Airline people, building the
tools we wished already existed.
AeroToys is a small, distributed collective of airline technologists. We release the missing infrastructure for modern airline retailing — open-source where forking helps, community-hosted where one source of truth matters more — so no airline has to rebuild the same plumbing again. No investors, no margin, no vendor lock-in.
Different problems need different open models.
A database benefits from being forkable — every airline runs it differently anyway. Tax rules and schedule data are the opposite: they only work if the whole industry trusts the same version. We pick the model that fits each tool, and keep the whole thing honest by building it in public.
Open by default
Every tool is open for inspection and contribution — Apache 2.0 and MIT throughout. No black box, no proprietary gates, no per-seat license.
Airline-governed
The rules, taxes, and schedules belong to the airlines that file them. Peers verify. We maintain the tools; the industry owns the data.
Free APIs
Where shared truth matters — tax and schedule data — we host one canonical instance with a free API. No key gating, no per-call fees.
Built in the open
Repos, RFCs, and benchmarks are public from day one. Disagree with a design? Open an issue. That feedback loop is the whole point.
One database underneath
The Open Order Database Engine powers the stack — document-native, sub-millisecond, embeddable. Shared foundations, not duplicated effort.
Airline IT cost → zero
Every block we open is infrastructure an airline no longer has to buy or rebuild — so more of the value can flow back to passengers.
Who's behind it.
We keep AeroToys deliberately un-branded — a working group of airline retail, ops, and engineering people rather than a company with a logo to push. Contributions are judged on merit, in the open, by peers who actually run airline systems.
Airline veterans
People who've lived through PSS, NDC, and ONE Order migrations — and know exactly where the standards leave airlines to fend for themselves.
A distributed collective
We work across time zones and carriers, deliberately un-branded. The work is the signature — not the logos behind it.
Veterans + young engineers
Senior airline retail and ops people pairing with engineers who bring modern developer ergonomics to airline-grade problems.
Build it with us
If you work on airline systems and believe the foundation should be open, the door is open.
Contribute a country to the Tax Engine, file your airline's SSIM, send a database benchmark, or open an RFC. Every credible contributor is welcome.