IROPS passenger care, done for you

The care layer for airline disruptions

When a flight cancels, Flighter finds hundreds of rooms in seconds and puts the hotel on every passenger's phone. No queues at the desk, less stress at the gate, far fewer calls to your contact centre. And you pay only for rooms passengers actually use, never for no-shows.

A 45 minute working session with your OCC, procurement and finance. No slideware, your scenarios.

Operating record

We ran this desk by hand. The numbers came with us.

6,500+
Passengers housed
Accommodated to date across European disruptions by our operations team.
4.5%
No-show rate, managed
On the disruption room nights our desk operated. The industry norm runs 20 to 40%: rooms paid for and never slept in.
€1M+
Avoidable spend a year
At a single European hub: decisions under pressure, out-of-policy rates and invoices that never reconcile.
10,000+
Room nights a year
Of disruption demand at one European base alone, peaking after the last flight has gone.

We do the care. Your OCC runs the operation.

Rooms in seconds

Hundreds of rooms found while the queue is still forming: 48,000+ properties near the airport, with rates agreed for exactly this kind of night.

Hotel pool · BCN
Hotel Mar Blau ★★★★
2.1 km · 44 rooms · €84
In policy
Aeroport Suites ★★★
0.8 km · 38 rooms · €79
In policy
Gran Via Palace ★★★★★
9.4 km · 60 rooms · €212
Over ceiling
Ranked in 27s6 properties · 118 rooms

Costs that shrink

No desk staff burning hours, no passenger paying out of pocket, no invoices to chase. Bookings pay themselves with locked virtual cards and reconcile on their own.

Payment · single-use VCC
FLIGHTER · VIRTUAL CARDSINGLE USE
••••  ••••  ••••  4907
LOCKED TO
Hotel Mar Blau
AMOUNT
€3,696.00
STATUS
Authorized
44 rooms · 1 booking callReconciles to invoice

A quieter airport

Every passenger gets their hotel by SMS, WhatsApp or email before they reach the desk: directions, shuttle, breakfast. Calm passengers ask fewer questions, and your contact centre feels it first.

Passenger message · your brand

We are holding a room for you tonight.

Hotel Mar Blau, Carrer de la Platja 12. A shuttle leaves from Exit B every 20 minutes. Breakfast is included.

Accept below and your voucher arrives instantly.

Accept roomDecline
142 sent · 139 deliveredSMS · email · WhatsApp

EU261, covered

The duty of care delivered on time and recorded as it happens. When a claim or a regulator asks, the answer is a file, not a search.

Evidence pack · EU261 Art. 9
PNR K2R9XX · Fernández ×2
Room confirmed 22:41 · voucher delivered 22:43
Complete
PNR M4T1QP · Okafor ×1
Room confirmed 22:41 · meal voucher 22:44
Complete
PNR X8C3LN · Almeida ×4
UMNR priority · confirmed 22:38
Complete
142 of 142 evidencedExport: one click
The agent

Hand it the disruption in plain language

Your OCC writes one line. The engine identifies every passenger, scores hotels against your policy, auto-approves what sits inside it, and holds back exactly what your rules say a human must see. And every decision can be asked to explain itself.

  • Your policy is the autopilotRate cap, star minimum, distance, channels, languages: written once, enforced on every booking.
  • Exceptions stop for a humanSpend above your threshold and unaccompanied minors are blocked from auto-booking, always.
  • Every decision explains itselfAsk why any hotel was chosen; the answer is logged with the booking.
Flighter Agent · OCC channelLive
OCC · duty manager
FL2120 cancelled. 142 passengers, rooms for tonight.
Flighter
Manifest loaded: 142 passengers · 3 unaccompanied minors · 8 special assistance. Searching and scoring against your policy: rate cap, star minimum, distance.
Allocated · within policy3 held for review
139 of 142 · 6 propertiesavg €86 · under your auto-approve threshold
3 unaccompanied minorsauto-booking blocked by your policy
Flighter
Booking and paying by single-use virtual card. Vouchers going out by SMS, WhatsApp and email, in each passenger's language.
OCC · duty manager
Why not the cheaper hotel for the Almeida family?
Flighter
It fails your family connecting-rooms flag: no adjoining rooms tonight. The allocated hotel passes, at €12 more per night. Logged as decision #D-4127.
Every step loggedYour policy · your sign-off
Who is behind this

Built by the people who ran disruption desks for major European and international carriers

Not consultants, operators: the desk shifts, the cascades, the mornings after. That experience is what the engine automates, and it is why we know where the money leaks. At a single European base we studied, decisions under pressure, spend drifting past policy and invoices that never reconcile add up to €1M+ a year in avoidable cost. Automation with hard gates and a complete audit trail recovers most of it.

