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InfoSky starts first cooperation with Shandong Airlines by setting up its cargo system
After won the contract of Air Macau's cargo system, InfoSky was awarded by Shandong Airlines to offer IT solutions for its cargo business. It is the first cooperation of both sides, which makes InfoSky's airline users up to 10.
According to Shandong Airlines' business requirements and development status, InfoSky will implement the project phase by phase. Cargo e-commerce system E-Cargo is the first phase and will start running at the end of this year.
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Air Macau selects InfoSky's new generation cargo management system-iCargo
According to the agreement, InfoSky will provide Air Macau with advanced and platform based cargo business handling system-iCargo host service. The system will be deployed constantly in its headquarter and offices in Shanghai, Taibei, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Nanjing.
An official from Air Macau said the reason to select InfoSky as provider is InfoSky's advantages in local support and its rich experience in the industry. Air Macau is full of confidence to both sides' further cooperation.
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By use of InfoSky's new airport cargo system, GBIA takes the lead in operating cargo business on open platform
Recently, GBIA concluded an agreement with InfoSky for the use of cargo handling system. According to the agreement, the new version of InfoSky's cargo business and management system, named CFPS3.0 will be provided to GBIA. GBIA is the first airport to use CFPS3.0 to operate its cargo business.
CFPS3.0 provides many functions to support GBIA's different business, such as cargo terminal international and domestic import and export business, ULD management, warehouse management, rate, statistics and finance etc.
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InfoSky launches new generation airlines cargo business management system-iCargo
At present, the world air cargo market is growing rapidly. It is estimated that China will be the best country around the world to keep its growth rate quickly. The growth rate of China's cargo market from now on to the year 2021 will be 10.3%.
After serious study and site survey, by means of 10 years development experience dedicated in air cargo computer system, InfoSky lanched new generation, based on open technology, specially for airlines cargo business handling system-iCargo.As the core of airlines cargo business management system, iCargo supports airlines to operate cargo business in the group range. It also supports CRM, rate management so as to satisfy the demand of the front edge staff.
iCargo represents the leading technology. It can fully support airlines cargo business.
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InfoSky's air logistics business got support from its shareholders on its 6th BoD meeting
InfoSky's 6th BoD meeting was held On March 2 to 4, 2004. The Directors from InfoSky's shareholders, TravelSky and SITA, and InfoSky's executive management attended the meeting. In the meeting, the BoD members approved InfoSky's annual financial budget, air logistics development strategy and business plan. The shareholders also decided to add more investment to strengthen InfoSky's promotion and development capability in the market.
In 2003, the civil aviation industry was attacked badly because of the outbreak of the SARS. But under the efforts of all the staff, InfoSky's achievements get new high. InfoSky was awarded contracts by Shenzhen Airport, Xiamen Airport, Shenzhen Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and China Southern Airlines.
At the same time, InfoSky has been dedicated in product development and innovation. New generation cargo information handling system that is based on the open platform, iCargo has been developed. Air logistics information service platform was established. InfoSky also made improvement and upgrade to CFPS, E-cargo and InfoLink.
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InfoSky signed cargo system data exchange agreement with China Southern to offer cargo system value-added service
Recently, InfoSky was awarded cargo system data exchange service agreement by China Southern Airlines. According to the agreement, InfoSky will provide China Southern with data exchange service that is handled on InfoSky's own Air Logistics Information Service Platform (LISP). Through TravelSky's communication network and other data network, LISP can establish standard data exchange channel between China Southern's cargo system and other airlines and airports' system, to realize cargo data exchange.
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Shanghai Airlines selects InfoSky's E-commerce solutions to support its e-cargo business
Recently, InfoSky was selected cooperator by Shanghai Airlines to provide cargo e-commerce solutions.
At present, the development of e-commerce has been mature. Many traditional industry companies, such as manufactory industry, commercial, transportation industry are expanding their business into Internet. They want to increase income while reduce cost by means of e-commerce to achieve information flow, cash flow, and logistics together.
InfoSky's E-cargo is consist of 4 subsidiary systems, eg., Application Security Control system, Space Control system, E-booking system, Cargo Business Handling system.
