Open Skies by Navitaire Wins Best Provider of Web Transaction Systems
ATTIS Award Recognizes the Skylights® Web-Based Reservations System
Minneapolis; May 6, 2002: Navitaire has been awarded the "Best Provider of Web Transaction Systems" by Air Transport and Travel Information Systems (ATTIS). The award recognizes Open Skies by Navitaire's reservations system, which provides web-based reservations systems for the airline and travel industries.
Airline customers who use Skylights have the highest Internet booking ratios in the industry, which translates into dramatic costs savings. The system combines a streamlined booking process with low cost access and the ability to offer discounted or special fares to travelers, travel agents, and corporations. In addition, the Skylights system is created with templates structured for easy integration with an airline's website 'look and feel', enabling rapid and cost effective implementation.
ATTIS EXPO organizer Keith Magnay said, "Open Skies by Navitaire provides a set of web tools that enable direct selling, reduce staff requirements, avoid costly settlement systems, and can provide all these functions without third parties such as IATA, BSP's, GDS's and clearing houses."
One airline customer said that Navitaire's Skylights product has saved the airline 18 million Euros per year in distribution costs. Fourteen Navitaire customers currently use the Skylights system including: JetBlue, Virgin Express, Virgin Blue, RyanAir, Go Fly and AirTran. The ATTIS awards are largely contingent upon customer recommendation and referral.
In addition to expanded booking channels, Open Skies' InstantPay feature, used in combination with a truly ticketless environment, enables real-time revenue reporting, thereby eliminating many of the traditional airline revenue accounting tasks and delays. InstantPay's immediate revenue reporting will often eliminate up to thirty days from an airlines' typical revenue cycle.
About Navitaire
Navitaire Inc. is a pioneer in the application service provider (ASP) industry, providing industry leading passenger revenue accounting technology to airline customers since 1993. The ASP delivery model makes it possible to offer industry-leading applications, with reduced implementation time and risk, ensured operational reliability, and a cost-effective fee structure. A wide array of Navitaire products, including revenue management systems and integrated ticketless/e-commerce solutions, provide airlines throughout the world with leading revenue producing solutions, while maintaining low costs.
Navitaire's customer base consists of over 40 worldwide clients, including 9 of the world's 25 largest airlines, as well as a growing base of smaller airlines. Navitaire is headquartered in Minneapolis, with offices in Phoenix, Salt Lake, Sydney and Manila. Navitaire is an affiliate company of Accenture.
About ATTIS EXPO 2002
The Air Transport and Travel Information Systems 2002 Expo and Conferences - the world's largest event for IT in air transport and travel - consists of a three-day, 2,000 square metre exhibition and six parallel seminars and workshops covering business and information technology issues and products in the Airline, Airport, Travel Distribution, Air Cargo, Ground Handling and MRO sectors as well as specialist process areas such as resource allocation, passenger technology and passenger safety. The main event sponsor was KLM Systems Services with Aviation Informatics as the sponsoring magazine.
Contact:
Susan Adelman
Navitaire Inc.
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