The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) have extended their Direct Data Solutions (DDS) partnership, ensuring access to comprehensive global airline sales, market, and itinerary data for 100 airlines. DDS combines airline-contributed data, IATA’s Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) transactions, and ARC’s Area Settlement Plan (ASP) transactions into a single source. This valuable tool supports critical airline analytics and decisions.
DDS, jointly created by IATA and ARC in 2012, is the largest and most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset. It includes data from over 15bn passenger flights, representing 490 airlines and 230 countries and territories. It provides airlines with easily accessible insights for benchmarking their performance against other participating carriers.
IATA’s Glasnevin born Director General, Willie Walsh said, “DDS contributed significantly to position IATA as the trusted source of industry data, including traffic, safety, operations and sustainability.”
ARC’s President and CEO, Lauri Reishus said” “DDS is the foundation of ARC’s data platform and the most trusted source of global airline ticketing data,”
