Baggage Information eXchange (BIX)

What Makes BIX Different?

Based on the Airline Industry Data Model (AIDM), BIX replaces fragmented, legacy baggage messages with a standardized, structured, and extensible data exchange approach.

BIX uses modern data formats such as XML to enable secure, multi-party baggage information sharing across airlines, airports, ground handlers, and technology providers. The latest major version of the BIX standard was released in 2025.

Why the Industry Needs BIX?

One Standardized Data Model

BIX introduces a common, industry-agreed baggage data structure, reducing reliance on legacy formats and airline-specific implementations. This improves semantic clarity and ensures that baggage information is consistently understood across systems.

Lower Cost and Greater Efficiency

By leveraging cloud-friendly messaging technologies, BIX significantly reduces the cost of baggage data exchange compared to traditional messaging networks. Its human-readable and version-controlled structure simplifies implementation, maintenance, and long-term scalability.

Resilient and Secure Communication

BIX introduces an event-driven approach to baggage messaging, where the custodian airline serves as the single source of truth and exposes broker endpoints for partners to publish and subscribe to standardized RP1755 baggage events. This architecture decouples information consumers from the underlying baggage systems, supports encrypted and optionally signed message exchange, and enables airlines, handlers, and authorities to establish direct, secure connections to the source of baggage information.

Future-Ready Baggage Operations

BIX provides the foundation for advanced baggage use cases, including enriched data exchange, automation, analytics, and innovation across the baggage journey.

Who Benefits from BIX and How?

Airlines: Lower Costs & Better Control

Airlines benefit from reduced messaging costs, improved data quality, and greater operational resilience. Rich and structured baggage data enables better automation, analytics, and faster recovery from disruptions.

Airports & Ground Handlers: Interoperability & Automation

Standardized baggage messaging improves interoperability between systems, reduces custom integrations, and supports automated baggage handling and exception management.

Technology Providers: Faster Innovation

An extensible data model allows solution providers to develop interoperable products while reducing implementation complexity across customers.

Passengers: Improved Experience

BIX enables enhanced passenger-facing services such as real-time baggage tracking, proactive disruption handling, image-based mishandled baggage processing, and more transparent baggage journeys.