K Plus, a Turkish company that produces comprehensive software solutions for more than 200 tourism professionals in 20 countries, has become one of the global solution partners of the international airline company Emirates. This cooperation with K Plus, which combines all services related to tourism with fast integration processes, will enable Emirates to reach a wider market and millions of passengers.

‘’As a 100 per cent domestic company, we are proud to be a global solution partner for Emirates‘’  Mehmet Gürkaynak: ‘’I wish that these innovations will be reflected as satisfaction to our customers and business partners‘’ said Kadri Ciga and added ‘’One of the sectors most affected by the rapid digital transformation is the travel industry. While more than 1.3 billion people move from one place to another, the digital tourism market is also growing rapidly. Rapid integration between processes is becoming more and more important for tourism and airline companies.

Turkish technology companies that produce innovative software solutions for this need have started to show themselves more in the global market. Founded with 100 per cent domestic capital, K Plus has become one of the solution partners of Emirates by signing a new global cooperation. Within the scope of the cooperation, K Plus will offer Emirates a wide range of solutions from airline NDC systems to hotel and tour operators APIs. Thus, a bridge will be established between Emirates and all operators and travel services.

Kadri Ciga, Chairman of the Board of Directors of K Plus, stated that Emirates will have the potential to reach thousands of travel agencies and millions of passengers by providing access to a wide market thanks to this cooperation, and explained their pride in being a solution partner to a global airline company and their story as follows: ‘KPlus stood out among Emirates’ other global collaborations because it quickly integrated technological innovations into its software and offered industry-specific solutions. We are proud to be among the 30 companies worldwide that Emirates has chosen as its solution partner as a Turkish enterprise. Since the day we were founded, we have grown and expanded rapidly as KPlus. Today, we serve over 200 tourism professionals in Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Iraq, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, France, Spain and Germany. In 2023, we increased our global reach by updating our software with technological innovations. Our 2024 goal is to strengthen our position in the industry by establishing more global co-operation and to improve the user experience by adding new features to our software.

Mehmet Gürkaynak, Emirates Regional Manager for Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, said the following about the KPlus cooperation: ‘’NDC (New Distribution Capability), which is one of the most trending topics in the aviation industry that rapidly implements technology innovations, is an issue that our company Emirates also emphasises. Our business partners can access the NDC channel, which enables the sharing of content directly to its users in the healthiest way, in 3 different ways. These can be summarised as; ‘Emirates Gateway Portal, which is Emirates’ own ticketing interface, an accredited technology partner and the user connecting directly to the Emirates infrastructure through its own system'. In September last year, our airline removed some price groups from GDSs (General Sales Channels) and opened the relevant price and content privilege only to NDC users. In our country, where there is an average monthly international sales traffic of 120 million USD, it is very important for us to have a technology partner alternative that will work in the local environment in order for our end-users to offer all Emirates content to their customers in the best way. KPlus has become the Corporate NDC Technology Partner of Emirates by completing all technological infrastructure integration and certifications during the last year. I congratulate the KPlus team for the success in software development and the progress made in the field of technology, and I sincerely hope that these innovations will be reflected as satisfaction to our customers and business partners.