"author":22,"body":27,"mainImage":55,"thumbnail":57},"alnpMxEAACwASpFj","the-flight-content-otas-cant-source-elsewhere",[7,11],{"slug":8,"name":9,"subCategory":10},"stories","Customer Stories","TO & OTA",{"slug":12,"name":13,"subCategory":14},"travel-tech","Travel Tech","Insights","The flight content OTAs can't source elsewhere","Air Distribution enables OTAs to source exclusive flights","June 9, 2026","2026-06-09T00:00:00.000Z",[20],"Air",false,{"name":23,"role":24,"bio":25,"avatar":26},"Lucas Bertrand","VP of Sales","Lucas leads the team that connects partners with CitizenPlane Air, helping airlines, tour operators, and OTAs grow revenue","https://images.prismic.io/citizenplane/Hs3lzS2X-qfHBQpE_lucas-bertrand.jpeg?auto=format,compress",[28,31,33,36,38,40,42,45,47,49,51,53],{"type":29,"html":30},"paragraph","Most OTAs have solid coverage of widely-distributed scheduled content, and are actively working to deepen it with ancillaries, personalisation and post-booking automation. The differentiation is in exhaustivity: the flights that aren't on every platform. Charter allocations, tour operator seat blocks, unique airline capacity on routes that standard feeds don't reach. That's where the bookings with real margin sit.",{"type":29,"html":32},"CitizenPlane connects 1200 flight suppliers to OTAs around the globe. Exclusive inventory, competitive fares, and a single integration to manage it all.",{"type":34,"html":35},"heading","Inventory your competitors don't have",{"type":29,"html":37},"The most valuable content for an OTA isn't the flight every platform carries. It's the seat nobody else has, at the fare nobody else has.",{"type":29,"html":39},"\u003Cstrong>CitizenPlane's inventory includes charter programs, tour operator seat blocks, and unique airline capacity on routes where supply is limited and demand is real. \u003C/strong>Much of it isn't replicated on competing platforms. When a high-demand event creates a surge - a sport final, a festival, peak summer routes - \u003Cstrong>CitizenPlane's partner OTAs have access to seats their competitors don't.\u003C/strong>",{"type":29,"html":41},"Tour operator seat blocks add another layer. Unsold seats on scheduled routes, priced below standard fares, distributed as one-way segments : exactly the inventory OTAs need to compete on metasearch and build bundles.",{"type":43,"html":44},"image","\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.prismic.io/citizenplane/t9ONcygJVV5_yyGd_6a1962a45655d0f549434ca1_Flight%2520outbound%2520-3-.png?auto=format,compress\" alt=\"__wf_reserved_inherit\" loading=\"lazy\" />",{"type":34,"html":46},"One integration, one relationship",{"type":29,"html":48},"CitizenPlane connects via API and \u003Cstrong>supports the major aggregators - Travelfusion, Peakwork, Paxport, Aerohub - \u003C/strong>so adding CitizenPlane content doesn't mean building a new pipeline. For an OTA already running air shopping through one of those aggregators, it's a new content source on an existing setup, with no upfront cost.",{"type":29,"html":50},"\u003Cstrong>Post-booking works the same way. \u003C/strong>Schedule changes, refund requests, luggage queries: \u003Cstrong>one team handles it, 24/7,\u003C/strong> regardless of which airline or operator sits behind the booking. At volume, the operational simplicity compounds quickly.",{"type":29,"html":52},"\u003Cem>“In metasearch, you win on routes where nobody else has the seat — or nobody else has the fare. CitizenPlane gives us both, in one-way format, through one commercial relationship. It fits how we're built.” Marco Papagno, co-founder MicroSignals\u003C/em>",{"type":29,"html":54},"\u003Cstrong>Want to explore what CitizenPlane can add to your content portfolio? Let's talk.\u003C/strong>",{"url":56,"alt":15},"https://images.prismic.io/citizenplane/uiO3Mm7O69WY97it_Main-AirDistribution.png?auto=format,compress",{"url":58,"alt":59},"https://images.prismic.io/citizenplane/ZjSz_zgh4jx7-Byt_thumbnail-AirDistribution.png?auto=format,compress","",1789490213575]