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Award recognizes SITA's role in the Beijing Olymics and its record in air transport innovation
At the 2009 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan Aerospace & Defence Awards ceremony, SITA was named as Airport Support Service Provider of the Year. The award follows extensive research by Frost & Sullivan into airport service providers based in Asia Pacific. SITA's long history of achievement in the region was identified as its core strength and the company's position as market leader has been confirmed by its high profile contribution to the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The award recognizes SITA as a trusted IT services provider working with over 120 airports and 260 airlines in Asia Pacific.
Transforming airline operations at airports
Delays on the ground result in billions of dollars of avoidable costs. Our latest New Frontiers paper, 'Transforming airline operations at airports - using handheld devices' looks ahead to the next few years as mobility evolves.
Ten technology advances that will change air travel
SITA marked its 60th anniversary in February 2009 with the launch of a New Frontiers paper discussing how next generation technologies will dramatically impact the business of air transport.
Global Airline IT Security Survey 2009
Despite the global recession, our survey found an encouraging level of spending on IT security.
SITA - 60 years on... touching the lives of almost every air passenger in the world
When 11 airlines signed an agreement to pool their telecommunications facilities on 23 February 1949, they called the resulting cooperative organization the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques.
Originally set up as a not-for-profit membership organization, SITA's primary objective was to "eliminate the present excessive delays" in dealing with messages among the airlines, with the added "benefit to the public of speedier reservations."1
Sixty years later the vision of working together to improve the efficiency of the entire air transport industry continues to underpin everything SITA stands for.
Today, SITA is run commercially and also includes a for-profit business. The company now touches the lives of almost every air passenger in almost every corner of the globe, through the provision of services to over 550 air transport industry members and 3,200 customers. SITA is now based in more than 335 locations worldwide.
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