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Innovation and community

Environment

SITA helps the ATI meet new environmental requirements

While the ATI continues to face a challenging business environment, new environmental regulations and reporting requirements are also having a significant impact on business practices.

In October 2009, SITA announced that 12 airline members of the Arab Air Carriers Organization will be the first to deploy SITA's Aircraft Emissions Manager, the world's only monitoring, reporting and verification software tool specially designed to accurately measure carbon emissions and fuel burn in tonne-kilometres as mandated by new EU requirements.

SITA has a comprehensive Environment Programme to help the ATI:

Implement services to support environmental regulations
Increase operational improvement by exploiting Information Technology
Answer carbon footprint and offset requirements

> Read more about SITA's Environment Programme

Membership

Columbia Jet Service now a SITA Member

In June 2009, we were very pleased to welcome Columbia Jet Service as a new SITA member.

ACC COLUMBIA Jet Service GmbH (who changed their name in October 2009 following the merger of ACC Flugzeugwartung GmbH and Columbia Jet Service GmbH) is an aircraft repair and maintenance organization for small, mid-size and large-cabin private aviation and transport category aircraft with major facilities at the airports in Hannover (Germany) and Cologne (Germany) and satellite stations in Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Pafos (Cyprus).

SITA Membership will bring significant benefits to ACC Columbia JetService GmbH, and we are delighted to welcome them into our community.

If you would like to learn how to become a SITA member and benefit from our various advantages, including network redistribution charges, please contact your Account Manager or Sophie Schell.

Celebrating Anniversaries

Aeroflot celebrates 50 years with SITA

At a special 50th anniversary membership workshop for Aeroflot last June, SITA was proud to mark the occasion by presenting a commemorative plaque to the company's CIO, Sergey Kirushin. Since 1959, Aeroflot has collaborated closely with SITA to pioneer modern technologies and air transport industry processes - both in Russia and more widely in CIS. Most notably, Aeroflot helped drive the deployment of Flight Briefing, SITA Departure Control Services and AIRCOM services.

Air Berlin marks 30 years of membership

On 28th April 1979, Air Berlin welcomed 178 passengers on board its Boeing707 for its first flight, with the destination of Palma de Mallorca. Today the company is the second largest airline in Germany, transporting more than 28 million passengers in 2008. It also has one of the youngest fleets in Europe with 125 aircraft.

Outstanding price-performance and perfect service have always been the drivers of this successful company, which in 2009, still reports year-on-year revenue growth. Air Berlin has always been a member of SITA and celebrates its 30th anniversary of membership this year.

Congratulations and thank you very much!

Germania commemorates 30 years with SITA

Founded as Special Air Transport (SAT), the company assigned its AOC to a sister company named Germania in June 1986. Germania is now a well-known airline for flights from Germany to destinations throughout Europe. Business segments include charter, leasing, especially wet-leasing, as well as individual ticket sales on certain routes. Germania, respectively SAT, became a member of SITA early and celebrates its 30th anniversary of membership this year.