Community solutions

SITA community solutions fall into four areas:

SITA works with numerous industry associations, governments and customer groups to develop innovative solutions for community-wide issues. Our solutions ensure interoperability through shared infrastructure and cost-effective use of technologies.

Increasing demand for information sharing, coupled with increasing dependency on online systems, make interoperability between multiple stakeholders critical. SITA know-how spearheads common-use technologies, in addition to hosted solutions and open information technology (IT) standards.

 

Communications and infrastructure

Airport Hubs

Providing common-use facilities for airlines in the airport environment

  • Consist of a wide area network (WAN) and virtual local area network (VLAN) infrastructure
  • Deployed in airports worldwide
  • Deliver Internet protocol (IP) and legacy services over a shared infrastructure
  • Participating airports experience 10-25 percent cost savings

AirportConnect CUTE (formerly CUTE XP)

Enables airlines and handling agents to access their own systems from common-use workstations and printers

  • Supports passenger processing applications such as departure control and boarding systems

AirportConnect Open

Enables airlines to access their own dedicated applications in a common-use environment

  • Allows airlines to use both CUTE and in-house applications within the same secure environment

Airport Connect Kiosk

Self-service check-in used by a single airline in a dedicated environment or by multiple airlines in a common-use self-service (CUSS) environment

  • Fully compliant with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) CUSS specifications
  • Uses latest touch screen technology

SITA Voice Exchange

Reduces communication costs

  • Provides a secure, efficient and reliable alternative to the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

Type B

The world leader in air transport messaging

  • Provides common link to the world's major airlines, aerospace and government agencies
  • Used by more than 1,800 of the world's larges air transport and travel-related companies

.aero

The world's first industry-based top level Internet domain (TLD)

  • Introduced in 2002 as an initiative run exclusively by and for the aviation community
  • Defines and implements its own policies to safeguard its integrity (cannot be achieved in original public domain structure of .com, .net, etc.)

> www.information.aero

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Baggage operations

BagMessage

A fast message distribution system that mediates between multiple DCSs and baggage systems

  • Designed to help cut costs by reducing the number of communication connections between airlines and airports need

WorldTracer

Developed by SITA and co-sponsored by IATA

  • A fully automated service for lost and mishandled baggage based on a single shared database
  • Used by more than 350 airlines and ground handling companies
  • Meets the needs of code share partners as well as alliances
  • Adapted to use Internet, SMS, WAP, RFID, Integrated Voice Recognition, dedicated kiosks and CUSS kiosks

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Cargo Operations

Cargo Community System (CCS)

A global EDI solution and message exchange to enable seamless communications for air freight shipments

  • EDI messaging increases operational efficiencies, reduces communication cost and improves logistics planning and customer service

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Aircraft Operations

Aviareto

A joint venture between SITA and Irish Government interests

  • Established a contract with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Supervisory Authority of the International Registry, to establish and operate the International Registry of Mobile Assets for the benefit of users
  • As part of the implementation process for The Cape Town Convention, the Secretary General of ICAO had issued a global public tender in January 2004 for an organization to establish, and act as Registrar for, the International Registry of Mobile Assets. Aviareto, based in Dublin, was selected for the undertaking

CertiPath

The world's first commercial public key infrastructure (PKI) bridge

  • Created to enable use of secure, trusted identities by enforcing a common standard across all member companies
  • A joint venture between SITA, ARINC and EXOSTAR

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