Discover How the Axway MFT Solution Supports IATA on Their Daily Data Processing

Learn more about Axway's MFT right here https://www.axway.com/en/products/managed-file-transfer Discover how IATA – International Air Transport Association - the global trade association representing nearly 350 airlines and 80% of global air traffic, ensures secure and efficient financial settlements across the aviation industry. In this video, Bomi Thomas Philip, Head Platform Management and Support Services at IATA shares how Axway’s Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution plays a critical role in processing over 200,000 files daily, enabling real-time ticketing, refunds, and cross-border airspace coordination. Learn why Axway was chosen for its support of diverse file formats, robust security, and seamless cloud migration—saving costs and enhancing performance. 🚀 Real-Time Financial Processing: IATA uses Axway MFT to handle 200,000+ daily settlement files, ensuring airlines receive payments and refunds without delay. 🔒 Secure & Compliant Data Exchange: Operating in a PCI DSS-certified environment, Axway MFT protects sensitive travel and financial data across global operations. ☁️ Cloud Migration Made Easy: Axway’s subscription model and flexible architecture enabled IATA to cut costs and simplify its move to the cloud. [Full video transcript] IATA is a global trade association. We represent the airlines, and we advocate for the airlines. We serve almost close to 350 airlines, and we are responsible for almost 80% of the global air traffic. In that perspective, always airline wants to get the money the moment you book the ticket, so real time processing is one of the major requirements for all the airlines. And when it comes to the customers like people like us who book the tickets if you want a refund, you also want a refund as early as possible and also the global airspace has a lot of challenges. IATA has to advocate with each of the countries to make sure we have harmony among countries we have a peaceful airspace. Initially when we were looking for SFTP solution we have multiple software vendors in our mind. One of the reasons for choosing Axway MFT was that it was Axway who could satisfy all our needs because IATA gets files from different file formats and then on top of it, security, architecture design, disaster recovery, HA, these were added comments, but the primary factor was you supported all the file formats which we need. MFT is the front end of IATA file reception for the DPC platform, if MFT is down we don't receive any files. If you don't receive any files, no files are processed. If the files are not processed, settlement doesn't happen on time which means airline can have a delay in receiving their money or refund which means a financial impact you know we are talking about millions here. One day or a two-day delay of receiving millions of money is an impact to the industry. We have four DPC's. We receive almost 200,000 files per day and these files we receive every day. From a financial perspective these are settlement files we send the information to our settlement platforms which means the impact on a weekly basis can be in millions. One of the driving factors for moving to cloud was cost saving and also reduce the dependency on physical hardware. This is where we decided to go with the cloud provider and with MFT our journey of migration was pretty much easy because of the way the MFT setup is done, copying the configuration files, implementing, it was pretty much easy for IATA. How Axway support IATA in the migration? When you move to cloud Axway said we are going to subscription model which means you only pay for the number of files which you receive. This helped us a lot because this helped us to save more costs. Security is a very important reason, being the data which we get has confidential information. This environment where MFT is deployed is a PCI DSS certified solution which means we have almost pass 300 controls. So, this environment has critical user information, your travel information, so we have to make sure it's kept confidentially and in a secure manner, so security is topmost. Why we chose MFT for the last 14 years is because of stability, performance, and security. We have an issue you raise a ticket we get support immediately. It’s an amazing journey. #SecureTransport #CloudMigration #AirlineInnovation