Passenger Service System — reborn

The airline platform, reborn from the ashes.

Phoenix retires decades-old PSS mainframes with an AI-native offer-and-order core — built for the way modern airlines sell, fly, and serve.

Built with next-generation carriers
AURORA AIRMERIDIANNIMBUSVEGA AIRWAYSSOLSTICE
300msMedian offer response
99.99%Platform availability
1Core for offer, order & ops
100%Open, documented APIs
The legacy

Built on systems older than the jet bridge.

The Passenger Service System is the beating heart of an airline — and for most of the industry it is the oldest software still in production. Phoenix begins where that era ends.

Green-screen mainframes

Most carriers still run reservations on host systems and teletype-era messaging designed in the 1960s. The terminal changed; the core never did.

Batch, never real-time

Fares filed in cycles, availability recomputed overnight, ancillaries bolted on. The airline reacts to the market a day late — it can never anticipate.

Locked in, fenced off

Monolithic vendors, closed schemas, and an integration tax on every new idea. Shipping a simple new bundle takes a quarter and a change request.

The platform

Everything a PSS was — rebuilt as one composable core.

Six capabilities, one data model, zero seams. Adopt a single module beside your incumbent, or run the whole airline on Phoenix. Each speaks open APIs from day one.

Offer

A real-time pricing and merchandising engine. Every search returns a dynamic, bundled, individualized offer — fares, ancillaries, and partners in one shop response.

Order

One order record from shop to flown. Native NDC and ONE Order replace the PNR, ticket, and EMD sprawl with a single, mutable source of truth.

Retailing

Sell anything, anywhere — seats, bags, lounges, upgrades, third-party products — across web, app, agent, and airport with consistent inventory.

Operations

Inventory, schedules, disruption, and re-accommodation on a live, event-driven model that reflects the operation as it actually unfolds.

Loyalty

Earn and burn in any currency, in the moment of sale. Recognition and value travel with the order rather than living in a separate silo.

Settlement

Accounting, interlining, and reconciliation derived automatically from orders — accurate to the cent, available the instant a transaction clears.

Intelligence

AI woven through the core — not bolted on the side.

Legacy PSSs were built for clerks at terminals. Phoenix is built for models in the loop: every offer, order, and operational decision is a place where intelligence acts.

Phoenix · live recovery
EVENTORD storm — 38 flights grounded
IMPACT6,142 passengers · 1,908 connections at risk
AGENTRe-accommodating by value + crew legality
Resolved in4.2s · 98.7% rebooked
  • Agentic disruption recovery

    When weather cascades, Phoenix re-accommodates thousands of passengers in seconds — balancing cost, connections, crew legality, and customer value.

  • Continuous dynamic offers

    Every search is priced and bundled in real time against live demand, willingness-to-pay, and remaining inventory. No fare classes. No overnight batch.

  • Conversational servicing

    Passengers change, refund, and upgrade in natural language. The model handles the routine and escalates the genuine edge case to a human with full context.

  • Revenue & anomaly intelligence

    Models surface leakage, fraud, and missed upsell the moment they appear — turning the order stream into a continuous source of margin.

Architecture

Cloud-native to the core. Open at every edge.

Phoenix is event-driven, API-first, and deployed continuously. The hard part of leaving a legacy PSS was always the migration — so we engineered the platform around doing it without a big bang.

Composable services

Independently deployable domains over a shared event log. Replace a module without re-platforming the airline.

Open by default

Documented REST and event APIs, native NDC & ONE Order. No closed schemas, no integration tax.

Global, elastic scale

Multi-region and event-driven — it absorbs an IROP surge and a fare sale without breaking a sweat.

Secure & compliant

PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and data residency built in. Every order is auditable end to end.

Migration without the big bang
01

Connect

Phoenix sits beside your PSS and syncs orders bi-directionally. Nothing is ripped out.

02

Run alongside

Shift one flow at a time — start retailing on Phoenix while the host still flies.

03

Cut over

When the new core proves itself, retire the mainframe on your schedule.

Rise.

Retire the mainframe. Tell us about your airline and we’ll set up a demo of the offer-and-order platform your passengers actually deserve.

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