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Shenzhen Airport selects InfoSky's cargo management system
Recently, Shenzhen Airport concluded an agreement with InfoSky for the introducing cargo information system. According to the agreement, InfoSky will provide Shenzhen Airport with cargo system solutions and 3-year technical service.
InfoSky's cargo system solution is the most advanced cargo business and management system in China. The powerful system can support the whole cargo management and operation.
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Xiamen Airport selects InfoSky's cargo total solutions
After a period time preparation, Xiamen Airport Cargo Terminal Company finished its bid on cargo information system project. InfoSky beat other competitors to be the winner.
Xiamen Airport Cargo Terminal is co-founded by Xiamen International Airport Group and Taiwan Hangqin Co. Ltd. Its major business includes cargo ground handling, road tranportation, information consultancy.
InfoSky's solutions is an open platform, which covers many functions including application system security control,cargo business handling and management, voice inquiry, statistics and data exchange.
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Shenzhen Airlines selects InfoSky to provide cargo system solutions
According to the agreement, InfoSky will provide total solution for Shenzhen Airlines cargo system, which includes core application software, Cargo Information Business Handling System, Cargo Operation Decision Making Support System, E-cargo business, Cargo Information Release System, InfoPub and System Integration. Shenzhen Airlines is the 8th airlines that using InfoSky's cargo system service.
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GUANGZHOU BAIYUN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (GBIA) ADOPTS SITA'S INTEGRATED AIRPORT SYSTEMS
-China's GBIA prepares for a projected 25 million passengers using SITA's leading airport solutions-
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG - 5 August 2004 Representing the largest single investment in its history, the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) has confirmed that the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (GBIA) construction is one of the principal projects in its five-year strategic development plan. As part of the first phase of the new airport construction, GBIA has selected SITA to provide a range of integrated airport systems.
The sophisticated airport system includes the implementation of SITA's Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE®) check-in solution, BagManager for baggage reconciliation, PassengerHandler for a common language check-in facility, a back-up Departure Control System (DCS), Common Use Self Service (CUSS) kiosks and additional supporting systems such as mobile wireless services. GBIA will be the first international hub of China's Civil Aviation Authority to use a common platform throughout the airport campus, servicing both international and domestic passengers.
Mr. Zhang Chun-lin, President of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Group Corporation commented, "SITA's CUTE solution will provide GBIA with a smooth and efficient check-in process for our passengers, enabling airlines to operate efficiently from anywhere within the airport. What will be particularly important for us, will be the ability to easily expand these systems as passenger numbers grow over the next few years."
The GBIA terminal complex has been designed to handle projected annual passenger traffic of 25 million by 2010. It covers an area of 300,000 square meters with some 250 check-in desks-with a planned expansion to 1,000 desks in order to welcome as many as 80 million passengers a year.
Russ Lewis, SITA's Vice President of Asia Pacific Airport & Desktop Services, added "SITA will provide GBIA with a set of advanced systems as part of a comprehensive turnkey solution. We will provide a shared departure control system by supporting multiple back-end hosts and sharing all front-end departure workstations and peripheral devices on the same platform. We're immensely proud to be working with GBIA and this partnership underscores our commitment to delivering best-in-class services to the airports of China".h
Elyes M'Rad, SITA's Regional Vice President of North Asia and China continued, "Our systems are designed to help airports maximize security, combat congestion, improve operating efficiencies and reduce costs. We're working hand-in-hand with GBIA to help them maximize the use of their resources and enable them to deliver premium services to their tenants and passengers across the entire airport complex".
SITA's solutions provide airports with the technology architecture required to take advantage of a broad range of Internet Protocol (IP)-based services that are vital to the future of the air transport industry. SITA's CUTE continues to lead the evolution in shared-use systems and offers Java-based, end-to-end IP connectivity from host to the airport desktop, providing airlines with access to their own applications via an open industry platform. SITA currently manages some 30,000 CUTE workstations for 285 customers in more than 200 airport locations worldwide, checking-in an estimated 580 million passengers a year.
For further information (not for publication) contact:
Vina IP
SITA INC - Regional Marketing Manager
Tel. +65 6548 2630
Email: vina.ip@sita.aero
Notes to Editors:
About Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (GBIA)
GBIA is expected to be a traffic hub of southern and southeastern China in the future. It is projected that by 2010, GBIA will have an annual passenger handling capacity of 25 million passengers; an annual freight handling capacity of one million tons, peak-hour passenger handling capacity of 9,300 passengers, annual airplane arrival/departure capacity of 170,000 airplanes, peak-hour airplane arrival/departure capacity of 90 - 100 airplanes.
