Qantas Deploys Sabre AirFlite Suite Systems to Improve Flight Schedule Planning
March 09 2004 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Qantas Deploys Sabre AirFlite Suite Systems to Improve Flight
Schedule Planning Advanced Planning Tools Provide Australia's
Leading Carrier the Ability To Profitably Schedule Flights Up to
Three Years Into the Future SOUTHLAKE, Texas, March 9 /PRNewswire/
-- Sabre Airline Solutions, the industry leader in airline
operations technology, today announced that Qantas Airlines has
gone live with Release 10 of Sabre AirFlite Schedule Manager and
Profit Manager, providing automation of the flight scheduling and
route evaluation processes. With over 60 airline customers
worldwide, AirFlite is the industry standard for scheduling
software solutions. All of the top 10 airlines globally are using
at least one of the AirFlite suite's scheduling products. While
Release 10 of the product has been in rigorous testing for several
months, AirFlite Schedule Manager is now live, running all Qantas'
long haul schedule planning. Schedule Manager is being used to
evaluate Qantas' route and network decisions up to three years in
advance. Currently four other global customers are poised to join
Qantas with implementation of the system, going live by the middle
of 2004. Qantas has undertaken the first live implementation of the
Release 10 version of the AirFlite suite. This release employs
state-of-the-art, multi- user, Java Oracle technology to improve
performance, usability, and integration resulting in faster,
easier, and smarter scheduling. Smooth implementation has also been
a goal of development work. "I have been very pleased with the
smooth introduction that Sabre Airline Solutions has achieved with
Schedule Manager," said David Round, Manager Network Systems &
Communication, Qantas. "As the first airline to go live with the
new system version, we were expecting some initial problems but we
have been impressed with the system and support we have received
from Sabre staff. As a result of the easy rollout of these products
and the performance of AirFlite suite to date, Qantas plans to also
go live with Release 10 of AirFlite Fleet Manager in the first half
of 2004. Fleet Manager enables an airline to optimally allocate
capacity to improve the profitability of a schedule employing a
patented O&D passenger flow model in its global
optimizationtechnique. In addition, Qantas has also committed to
the purchase of Release 10 of the Sabre SlotManager system, which
will allow them to manage and track slot rights at slot-coordinated
airports, and streamline the slot request process. Cameron Curtis,
vice president, Asia Pacific said, "We offer our client base a
proven migration path to this new platform using our PC-based
systems (PC AirFlite). When our clients want to take the next step
in terms of advanced planning and scheduling functionality and
optimization techniques -- we are ready. We are noticing an
increased awareness of the value of schedule and market
profitability analysis. Airlines need tools to manage market
demand, airline constraints and profitability data so that they
canmake schedule, network and fleeting decisions quickly and
accurately. These are decisions with a high dollar impact that
can't be done manually in many cases." About Sabre Airline
Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions, a Sabre Holdings company, is the
world's largest provider of software products, reservation and
departure control systems and consulting services to help airlines
simplify operations and lower costs. Over 200 airlines worldwide
use Sabre Airline Solution's broad portfolio of software solutions
for decision-support tools to increase revenues and improve
operations. Over 100 airlines worldwide rely on Sabre Airline
Solutions for passenger management solutions, with 15 new carriers
added and nine carriers renewals for SabreSonic Res advanced
reservations and departure control systems in 2003. In addition,
more than 100 clients worldwide have turned to Sabre Airline
Solutions consulting group for strategic, commercial and
operational consulting. More than 500 contracts worldwide
weresigned in 2003 within Sabre Airline Solutions. Sabre Holdings
Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce,
retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology
solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre
Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com/ . Sabre
Airline Solutions, the Sabre Airline Solutions logo, SabreSonic and
AirFlite are trademarks and/or service marks of an affiliate of
Sabre Holdings Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks,
and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Sabre Airline Solutions CONTACT: Kathryn Hayden of
Sabre Airline Solutions, +1-682-605-2252, or Web site:
http://www.sabre-holdings.com/
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