IATA-DPC

IATA interline processing centre.

Definition

The IATA DPC is mainly located in Montreal (IATA headquarters) with regional hubs. Processes ~52M billing transactions/month interline, computes MITA (Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreement) prorations, applies IATA Clearing House (ICH) bilateral airline-to-airline settlement. Migrating to SIS Cloud since 2015 for digitisation and XML adoption.

Origin

IATA DPC operating since the 1970s ; electronic ICH migration 1990 ; SIS launched 2007 ; SIS-WEB cloud since 2015.

Example in context

IATA DPC processes an interline billing between Air France and Delta for an AFR-DAL passenger: tariff proration computation, IATA Clearing House net monthly settlement.

Related terms

• IATA RA — uses DPC.