About SITA INC
SITA INC (Information Networking Computing) is the world's leading provider of air transport focused applications, communications and IT infrastructure, enabling its customers to realize greater operational efficiencies and enhanced profitability. Building on a heritage of innovation, the company provides services to air transport customers and to related industries, as well as government authorities, offering a unique portfolio of solutions. SITA INC is registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and recorded revenues of US$694.5 million in 2003.
Further information can be found at www.sita.aero
CUTE® is a registered trademark of SITA
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SITA brings advanced technologies and conceptions to China
By journalist Yang Zhenhong
Bruno Frentzel, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of SITA, signed an agent agreement with InfoSky Technology Co., Ltd. (InfoSky) in Beijing on June 20. From then on, the marketing promotion of SITA's services in China will be under the responsibilities of InfoSky. In fact, according to the approval of InfoSky second board meeting InfoSky already started this business from January 1, 2002. As the world's leading provider of information and communications solutions in the air transport field, SITA has started developing its business in China in depth.
Industrial leader looking for opportunities in China
InfoSky is a high-tech enterprise jointly founded by SITA and TravelSky based on the principle of mutual benefit and creating synergy by combining associating two strong enterprises, with TravelSky and SITA respectively holding 51% and 49% shares. InfoSky was formally launched on January 1, 2001. To explore the business growth with its joint venture staff in China is one of the objectives of Bruno's visit to China. To visit the important Chinese customers and partners is also a highlight of this travel. When receiving the journalist's interview, he expressed that SITA wishes to cooperate with Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in a departure project.
SITA's objectives are far from being limited to the abovementioned ones. Bruno said that, according to SITA's prediction, the rapid growth of China's economy will produce a huge driving force for the information service industry and China will surely become a "giant dragon" in the IT industry, and there are a lot of opportunities for the applications of IT in China's air transport industry. SITA wishes to introduce advanced technologies into China through InfoSky and become the Chinese customers' most trustworthy partner.
SITA is an unpopular name for common Chinese people, but SITA has been well-known among the professionals in China's civil aviation industry since quite an early time. Everyone would be stirred after really understanding this organization with a glorious history over 50 years.
However, it's much to be regretted that SITA and China did not meet earlier. On March 9, 1981, CAAC joined SITA as member and subscribed to SITA's Garbriel reservation system. Since then, CAAC started its automatic reservation system for both international and domestic flights. This was the first cooperation between the CAAC and SITA. Though some Chinese airlines and airports have subscribed services from SITA afterwards, in comparison with SITA's huge success in the global air transport industry, SITA's business in China still have great potential to grow.
We should say that InfoSky's formal launch on January 1, 2001 was a turning point of SITA's business development in China. Both parent parties to the cooperation have mastered a very important opportunity this time. Relying on the strength of its two shareholders, InfoSky's cargo systems has rapidly seized 90% shares in the domestic air cargo field. From SITA's entire entrustment of all its products to InfoSky that has been founded for only one year we may see SITA's stress on the Chinese market and its trust in the joint venture.
China's air transport industry must take the road of outsourcing
Mr. Bruno Frentzel is very familiar with China's civil aviation industry. When the journalist asked him to give some suggestions on China's civil aviation enterprises, rather than talking in generalities as expected by the journalist, he put forth his opinions very honestly. He suggested that China's civil aviation industry should speed up the introduction of advanced technologies from the western countries and, what's more important, accept advanced conceptions. In his opinion, to take the road of outsourcing can save not only time but also cost for China's civil aviation enterprises.
Mr. Bruno Frentzel holds that an enterprise should outsource all professional production-supporting functions to professional service providers, so the enterprise can concentrate manpower and materials in its core business. Because an outsourcing service provider always renders service to the whole industry instead of one company, its system is much more mature than an enterprise's in-house system.
