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InterLnkd launches NEXORA to help airlines sell ancillaries in the air

InterLnkd launches NEXORA to help airlines sell ancillaries in the air

InterLnkd has today unveiled NEXORA, a curated ancillary stream that helps inflight connectivity partners turn onboard dwell time into a revenue opportunity – across both full inflight Wi-Fi and closed onboard network environments.

Built as a drop-in upsell layer for inflight portals, NEXORA extends the curation and personalisation technology behind InterLnkd’s AirMall inflight retail solution to the wider ancillary market.

It combines InterLnkd’s merchant network with a partner’s own supplier relationships, then ranks and curates offers into a single stream. Rather than presenting passengers with a static catalogue, it surfaces the offers most likely to convert – using signals such as route, cabin, loyalty tier, dwell time, and arrival window.

Barry Klipp, CEO of InterLnkd, said: “The flight itself is the largest captive attention window in travel. Passengers spend hours on board, often inside a closed connectivity channel operated by the airline or IFC provider. Yet almost none of the $135bn travellers spend on ground ancillaries is converted in the air today.

“To upsell passengers during the flight, integrating a few APIs won’t be enough. The hard part is turning a firehose of supply into a single offer that converts. We built NEXORA to monitor the best-performing placements and curate the right offer for each passenger. The model learns continuously: winners surface, losers sink.”

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NEXORA brings multiple pre-integrated supply categories live from day one, covering retail, experiences, events, dining, airport offers, transport, connectivity, and lodging. The curation engine ranks, deduplicates, and personalises supply across every category, scoring each placement against its expected revenue per impression.

The solution is built to support multiple commercial setups and connectivity models: it can run on InterLnkd’s own pipelines or a partner’s existing suppliers, regardless of whether the aircraft offers full in-flight Wi-Fi or a closed onboard network. Partners can earn revenue from every conversion, with promoted placements and sponsored offers adding a second incremental revenue stream.