PassengerBoarding
Remains operational even when the airline departure control system (DCS) or a communications circuit has failed
PassengerBoarding is a boarding terminal emulator (TE) used to carry out both, online and offline boarding. It is a solution for airlines that require a graphical user interface (GUI), boarding gate reader (BGR) and 2D barcode reader for boarding passengers, either on a remote host system, or locally without a host.
Overview
Airlines boarding passengers at locations where a host is not available require an application to count passengers based on the presentation of ATB (automated and ticketing boarding) or with 2D barcode boarding passes. PassengerBoarding can satisfy the needs of airlines needing local boarding application or as an online boarding TE with back-up local boarding capability.
This standalone software product provides enhanced functionality to CUTE users, enabling them to board aircraft using the magnetic strip on CUTE boarding passes to identify passengers.
SITA’s PassengerBoarding has been designed for a wide range of CUTE users – particularly those airlines with a departure control system (DCS), but without the ability to work with the boarding pass gate readers (BGRs) commonly found at gates on CUTE installations.
Using PassengerBoarding provides comprehensive boarding functionality, online with the DCS system, while maintaining information about the boarded passengers locally so that it is available in case the communications of the DCS system itself fails.
Benefits
Benefits of PassengerBoarding include:
- Simple to use
- Improvement in security (passengers are reconciled based on magnetically encoded ATB passes)
- Improved boarding gate efficiency
- Reduced boarding time
- Improved passenger service
- Money savings
- No need for additional hardware
- No Host DCS application changes required for customer airline
- Shorter turnarounds
Features
Features of PassengerBoarding include:
- Eliminates manual counting of coupons and manual registration of passengers
- Provides more time for staff to interact with passengers and to give better service
- Automates boarding, which helps keep flights on schedule
- Uses boarding gate reader machines, present at CUTE gates
- Checks for the correct flight number on the correct date
- Checks that the seat number is not a duplicate
- Cuts the boarding card and returns stub to passenger
- Perform checks instantly, without interrupting passenger flow
- Registers passenger details
- Gives agents visibility to all information so know exactly how many passengers are on the aircraft and who they are
- Identifies and locates baggage on board
- Provides comprehensive printed reports, both online and offline
- Supports multiple BGRs at a gate, multiple CUTE workstations, and simultaneous boarding of many flights
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