Mr. Bruno Frentzel's words reminded the journalist an infallible law for modern enterprise operation said by the master managerialist Peter Deluke: "In any enterprise, all work that only plays a role of background support but can not create revenue should be outsourced; any activities and services that do not provide opportunities for development to a higher level should also be outsourced. The final purpose of an enterprise is nothing but to utilize its existing production, management and financial resources in the optimum way." After being simplified, this golden saying means "the maximization of profit and minimization of cost".
In increasingly fierce competition, every company has its core technology, product and market positioning and an enterprise's expansion is dependent on the success of its core business. It can be taken as a practical and effective countermeasure for an enterprise to outsource the important functions that fall beyond the field of its core business to a professional company that is good at this work, so the enterprise can be liberated from that work for making more efforts to develop its core business. According to foreign studies on outsourcing, outsourcing agreement can make an enterprise reduce its cost by 9% and increase its capability and quality by 15% on average. By now, outsourcing service has been greatly acknowledged and extensively adopted in many countries and regions around the world. To do what you are most good at (core competitiveness) and outsource the others has become an irreversible trend.
The journalist has got to know the huge benefits brought about by outsourcing to Air China. Let's take cargo system as an example. If this system were built by Air China itself, RMB200 million would probably be insufficient for perfectly completing the job. Furthermore, it would take about two to three years to build the system. There is also a problem in respect of expertises for building the in-house systems. Because the general staff turn over in IT industry are quite high and it's more difficult to retain computer talents, Air China thinks such a situation allows no self-building of large system at all. However, after SITA's system was leased, the project was put into trial operation only after less than four months of implementation. Furthermore, the initial cost of the project is very low, because the cost is settled according to the amount of data processed. SITA's cargo system is originally designed for serving many users and the quality of the system is very high. In addition, the cost is also very low after amortization. Outsourcing is actually an airline company's choice of the least risk.
At present, it's generally held in the world that it's more appropriate to purchase rather than to independently develop many systems required by the airlines. However, the domestic civil aviation industry has not fully understood this point. It has almost been a very common phenomenon that the domestic civil aviation enterprises always prefer to develop systems by themselves in the past years. Such practices have led to great waste of extremely limited resources. What's more serious is that the time for us to develop market and seize market shares has been wasted.
Mr. Bruno Frentzel thinks that China's air transport industry needs to take the road of outsourcing. While introducing its experience and technologies to China, SITA wishes they would not only benefit InfoSky but also all the customers.
As to the joint venture of SITA and TravelSky, Mr. Bruno Frentzel fully acknowledges the rapid development of InfoSky. He thinks that InfoSky should continuously introduce SITA's technology and products and provide value-added services to developa more complete product portfolio and expanding its business field beyond cargo service. He said that SITA, including InfoSky, should lay its stress on four growth points, i.e. airport application, security system, desktop system and professional service. Bruno is very confident in the future of SITA and InfoSky. In his opinion, SITA has won its unparalleled position in the world and China for the fact that it has always attached high importance on the customers' satisfaction, innovative on technologies and products and never failed to ensure the customers to get the most cost for value services, because of which, SITA has always take a leadership in the air transport service industry.
About SITA
Among the worldwide air transport industry, SITA has more than 700 members and more than 1,800 customers; SITA boasts the world's largest voice and data network covering more than 2,100 sites in over 220 countries and territories; while supporting more than 100 large airlines and aircraft manufacturers around the world, it's smoothly operating AeroNet, the world's first united network for enterprises in the air transport industry; it is rendering various services to more than 500 airports in six continents. ; more than 200 airlines worldwide are using SITA's passenger reservation systems and cargo information systems to ensure stable and integrated airline and airport operations; SITA has been implementing and operating over 15,000 CUTE departure control workstations in more than 140 airports worldwide and has also provided support and supplementation for the most complicated desktop environments in the world; at present, more than 14,000 travel agencies and 90 airlines and increasingly more GDS customers are using ETAS (Electronic Travel Administration System) to carry out visa management; AirCargo is the world's biggest automatic multi-host cargo service system; AirFare is the world's largest shared fare quotation and travel fare service system; SITA boasts the world's biggest baggage tracing system-WorldTracer, which is operated by SITA jointly with International Air Transport Association (IATA); and SITA is also operating the world's largest VHF Aircom network covering more than 500 ground stations in more than 160 counties.
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