Supplier
Thales Group
Star Series Common-Use Airport IT Platform
Common-use passenger processing, baggage tracking and airport operational database — single platform for CUTE, CUSS and CUPPS.
The Thales Star series is a unified airport IT stack combining common-use passenger processing (CUTE/CUPPS check-in and gate workstations), self-service kiosks (CUSS), baggage reconciliation and IATA Resolution 753 individual-bag tracking, and the Airport Operational Database (AODB) that ties flight schedules, gates, stands, baggage and resource allocation together. Built on Thales' large-airport reference deployments and aligned to IATA NDC, ONE Order and BCBP standards. Modular per-airline subscription model supports brownfield migration without replacing all check-in fleet at once.
Technical specifications
Key specs
| Passenger throughput | 60M+ pax/year per deployment |
| Workstation latency | < 200 ms boarding-pass print |
| Concurrent airlines supported | 100+ on shared CUPPS estate |
| Bag tracking compliance | IATA Resolution 753 (full read-points) |
| AODB transactions | 10,000+ events/min peak |
| Architecture | Active-active dual data centre |
| Standards | CUPPS 1.04 · CUSS 1.5 · BCBP · NDC |