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Life at Duffel

Returning to the Duffel office in 2022

After two years working from home and welcoming 59 new team members, we’re ready to safely head back to the office.

Airlines

Duffel enters NDC partnership with Spirit Airlines to deliver affordable fares across the Americas for travel sellers

Spirit Airlines is live on Duffel with its NDC programme unlocking incredibly competitive fares for travel sellers without any surcharges.

Travel Industry

Overcoming the hurdles to build a successful travel startup

Watch the panel discussion to learn why now is the right time to start a travel business, how to navigate regulatory requirements, and what you can do to make money selling flights.

Airlines

Avianca Airlines becomes another major NDC airline live on Duffel

Avianca Airlines announced its new NDC programme with exclusive content coming soon to travel sellers with Duffel.

Travel Industry

Building a travel API integration is time-consuming

Check out the considerations for building a flights integration to uncover the reality behind this misconception and learn how developer experience can be improved.

Travel Industry

Managing travel operations is challenging

Uncover the reality behind this misconception by exploring what it takes to run a Travel Operations team and how it can be successfully managed.

Travel Industry Featured

Processing flight payments is complex

Go behind the scenes of a typical flight booking to uncover the reality behind this misconception and learn how to make money selling flights.

Travel Industry

Starting a travel business is difficult

Dive into the world of IATA accreditation, airline ticketing authority, and local licensing to uncover the reality behind this misconception.

Travel Industry

Getting into the travel industry today is unthinkable

Uncover the reality behind the misconception and learn why 2022 is a surprisingly good time to start a travel business.

Airlines

LATAM joins Duffel expanding coverage across Latin America

LATAM, the largest airline group in Latin America, is now available to travel sellers with Duffel. Learn more about LATAM and get access today.

Life at Duffel Featured

Behind the scenes of the 2022 Duffel brand refresh

After months of planning, designing, building, testing, and implementation, we are finally releasing the newly refreshed Duffel brand into the world.

Engineering

Understanding an outage: concurrency control & vacuuming in PostgreSQL

The engineering culture at Duffel is one that embraces failure and thrives on transparency.

Life at Duffel

Joining the Duffel design team: our first three months on the job

What is it like working as a designer at Duffel? We interviewed our latest additions to the brand design team to find out about their first three months.

Airlines

First Class airline Etihad Airways is live on Duffel

Etihad Airways is now available to all travel sellers on Duffel. Discover more about Etihad’s premium experience and memorable First Class service and learn how to get access today.

Travel Industry

Google Flights API: How did it work & what happened to it?

When a tech industry giant buys one of the biggest flight search software companies, makes a new API, and then shuts it down, what happens next?

Engineering

Why Duffel Helps You Find Your Routes.

Learn about look-to-book, what our Routing Model does, and what it means for you as a travel seller.

Engineering

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aircraft Seat Maps

When designing our Seat Map API, we investigated hundreds of real seat maps and the findings were quite surprising.

Airlines

Duffel now offers more choice in airlines, covering nearly 80% of target markets

Merchants now have more choice in airlines across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Airlines

Simone Maillard joins as VP, Global Partnerships

Say hello to Simone Maillard. Simone brings over 15 years of experience in the travel industry and will be leading global partnerships at Duffel.

Product Updates

Introducing Loyalty Programmes

Include loyalty programme and frequent flyer details in your user flow when selling flights on Duffel.

Travel Industry

5 Takeaways from Skift Global Forum 2021

This year’s Skift Global Forum welcomed some of the world's most prominent names in travel like Airbnb, Google, and Expedia to unpack challenges and share insights for the future. In case you missed it, here's our 5 takeaways from this year's event.

Travel Industry Featured

The three things you need to do to start selling flights online

If you want to start selling flights online through a website or app, there are three steps you'll need to take to get started. In this blog post, we'll take you through each of the steps.

Airlines

Volaris, an ultra-low-cost carrier in Mexico, is now available on Duffel!

Volaris is an ultra-low-cost carrier based in Mexico City. It is the main airline for domestic flights in Mexico offering frequent domestic routes at affordable prices. Sign up today and get access to Volaris flights.

Travel Industry

How do I make money selling flights?

Our goal at Duffel is to make it unbelievably simple to start selling flights online. You integrate with our API, and then we take care of the rest: regulatory requirements, airline relationships, the works.

Engineering

Interviews suck. Here's how Duffel tries to make them suck less.

Interviewing is stressful. You're jumping into the unknown. At Duffel, we want to make this as painless and friendly as possible. Learn more about how we structure Engineering interviews and what to expect.