Discover what's new in Concur Travel for Q1 2026, including new air content with NDC fares, new direct hotel content, automatic advisement of rail alternatives for flights, more flexibility for changing flights, and more.
What’s new in Concur Travel?
The Q1 2026 new Concur Travel release is ready for qualifying customers, as of March 14. Updates include:
- New air content with NDC fares being enabled on Sabre (Air Canada) and Amadeus (Singapore Airlines).
- PNR acquisition for offline GDS NDC bookings so that agent-booked GDS NDC flights can now be imported into the new Concur Travel, thus enabling users to view all their trips in the same location, and making flights available to Concur Expense for creating and populating expense reports.
- New direct hotel content through Hotel Connector with the integration of CTM.
- Trip change capability for Amadeus hotel bookings (depending on hotel rate availability).
- Flight trip changes prior to departure now allows users to make changes to their booked flights up to 4 hours prior to departure instead of 48 hours.
- Rail alternatives to flights enable users to be advised automatically if there are rail alternatives to flights, on routes where rail travel is a relevant and reasonable alternative. This replaces the legacy air-rail comparison feature. This is currently available for Amtrak; additional rail carriers will be available in future releases.
Important: Changes to Release Communications – Effective July 2026
Beginning July 2026, quarterly release details for the new Concur Travel will be posted exclusively here in the SAP Concur Community. Customer email notifications about features and functionalities will no longer be sent. Please bookmark the new Concur Travel resource page and the Release Notes to stay informed about upcoming updates.
Automatic Upgrades
- As announced in September 2024, the initial group of eligible customer configurations were automatically upgraded to the new Concur Travel.
- Professional Edition Sabre GDS and Standard Edition Sabre GDS eligible configurations were upgraded in April 2025.
- Eligible configurations for Amadeus GDS were upgraded in July 2025.
- All markets are now eligible (launched) for use of the new Concur Travel excluding India, which will be enabled in Q2.
- Concur Travel will continue performing Automatic Upgrades for customers’ eligible configurations in 2026. Upgrades occur by travel vertical (air, car, hotel).
- The latest scheduled Automatic Upgrades started on March 26 with a predominant focus on eligible Travelport + configurations.
All timelines and upgrade conditions will be sourced on the Community Portal throughout the year.
What’s in it for you
The Q1 2026 release of the new Concur Travel delivers meaningful customer value by offering richer content and an even more intelligent, flexible booking experience.
Expanded, modernized content
Customers gain access to a broader, more powerful content ecosystem that improves choice and compliance:
- New air content with NDC fares being enabled on Sabre (Air Canada) and Amadeus (Singapore Airlines).
- New direct hotel content through Hotel Connector with the integration of CTM.
- Rail alternatives to flights will automatically surface relevant rail alternatives during flight searches to nudge travelers toward more sustainable, practical choices—reducing emissions, supporting policy goals, and improving traveler experience without adding friction.
This improved content depth ensures more competitive rates, better availability, and more options aligned with traveler preferences.
Greater self-service, flexibility, and control
We continue to enhance traveler autonomy with new capabilities that reduce support costs, simplify change management, and provide better visibility and control over travel bookings:
- Trip change functionality expands to Amadeus ticketed hotel bookings and provides greater autonomy and flexibility for travelers.
- PNR acquisition for offline GDS NDC bookings delivers unified itinerary visibility, faster and more accurate expense reporting, and improved control in a single place.
- Flight trip changes prior to departure offers more flexibilty for travelers by allowing them to make changes to their booked flights up to 4 hours ahread of departure, down from the prior 48-hour limit.
Where can I find more information?
To learn more about these options, access product enhancements, support documentation, and find answers to many of your questions, please check the following:
- The new Concur Travel Resource Page for updates and new information about the new Concur Travel experience and how to prepare your end users for this change.
- The new Concur Travel Eligibility Documentation . The roll-out of the new Concur Travel, and your eligibility which depends on your settings and features.
- Learn more in our FAQs:
- Check out the Concur Travel Admin Toolkits: This collection of assets and resources (including email templates, guides and infographics) has been created to help your users with their change management while transitioning to the new Concur Travel
- Check out this video to get a preview of the re-platformed Concur Travel and its new travel booking experience.
- View the latest Release Notes , which contain details of the updates to Concur Travel.
- For more information about recent innovations for SAP Concur solutions, view the SAP Roadmap Explorer .
