Q1 2026 New Concur Travel Release Recap

What’s new in Concur Travel?

The Q1 2026 new Concur Travel launch is prepared for qualifying prospects, as of March 14. Updates embrace:

• New air content material with NDC fares being enabled on Sabre (Air Canada) and Amadeus (Singapore Airlines).
• PNR acquisition for offline GDS NDC bookings in order that agent-booked GDS NDC flights can now be imported into the brand new Concur Travel, thus enabling customers to view all their journeys in the identical location, and making flights accessible to Concur Expense for creating and populating expense reviews.
• New direct lodge content material by way of Hotel Connector with the combination of CTM.
• Trip change functionality for Amadeus lodge bookings (relying on lodge charge availability).
• Flight journey modifications previous to departure now permits customers to make modifications to their booked flights as much as 4 hours previous to departure as an alternative of 48 hours.
• Rail options to flights allow customers to be suggested routinely if there are rail options to flights, on routes the place rail journey is a related and cheap various. This replaces the legacy air-rail comparability characteristic. This is at the moment accessible for Amtrak; further rail carriers will likely be accessible in future releases.

Important: Changes to Release Communications – Effective July 2026

Beginning July 2026, quarterly launch particulars for the brand new Concur Travel will likely be posted completely right here within the SAP Concur Community. Customer e-mail notifications about options and functionalities will not be despatched. Please bookmark the brand new Concur Travel useful resource web page and the Release Notes ​ to remain knowledgeable about upcoming updates.

Automatic Upgrades

• As introduced in September 2024, the preliminary group of eligible buyer configurations had been routinely upgraded to the brand new Concur Travel.
• Professional Edition Sabre GDS and Standard Edition Sabre GDS eligible configurations had been upgraded in April 2025.
• Eligible configurations for Amadeus GDS had been upgraded in July 2025.
• All markets are actually eligible (launched) to be used of the brand new Concur Travel excluding India, which will likely be enabled in Q2.
• Concur Travel will proceed performing Automatic Upgrades for patrons’ eligible configurations in 2026. Upgrades happen by journey vertical (air, automobile, lodge).
• The newest scheduled Automatic Upgrades began on March 26 with a predominant deal with eligible Travelport + configurations.

All timelines and improve situations will likely be sourced on the Community Portal all year long.

What’s in it for you

The Q1 2026 launch of the brand new Concur Travel delivers significant buyer worth by providing richer content material and an much more clever, versatile reserving expertise.

Expanded, modernized content material

Customers achieve entry to a broader, extra highly effective content material ecosystem that improves selection and compliance:

• New air content material with NDC fares being enabled on Sabre (Air Canada) and Amadeus (Singapore Airlines).
• New direct lodge content material by way of Hotel Connector with the combination of CTM.
• Rail options to flights will routinely floor related rail options throughout flight searches to nudge vacationers towards extra sustainable, sensible decisions—decreasing emissions, supporting coverage targets, and bettering traveler expertise with out including friction.

This improved content material depth ensures extra aggressive charges, higher availability, and extra choices aligned with traveler preferences.

Greater self-service, flexibility, and management

We proceed to boost traveler autonomy with new capabilities that scale back assist prices, simplify change administration, and supply higher visibility and management over journey bookings:

• Trip change performance expands to Amadeus ticketed lodge bookings and supplies higher autonomy and adaptability for vacationers.
• PNR acquisition for offline GDS NDC bookings delivers unified itinerary visibility, quicker and extra correct expense reporting, and improved management in a single place.
• Flight journey modifications previous to departure gives extra flexibilty for vacationers by permitting them to make modifications to their booked flights as much as 4 hours ahread of departure, down from the prior 48-hour restrict.

Where can I discover extra data?

To study extra about these choices, entry product enhancements, assist documentation, and discover solutions to lots of your questions, please verify the next: 

• The new Concur Travel Resource Page for updates and new details about the brand new Concur Travel expertise and the way to put together your finish customers for this modification.
• The new Concur Travel Eligibility Documentation ​. The roll-out of the brand new Concur Travel, and your eligibility which is determined by your settings and options.
• Learn extra in our FAQs:
• Check out the Concur Travel Admin Toolkits: This assortment of property and assets (together with e-mail templates, guides and infographics) has been created to assist your customers with their change administration whereas transitioning to the brand new Concur Travel
• Check out this video ​ to get a preview of the re-platformed Concur Travel and its new journey reserving expertise.
• View the newest Release Notes ​, which comprise particulars of the updates to Concur Travel.
• For extra details about latest improvements for SAP Concur options, view the SAP Roadmap Explorer ​.