3,500+bookings processed by hand by this team, before the engine existed
€600K+of IROPS operations run manually: the job the product now automates
90rooms placed in a single request, with one call and one rooming list
24/7operation, because disruptions do not keep office hours
Chains bookable through our supply network

Results that operations leaders care about

Measured on the desk, not in a deck.

6,500+
Care delivered
Passengers housed and cared for across European disruptions by our operations team.
<5min
Manifest to booked care
A ranked, in-policy pool in seconds; bookings, payments and messages in minutes. The manual way takes 2 to 4 hours.
€0
Software cost to the airline
No fees, no subscription, no setup, no integration cost. You pay the room rates, as you always did.

Built for safety, spend control and auditability

Disruption spend is real money moving fast. We treat it that way.

01

Human sign-off

We never determine EU261 eligibility. We surface the facts; that decision stays with the airline, and an operator approves every spend.

02

Policy enforced in code

We never spend outside the approved envelope. Rate ceilings, hotel standards and distance rules are gates, not suggestions.

03

Complete audit trail

We never act without leaving a record. If it is not logged, it did not happen. The evidence pack exports per passenger.

04

Verified comms only

We never contact a passenger with unverified information, and never invent availability, rates or rules.

05

GDPR and EU data

Passenger data minimised, scoped and auditable end to end. Built in Europe, for European duty of care. Controls aligned with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.

06

Live data only

We never decide on stale data. Availability, passenger status and committed spend are read live at the moment of each decision and re-checked at booking, never taken from a cache.

FAQ

The questions every OCC asks before the first disruption

Q1

What does Flighter cost an airline?

Nothing as software: no fees, no subscription, no setup, no integration cost. The airline pays the room rates, as it always did.

Q2

Does Flighter decide EU261 eligibility?

Never. We surface the facts; the eligibility decision stays with the airline, and an operator approves every spend.

Q3

How fast is a disruption handled?

A ranked, in-policy hotel pool in under 30 seconds; manifest to booked care in under 5 minutes. The manual way takes 2 to 4 hours.

Q4

How do passengers hear from us?

SMS, WhatsApp or email, in your brand and in each passenger's language, cascading until delivered, with signed accept or decline links.

Q5

How are hotels paid?

With a single-use virtual card locked to the hotel and the amount. The airline pays, never the passenger, and invoices reconcile against bookings automatically.

Q6

What happens with special cases?

Spend above your threshold and unaccompanied minors are blocked from auto-booking, always. A human decides, with the full context attached.

Q7

What proof does the airline get?

An immutable audit record for every decision, and an EU261 Article 9 evidence pack that exports per passenger, claim ready. See our EU261 duty of care guide.

Q8

Where does Flighter operate?

Based in Porto, Portugal, operating across Europe, 24/7, with 48,000+ bookable properties and direct chain agreements.

Q9

What happens with no-shows?

Offers carry signed accept or decline links and delivery is tracked per passenger, so rooms are booked on confirmations, not on guesses. On the room nights our desk operated, no-shows ran at 4.5%, against the 20 to 40% common in disruption blocks.

Talk to us

Ready to run the next cancellation differently?

Bring your OCC, procurement and finance to one 45 minute session. We map your disruption workflow on your scenarios and show exactly where Flighter plugs in.

Based in Porto, Portugal · operating across Europe

We reply within one business day. No newsletters, no drip campaigns.

The next cancellation is already scheduled. Your response can be too.

Somewhere in your network, tonight or next week, 142 passengers will need rooms tonight. That can be our problem, not yours.