Travelport and Travelsky extends contract
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Travelport Airline IT Solutions(tm), adivision of Travelport serving the IT needs of airlines and travelsuppliers worldwide, today announced that TravelSky, the leadingprovider of information technology solutions for the People’s Republicof China’s (PRC) air travel and tourism industry, and the only GDSlicensed in mainland China to make reservations for all airlines, hasrenewed its commitment to Travelport, extending an agreement for theTravelport E-Ticket Interchange(tm) system and its interline e-ticketing(IET) capabilities. TravelSky has been a Travelport customer for 15years.The TravelSky Technology unit operates the reservations and departurecontrol systems for air carriers in China, and also maintains the globaldistribution system for China’s travel agencies. TravelSky processesmore than 200 million passengers a year in a rapidly growing travelmarket. Its customers include 30 domestic airlines and nearly 200regional and international airlines, 147 domestic airports and 7,000ticket agents, broadening its service range into 300 cities in China, 80overseas cities and into social networking sites.Travelport’s E-Ticket Interchange offers travel industry organizationsand airlines the most advanced, efficient global e-ticketing messageswitching platform. It performs interactive message translation andswitching functions between airline partners for interline e-ticketing,as well as both interactive and control methods for ground handling.Airlines have immediate access to all carriers and ground handlers,representing over 20 different electronic ticketing systems, whoseinterline e-ticket messages are processed through the Interchange. Theinterline electronic ticketing (IET) infrastructure built into theInterchange removes technology barriers by allowing any electronicticket- enabled airline to easily, quickly and cost-effectively connectwith their interline partners. “Travelport has played an important role in helping TravelSky sustainone of the world’s fastest growing travel markets,” said Sue Powers,CEO, Travelport Airline IT Solutions. “We have enabled TravelSky torapidly implement interline agreements and perform interline e-ticketingfunctions for carriers, significantly enhancing overall operationalefficiencies for travel agents in China.” Added Powers, “This helps tosupport TravelSky’s goal to be one of the most efficient travel systemsin the world while satisfying the ever-increasing growth of China’saviation market.” Supporting IT infrastructure in China must offer cost-efficientprocessing solutions to support mission critical functions such asinterline e-ticketing (IET) and seamless message translation betweenpartner airlines. The convenience of interline e-ticketing is a criticalfunction in serving today’s travellers and helps to bring efficiency andworry free travel to TravelSky’s customers, while dramatically reducinginterline electronic ticket (IET) activation costs and time to marketfor member carriers. Travelport’s E-Ticket Interchange (IET) will provide TravelSky withaccess to more than 5,700 interline electronic ticketing connections,over 59 host systems, which includes in excess of 4,600 airlinerelationships and 1,150 ground handling relationships. Also, theE-Ticket Interchange performs interactive message translation andswitching functions for interline e-ticketing, reducing activation costsand time to market while improving implementation efficiency.Travelport has had a physical presence in China since 1996 with officesin Beijing, Shanghi and Guangzhou. The company also has its Asiaheadquarters in Hong Kong.More information about Travelport Airline IT Solutions, a totalsolutions provider for airlines worldwide, is available at:www.travelport.com
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