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Fact Sheet

AVIATION INFORMATION DATA EXCHANGE (AIDX)

AIDX is the XML messaging standard for exchange of flight The standard is maintained and developed by the AIDX Working
Group (aidx@iata.org) that is governed by the Airport Services
related information in the operational window of a flight. Committee that goes into the Passenger Services Conference.
The XML Schemas reside with IATA PADIS (Passenger and Air-
port Data Interchange Standards).
It is endorsed as a standard by:
• ACI Recommended Practice 501A07
A considerable focus of the AIDX development was to address
• ATA Recommended Practice 30.201A a thorough set of disruption use cases. Stakeholders identified
• IATA Recommended Practice 1797A typical issues with disruption seen in custom messaging, and
designed the AIDX schema to resolve these issues and satisfy the
AIDX was developed through an international effort to standardise disruption use cases.
the format of data pertaining to the exchange of information
concerning Operational Flight Legs, between Airlines, Airports
and Aviation Industry service providers. Prior to the release of The current release of AIDX supports SESAR A-CDM (Airport
AIDX, and in the absence of any standard, a plethora of custom Collaborative Decision Making) Operational Time and Status.
message formats was developed to satisfy the needs of stake- The AIDX working group continues to work with SESAR to en-
holders with data requirements exceeding the IATA AMH (Airport sure that the schema will support A-CDM as it evolves. The ACI
Handling Manual) MVT (Movement) message. The goal for the ACRIS (Airport Community Recommended Information Services)
working group in developing AIDX was to identify the common is using AIDX as a payload for services addressing A-CDM.
data in use, and to draw it into a standard.
The initial development of the AIDX XML schema took place be-
tween 2005 and 2008 and involved over 80 Airlines, Airports and There are many implementations of AIDX globally, involving
Vendors. The schema uses IATA codesets; however provision multiple Airlines, Airports, Service Providers and Vendors. It was
has been made for the use of ICAO Airport, Airline and Aircraft envisaged that AIDX implementations would typically address a
identifiers. The schema, which was initially launched in October few days around a Flight Leg operation date; however there are
2008, currently comprises 95 distinct data elements, covering current implementations that have extended AIDX messaging
multiple aspects of Operational Flight Legs such as: considerably beyond this temporal scope.

• Flight Identification
• Codeshare It is envisaged to migrate the AIDX standard into the IATA Industry
Data Model. In order to make that happen all AIDX data elements
• Line of Work and attributes need to be modelled in the IATA Industry Data
• Operational Times Model. This effort is envisaged to commence with the arrival of a
backward incompatible change request.
• Disruption Detail
• Status and Remarks
• Airport Resource Requirement
• Passenger, Baggage, Fuel, Cargo statistics
• Aircraft Detail

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