When “the baggage went the wrong way” is not a meme, but an incident

At AeroPort, we worked with two aviation standards: ARINC 753 for baggage handling and IATA Type B for message exchange between airport systems. It sounds dry, but in practice it’s the kind of hard mode where one extra character is enough to make the data “not take off.”

We dealt with strict format requirements, tight validation, and careful data handling. Everything has to be exact: no “well, it almost fits,” like in those old integrations that are somehow still alive 😅

Another challenge was multilingual support in an international airport. We built fast language switching for staff and passengers so the interfaces wouldn’t lag even during peak hours.

Against the endless hype around AI, it’s especially satisfying to build systems where what matters is not magic, but reliability, standards, and predictability. Because in aviation, production doesn’t forgive.