https://www.onarrival.com/blog Ideas for building useful, resilient travel products. en Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT OnArrival file CMS https://www.onarrival.com/blog/build-vs-buy-travel-infrastructure https://www.onarrival.com/blog/build-vs-buy-travel-infrastructure A practical build-versus-buy framework for travel products, covering supply, booking, servicing, payments, ownership, and the right architecture boundary. Business https://www.onarrival.com/blog/embedded-travel-for-fintechs https://www.onarrival.com/blog/embedded-travel-for-fintechs How fintechs can design embedded travel around payments, rewards, trust and post-booking service without turning travel operations into the core business. Product https://www.onarrival.com/blog/agentic-travel-mcp-guardrails https://www.onarrival.com/blog/agentic-travel-mcp-guardrails A practical guardrail model for AI travel agents: typed MCP tools, scoped credentials, spend limits, idempotency and audit traces. See how agents book safely. AI and agents https://www.onarrival.com/blog/ndc-gds-lcc-comparison https://www.onarrival.com/blog/ndc-gds-lcc-comparison Compare NDC, GDS and low-cost carrier direct connections across content, coverage, servicing and integration complexity, and how to choose your mix. Comparison https://www.onarrival.com/blog/travel-api-architecture-control-plane https://www.onarrival.com/blog/travel-api-architecture-control-plane A practical architecture for normalising travel supply, maintaining one order lifecycle and servicing bookings after checkout. Where the boundary belongs. Technical architecture https://www.onarrival.com/blog/travel-order-lifecycle https://www.onarrival.com/blog/travel-order-lifecycle Design a canonical travel order across offer recheck, payment, confirmation, changes, disruptions and refunds, with state transitions you can audit. Product engineering https://www.onarrival.com/blog/how-we-solved-room-mapping https://www.onarrival.com/blog/how-we-solved-room-mapping Inside OnArrival's mapping pipeline: normalisation, geohash and trigram blocking, calibrated matching, human review queues and drift control. Data and supply Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.onarrival.com/blog/unified-payments-refunds-reconciliation https://www.onarrival.com/blog/unified-payments-refunds-reconciliation A technical and operational guide to unifying travel collection, supplier settlement, refunds, FX, ledger design, and booking-level reconciliation. Technical https://www.onarrival.com/blog/hotel-mapping-deduplication https://www.onarrival.com/blog/hotel-mapping-deduplication How to resolve duplicate hotel listings, map rooms, merge content and rank supplier rates without erasing meaningful differences. A practical guide. Data and supply https://www.onarrival.com/blog/post-booking-is-the-trust-product https://www.onarrival.com/blog/post-booking-is-the-trust-product A practical guide to designing travel post-booking service around order state, disruptions, self-service, support, refunds, and customer trust. Operations https://www.onarrival.com/blog/the-travel-cart-problem https://www.onarrival.com/blog/the-travel-cart-problem Why a multi-supplier travel cart is a distributed-systems problem: hold TTLs, price re-validation races, saga commits, idempotency and currency rounding. Technical architecture Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.onarrival.com/blog/when-to-add-travel-as-a-product https://www.onarrival.com/blog/when-to-add-travel-as-a-product A practical readiness framework for deciding whether, why, and how to add travel to a fintech, loyalty program, marketplace, or digital product. Strategy https://www.onarrival.com/blog/why-ndc-wont-solve-your-immediate-problems https://www.onarrival.com/blog/why-ndc-wont-solve-your-immediate-problems A technical look at NDC certification levels, schema drift, servicing gaps and interline limits, and why supply belongs behind one offer abstraction. Technical Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT