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Get in touchThe IBM MQ product is cut out for commercial airlines, so make the most of a solution ideal for small carriers.
Benefit from our cost-effective Carrier Data Receiver (CDR) solution that is available via a secure internet connection.
A hassle-free, simple and secure mechanism for transferring passenger manifests to the Passenger Data Collector.
The substantial growth in passenger numbers has helped connect people, cultures and businesses across borders and has brought exponential growth to the aviation industry. Yet, threats posed by international terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration means that as governments, customs and other border control agencies need to aid trade and travel, while facilitate customs clearance, there must also implement a system whereby they can circumvent threats such as detaining any potential high-risk passengers and ensuring that our borders are secure.
Known as Advanced Passenger Analysis (APA), this solution assists stakeholders with the underlying processes of passenger data collection, risk assessment, alerting and keeping a record of entry and exit, increasingly becoming a vital element of border management programmes. As a result, resources can be deployed more effectively and interventions can be planned and undertaken at a fraction of the cost.
APA provides the necessary channels through which passenger manifests are made available to the system. Commercial carriers use message queues based on the IBM MQ product to achieve this, but for smaller aircrafts such as private jets, the CDR solution may be a more cost-effective option to transfer manifests to the borders of the system. Thus, the solution you opt for depends on the size and type of aircrafts in question.
To meet carriers’ requirements, we have designed the Carrier Data Receiver (CDR) that brings together the various sources and format types and offers instead a simple and secure mechanism that transfers passenger manifests to the Passenger Data Collector for quality checking and transformation.
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Get in touchSecure MQ Gateway
Supporting application integration by enabling the transfer of data across multiple platforms by using queues, as well as sending and receiving data as messages, the MQ gateway offers an organised architecture for moving data in a secure and efficient manner. However, PTL’s Carrier Data Receiver (CDR) product offers some major benefits. From carriers’ MQ connections to message handlers, reservation systems and departure control systems that terminate on the MQ server, this resides within the CDR and as a result, all these elements are established through secure end-to-end Virtual Private networks between carriers and the border of the system. This enables carriers travelling from country to country to directly connect from their reservation systems to the Carrier Data Receiver (CDR), reducing their messaging costs.
In addition, by making use of the internet, any charges to an intermediary can be bypassed, while having a central collection system with a simple interface that improves data quality, carriers no longer need to send their data to multiple stakeholders. This can benefit entities such as the Police Force who can support IATA’s recommended data collection process, while it affords it with further control to manage carriers. Available at no cost via a secure internet connection from the reservation system itself, the Carrier Data Receiver (CDR) is the ultimate solution to save you millions.
Secure Web Portal
If you’re looking for a simpler method to upload passenger manifests, PTL can offer a secure Web Portal on which you can either upload a CSV file or create the manifest online and generate a CSV file that can be used as you please at a later stage. Users must be registered in advance, while their activity is logged within an auditing database.
SFTP Transmission
For operators who prefer sending CSV information directly from their systems to the borders with no interaction, an SFTP gateway is available. Although this method supports the transmission of PAXLST (API) and PNRGOV (PNR) information, MQ remains the preferred method for airline messaging by carriers.
Preliminary Data Cleansing
All messages are scanned for viruses prior to release into the subsequent Solution components irrespective of the method of data transfer and the payload of each receipt. In addition, the preliminary unwrapping of proprietary message formats such as SITA Type B is also handled by the Carrier Data Receiver (CDR).
Outbound Messaging Provision
Minimise exposure of internal message queues to the outside world thanks to CDR’s ability in acting as a gateway through which message acknowledgements generated by the APOS/PNR solution are sent back to the carriers.
