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AirGateway MCP: NDC fares in Claude and ChatGPT

Connect Claude or ChatGPT to AirGateway: the airlines' own NDC flight fares on your own IATA number, in the same search as Amadeus or Galileo.
By Tine D.

An AirGateway MCP server lets Claude or ChatGPT search the airlines' own NDC fares on your agency's own IATA number. GateRoam is one. It connects your agents' AI assistant to AirGateway, an NDC and low-cost aggregator, and to your Amadeus or Travelport+ (Galileo) office in the same search. Your agents ask in plain words and get GDS and NDC fares in one list, confirmed prices, holds where the airline allows them, and a branded client offer.

What is AirGateway?

AirGateway is a Berlin company that connects travel agencies to airlines' NDC and low-cost content. Its providers page lists "40+ NDC and LCC airlines" (AirGateway), and its agency page says bookings are made "under your IATA/PCC, and recorded in your BSP" (AirGateway). Agencies book and service those orders in BookingPad, AirGateway's booking tool; software like GateRoam connects through AirGateway's API.

NDC is the airlines' own way of selling: the airline builds the offer itself instead of the GDS assembling it from filed fares. The longer version: What is NDC? Explained for travel agencies.

Why add AirGateway next to Amadeus or Galileo?

Because some of the best fares are no longer in the GDS. Airlines put their own bundles in NDC, and some charge extra on GDS bookings: since 5 May 2026 Lufthansa Group charges $22 (€19) per ticket booked through Amadeus, while its NDC programme "offers a significantly lower fee" (Travel Market Report, 6 April 2026). AirGateway's own pricing page promises "Net NDC prices without GDS surcharges" (AirGateway).

Your GDS is still the base. It sells every airline it carries, the regional ones included. AirGateway adds what it doesn't: the airlines' NDC fares, and low-cost airlines as AirGateway adds them to its API. How the two fit, with hotels on top: Cover every flight: GDS, NDC and low-cost in one search.

What can the AI do with AirGateway through GateRoam?

With your agency's AirGateway account connected, every colleague's assistant can:

  • search flights in one go across your GDS and AirGateway. Each option is marked with its system, and AirGateway adds its fares on the exact dates and airports you ask. With no GDS connected, AirGateway searches on its own, flexible dates and nearby airports included;
  • confirm prices of the options you shortlist, straight from the airline, with the bags and the change and refund conditions it sends;
  • turn the options you pick into a branded client offer: a web page, copy-paste text and a PDF, GDS and NDC options side by side.

From the GateRoam app, a colleague can also hold a booking where the airline allows it: a form with the travellers, a review that spells out what is booked, then the hold. The airline sets until when it holds it, and the summary says so. The hold is an order in your agency's AirGateway account, so it shows in BookingPad, where you issue the ticket. Low-cost airlines take no holds: you book them in BookingPad. Holding is off until an admin switches it on. Every tool and the FAQ: AirGateway MCP.

What does your agency need?

  • Your own IATA number, for NDC fares. Without IATA, AirGateway offers low-cost airlines paid by card, and other airlines through AERTicket content, with your own AERTicket contract.
  • An AirGateway account: BookingPad plus AirGateway's Partner API subscription, the connection GateRoam uses. AirGateway onboards each agency itself and asks the airlines for your NDC access; it takes about a week. What it takes and what it costs: AirGateway for travel agencies: onboarding and pricing.
  • The consumer key of your agency's connection to GateRoam, which an admin pastes into GateRoam under Settings → Suppliers → Add supplier → AirGateway. GateRoam tests it before it saves it, stores it encrypted and never returns it to the browser or the AI (Security).

Which airlines you get depends on AirGateway and each airline's rules in your market; AirGateway's newer API, the one GateRoam uses, is adding them step by step. Ask AirGateway which ones are live for your agency.

How do you connect Claude or ChatGPT to AirGateway?

  1. Get your AirGateway account, or add the Partner API subscription if you already use BookingPad.
  2. Create a free GateRoam account and your agency, and connect GateRoam to your agency in your AirGateway account. We approve the connection.
  3. An admin adds AirGateway under Settings → Suppliers → Add supplier → AirGateway with the consumer key.
  4. Each colleague adds GateRoam to Claude or ChatGPT with the server URL https://gateroam.com/mcp and signs in with their own GateRoam account: how to connect.
  5. Ask in plain words:
Return flights Ljubljana or Zagreb to Frankfurt, 3–6 February 2027, 1 adult,
economy with a checked bag. Compare the NDC fares with our Amadeus fares.

Make a client offer with the two cheapest options.

The same search runs from the search page in the GateRoam app too.

Sources

Checked on 9 November 2026.

GateRoam is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by AirGateway. AirGateway and BookingPad are trademarks of AirGateway GmbH.

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Tine D.

Founder, GateRoam

Has built quoting, offer, booking and supplier-API systems for travel companies such as Palma, REM Travel and World Discovery — and now GateRoam, AI flight quoting on your Amadeus or Travelport contract.

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