Aviation Information Data Exchange (AIDX) is the global
XML
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messaging standard for exchanging flight data between
airlines
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which ...
,
airports, and any third party consuming the data. It is endorsed as a recommended standard by the
International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association (IATA ) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tar ...
(IATA), and the
Airports Council International
Airports Council International (ACI) is an organization of Airport authority, airport authorities aimed at unifying industry practices for airport standards. Established in 1991, its headquarters (ACI World) are based in Montreal, Montreal, Queb ...
(ACI).
History
The development of AIDX began in 2005 and launched in October 2008 as a combined effort of over 80 airlines, airports and vendors. To date, it consists of 95 distinct data elements, including
flight identification
In the aviation industry, a flight number or flight designator is a code for an airline service consisting of two-character airline designator and a 1 to 4 digit number. For example, "BA 98" is a British Airways service from Toronto-Pearson to L ...
, operational times, disruption details, resource requirement, passenger, baggage, fuel and cargo statistics, and
aircraft
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details.
The goal of the project was to standardize information exchange and tackle problems of disruption for a variety of
use cases
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# A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
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.
References
External links
''Aviation Info. Data Exchange (AIDX)''at International Air Transport Association (IATA)
''Airport IT - Documentation'' at Airports Council International (ACI)
Aviation infrastructure
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