Air transport communications specialist SITA has doubled the speed airlines can exchange the electronic data that is vital for the functioning of the air transport industry.
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This will allow SITA to manage the major peaks in traffic at airports worldwide smoothly this summer and in particular from July for the London 2012 Olympic Games.At Heathrow Airport, 80,000 extra passengers are expected to arrive over a fortnight with two peak days, and departures will be compressed into just three days.
One of these will be the busiest day in Heathrow’s history, when it will have 45 per cent more departures than on a normal day.Electronic data exchange, commonly referred to in the air transport industry as SITA Messaging, underpins every aspect of operations with close to 100 million messages carried between airlines, airports, government regulators, suppliers and partners each day.
Airlines transmit information regarding flights, passengers, crew, cargo and baggage and also exchange messages with various partners.Rukmini Glanard, SITA vice president, communications and infrastructure, said: “SITA is the community provider of messaging and we have more than sixty years of experience providing the most reliable and effective service.
“Our messaging is the glue that enables the whole industry to communicate and to operate effectively.
“Our recent investment has led to significant improvements in performance that have exceeded even our own expectations.
“Our capacity to receive messages has doubled and we can now send more than twice the number of messages per second as previously.”
This will allow SITA to manage the major peaks in traffic at airports worldwide smoothly this summer and in particular from July for the London 2012 Olympic Games.At Heathrow Airport, 80,000 extra passengers are expected to arrive over a fortnight with two peak days, and departures will be compressed into just three days.
One of these will be the busiest day in Heathrow’s history, when it will have 45 per cent more departures than on a normal day.Electronic data exchange, commonly referred to in the air transport industry as SITA Messaging, underpins every aspect of operations with close to 100 million messages carried between airlines, airports, government regulators, suppliers and partners each day.
Airlines transmit information regarding flights, passengers, crew, cargo and baggage and also exchange messages with various partners.Rukmini Glanard, SITA vice president, communications and infrastructure, said: “SITA is the community provider of messaging and we have more than sixty years of experience providing the most reliable and effective service.
“Our messaging is the glue that enables the whole industry to communicate and to operate effectively.
“Our recent investment has led to significant improvements in performance that have exceeded even our own expectations.
“Our capacity to receive messages has doubled and we can now send more than twice the number of messages per second as previously.”
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