The State of Canadian Travel APIs

About this report

IATA is headquartered in Montreal. It authored New Distribution Capability — the standard the entire air industry has spent a decade implementing — and ONE Record for cargo. It runs the accreditation regime, the BSP settlement system, the ticketing resolutions and the PADIS code lists that every organization in this quartet depends on. It operates an Open API Hub.

Its own published surface scores 21.7, in the Emerging band, with no MCP server and no packaged agent skills — tied exactly with a tour operator and below a Crown-corporation railway. The OpenTravel Alliance — a volunteer non-profit in Florida with a fraction of the budget — scores 55.1.

That gap sets the tone for the market around it. Canadian travel averages 26.9; six of nine organizations cluster between 18.7 and 26.8, uniformly under-published rather than unevenly published, with only Air Canada clear of the pack at 49.9. Outside that one carrier there is no reachable domestic exemplar, no MCP server anywhere in the country, and no idempotency. An ecosystem cannot be more machine-readable than the body that defines its vocabulary.

What's inside

1. Executive summary — the standards capital that does not publish
2. The state of the sector — the standards capital that does not publish
3. The resource taxonomy — five specifications, one OpenAPI publisher
4. The composite Kin Score, and why it is the foundation
5. Agent-readiness — no MCP server anywhere
6. The blueprint
7. The regulatory layer — compensation, not contracts
8. Standards, switching cost, and the agentic turn
9. Security, authentication, scopes and compliance
10. Provider-by-provider intelligence
11. The investable thesis
12. Where this is going
13. Provenance — what is theirs and what is mine

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