A-BRS: A-ICE Baggage Reconciliation System
With the A-BRS baggage reconciliation system, every bag is followed from the check-in message to the hold, the arrival or the connection. Discrepancies are flagged in time for operators to act.
A-BRS records every scan of every bag, cart and container, with time, workstation and operator.
Our baggage reconciliation system works from the standard IATA baggage messages, regardless of the airline’s DCS. It reads BSM, BTM, BUM and BCM, generates BPM, BMM and BNS, and keeps the full original text of every message. Each scan is therefore placed in context: flight, destination, class and authority to load.
Benefits
- Flags bags loaded without authority to load, with the offload or accept-risk decision kept on record
- Lets a cart change flight once it has been emptied of the previous flight’s bags
- Keeps scans on the handheld when the network drops
- Places bags on hold, awaiting a new destination, when a flight is cancelled or returns to stand
- Provides recorded facts and original messages when an airline disputes a bag
- Scales from regional airports to hubs with a single installation and a profile for each airport
Features
- Tri-state authority to load (yes, no, not received), so that warnings stay relevant even when airline messages are incomplete
- Dedicated handling of exception bags: UNAC, UNAR, RUSH, CREW
- Numbered flight manifest (BMM) issued when the load is closed by an authorised person, showing bags on board, bags left on the ground and how many of those were authorised to fly
- Handheld application with eight workstations: Makeup, Load, Arrival, Transfer, Offload, Recovery, Find and Supervisory
- Local scan queue on the device, preserved across restarts and sent in the original order when the connection returns. Beyond a configurable threshold (30 seconds by default), the handheld suspends scanning and displays the reason
- Bag search requests delivered with sound and vibration to the relevant handhelds
- Full-screen control-room dashboard and exceptions queue for back-office staff
- Operational profiles (Core, Extended, Hub Light), expected paths, segregation rules and irregularity thresholds, configured per airport through settings alone
- Audit feed and message traffic, both searchable by bag tag
- Multi-customer architecture: data ownership by airline/airport contract, per-airport permissions, logged support access
- Multi-stop flight management and cart register with label printing
- Designed on the principles of IATA Resolution 753 and RP1800
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A-BRS: Baggage Reconciliation System – Product Sheet
Giving you the confidence that every bag and container is followed, and that any discrepancy surfaces in time. For passengers, lost bags are inconvenient and highly frustrating. For airlines and handlers, misdirected baggage is disruptive and costly. The product sheet describes how A-BRS follows each bag, what it flags and who takes the decision.
Request a demonstration
In less than an hour, A-ICE follows a real bag from the check-in message to the manifest, including a couple of deliberate irregularities. On request, the session is prepared on your flights and your data.