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Reimagine airline finance with Sutherland altra

Sutherland altra® is a finance suite purpose-built for airline CFO offices, providing end-to-end financial management tailored exclusively for the airline industry—from sales and collections to cost management and profitability analysis.

With real-time revenue recognition through altraPRA, unified cost capture through altraDOC, and deep integration via altraRP, altra® connects revenue and cost data to complete the revenue-to-profit cycle, delivering route- and flight-level contribution and profitability insights.

The suite includes:

  • Sutherland altraPRA
  • Sutherland altraAR
  • Sutherland altraDOC
  • Sutherland altraRPS (Route Profitability System)
  • Sutherland altraINSIGHTS

Features and Benefits

altraPRA: Passenger Revenue Accounting Solution

Sutherland altraPRA is a scalable PRA solution enabling near real-time revenue recognition, advanced proration, and automated accounting. It supports both E-Tickets and ONE Order, with an AI-driven engine reducing manual effort and ensuring compliance.

altraINSIGHTS: Advanced Airline Analytics & Reporting

Sutherland altraINSIGHTS converts airline data into actionable insights through advanced analytics, dashboards, and reporting. It delivers unified visibility across operations, ticketing, accounting, and commercial functions, enabling faster, data-driven decisions and supports prompts in natural language.

altraAR: Airline Accounts Receivable Automation Platform

Sutherland altraAR automates complex receivables reconciliation across all forms of payments, sales channels, acquirers, banks, BSPs, agencies, and GSAs. It standardizes diverse payment files, enabling seamless integration, automated reconciliation, and improved cash visibility.

altraDOC: Airline Cost & Profitability Platform

Sutherland altraDOC unifies cost capture, invoice reconciliation, and system integration to provide real-time operating cost visibility. It covers key airline cost categories and enables near real-time cost insights at flight and route level. Integrated with altraPRA and altraRPS, it completes the revenue-to-profit view.

altraRPS: Route Profitability System

Sutherland altraRPS provides airlines with clear visibility into profitability at route, aircraft and flight level by combining revenue, cost, and operational data. It enables quick identification of underperforming routes and supports smarter network planning and capacity decisions.

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Why Sutherland

Platforms for Airlines

Sutherland altra® built from the ground up to address the unique ecosystem of platforms, participants, and operational challenges within the airline industry, enabling faster implementation, reduced customization requirements, and lower overall costs.

Real-time Visibility

Utilize real-time insights into financial performance to monitor key metrics and drive data-led decisions.

Efficient Financial Management

Integrated Agentic AI engines to reduce the manual processing efforts, improve efficiency and reduce errors.

Certified

Certified by IATA for Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM), helping airlines transition seamlessly from e-tickets to Order based transactions.

Celebrating Excellence in Partnership

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to Sutherland Global Services for their consistent performance and unwavering commitment to excellence in revenue accounting. Your agility in supporting urgent tasks, proactive adoption of new technologies, and focus on data-driven efficiency have played a vital role in empowering strategic decision-making. Thank you for being a trusted partner for over 15 years in our journey toward operational excellence.

Mr. Ian BurgessVice President – GBS Finance ServicesQatar Airways Group

As the world’s first digitally native airline, to support Riyadh Air’s offer and order based modern retailing platform, we needed a revenue accounting platform provider with deep industry expertise and a collaborative approach. The seamless deployment to date of Sutherland’s altra® suite has exceeded our expectations. Working together with the Riyadh Air team throughout the process, the professionalism, technical expertise, and responsiveness of the Sutherland team has been exemplary. We would like to extend our appreciation to the Sutherland team for providing their platform, expertise, and support in enabling a smooth and successful go-live of our operations.

Nick CaineGroup Financial ControllerRiyadh Air

To support our expansion into new interline partnerships and global distribution channels. Sutherland delivered a scalable, compliant, and fully managed platform that ensures operational resilience while aligning with our pace of growth and agility. Their end-to-end expertise—from implementation to billing—gives us the confidence to focus on strategic growth, knowing our operations are in expert hands.

Pramod Kumar SrivastavaAssociate Vice President-Revenue AccountingIndiGo

We selected Sutherland’s altraPRA for our revenue accounting processes in 2021. In collaboration with Sutherland’s responsive and knowledgeable support team, we successfully customized and developed a revenue accounting system that aligns with both our requirements and IATA standards. Today, altraPRA plays a key role in supporting efficient and reliable revenue accounting processes, significantly contributing to our operational success.

Dr. Martin FiedlerHead of Finance Hahn Air

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