Air travel is set to nearly double over the next two decades. India alone is targeting 230 operational airports by 2030, up from 74 a decade ago. The systems running airports today were not designed for that future — they were designed for an era of monolithic on-premise deployments, multi-year migrations, and vendor lock-in. We think the next decade of airport growth deserves something better. That’s why we’re building Aerios.
Three patterns that have shaped legacy airport platforms — and why they no longer fit.
Most airport platforms in production today were built when integration was an afterthought and on-premise was the only option. Cloud-native, API-first design wasn’t a choice — it wasn’t a category. Airports adopting these systems inherit decades of architectural decisions that no longer fit how modern operations run.
Legacy on-premise platforms are usually sold as all-or-nothing implementations. Either you migrate the entire airport, all at once, over 18–36 months — or you don’t move at all. That cycle works for vendors. It doesn’t work for the operations director who needs to fix one workflow this quarter.
The flight schedule doesn’t talk to the FIDS. The FIDS doesn’t talk to billing. Billing doesn’t talk to compliance. Operations directors don’t have a unified view of what’s actually happening — they have ten dashboards, three of which contradict each other. The data exists. It just isn’t in one place.
For the regional airport modernizing without disruption — replacing legacy AODB and operations spreadsheets with a cloud-native system that grows alongside it.
For the multi-airport authority unifying operations across a network — segregated data per airport, shared master data, one operational standard.
For the international hub built for the decade ahead — sub-second flight state propagation, A-CDM milestones automated, conflict-aware allocation at hub volume.
If that sounds like your airport, we’d like to talk.