Get discovered before the destination is decided.
YonderHop is a visual, flexible-search flight discovery platform — travelers explore by budget, open dates, and open destinations instead of starting from a fixed route. YonderHop Direct lets airlines surface authorized, airline-direct offers inside that discovery experience, with no YonderHop fare markup and a direct handoff to your own booking flow.
Discovery, not just comparison
Most flight searches begin after a traveler has already chosen a destination and dates. YonderHop is designed to help earlier. Travelers can explore questions such as:
- Where can I fly within my budget?
- Which dates are actually cheapest?
- What destinations become possible if I’m flexible?
- What’s the best way to combine several cities?
- Is this fare genuinely good compared with observed prices?
That puts your fares in front of travelers while the decision is still being formed — demand you can win before it ever becomes a fixed-route search on another site.
A deliberately simple partnership
We display the airline-authorized price without adding a YonderHop margin.
We send the traveler to your booking experience. You own the sale, the data, and the service relationship from click to takeoff.
Distribute through YonderHop alongside every other channel you use. We can also distribute and feature exclusive fares, promotions, or last-minute offers targeted at travelers most likely to book — a direct way to fill seats on flights that would otherwise fly empty.
Ticketing, payment, exchanges, and refunds stay exactly where they are today — with you. YonderHop focuses on what we do best: turning undecided travelers into people ready to book with you.
If you already expose an NDC or proprietary shopping API, YonderHop builds and maintains the adapter — new discovery traffic with minimal lift on your side.
We report searches, offer visibility, clicks, and route interest, so the value of the channel is never a guess.
Connect using what you already have
YonderHop’s backend already normalizes multiple flight-data providers into a common search model.
Potential integration methods
- IATA NDC shopping API
- Airline proprietary API
- Existing authorized distribution API
- Structured shopping feed plus booking/deep-link workflow
For an initial pilot, we primarily need
- Shopping availability
- Total price and currency
- Itinerary/segment information
- Fare or brand information when available
- Booking/deep-link handoff
- Reasonable API usage limits
Search efficiently, respect your infrastructure
YonderHop does not need to send every search to every airline. We use network coverage, route intelligence, caching where authorized, and provider-performance data to make targeted shopping requests — so your API sees relevant, high-intent traffic instead of noise.
A practical first pilot
Suggested starting scope:
- One-way and round-trip shopping
- Selected markets
- Economy cabin initially
- Airline-direct attribution
- Direct booking handoff
- Agreed caching/revalidation behavior
- 90-day evaluation
No exclusivity. No guaranteed volume. No YonderHop markup — just a low-risk way to test a new source of demand.
Interested in becoming a YonderHop Direct airline?
If your airline has an NDC API, proprietary shopping API, distribution feed, or another way for approved partners to access live offers, we can put those fares in front of travelers who haven’t committed to a destination yet — and send them to you to book.
Contact: [email protected]
Useful information to include
- Airline and contact name
- Distribution/API documentation
- Supported NDC version if applicable
- Sandbox availability
- Booking/deep-link options
- API limits or look-to-book requirements
FAQ
Does YonderHop add a markup to airline fares?
No. YonderHop’s proposed direct-airline model does not add a YonderHop fare margin to the airline-authorized price.
Does YonderHop need to issue tickets?
No. YonderHop is a discovery platform, not a travel agency. We handle shopping and a direct handoff to the airline, which remains the merchant of record.
Do you require exclusivity?
No, it’s not required — a standard partnership works alongside every other channel you use. We can also distribute and feature exclusive fares, promotions, or last-minute offers targeted at travelers most likely to book, which is a direct way to fill seats on flights that would otherwise fly empty.
Can YonderHop integrate with NDC?
Yes. YonderHop’s provider architecture is designed to normalize different flight-data sources, and airline-specific NDC adapters can be added behind that interface.
Can we start with only selected routes or markets?
Yes. A constrained pilot is preferable to an unnecessarily broad first integration.
How does YonderHop control search volume?
We can use route/network eligibility, caching where permitted, deduplication, and provider intelligence so direct airline APIs are queried when they are likely to contribute useful results.