The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has chosen SITA’s Airport Management System for use at ten airports across India; Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Calicut, Jaipur, Mangalore, Pune, Trichy, Trivandrum and Guwahati.
The seven-year, multi-million dollar deal is part of a US$130 billion airport modernisation project from the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation. It comes as India prepares for annual passenger numbers to triple to 450 million by 2020.
SITA has partnered with NIIT Technologies Ltd for this first multi-airport project in Asia to implement Airport Operations Control Centers (AOCC).
Mr V P Agrawal, Chairman, AAI in his message to the Aviation ICT Forum 2013 said the AAI is integrating and automating airport operations at ten of its airports including Chennai and Kolkata. Once implemented successfully, it will help implement Airport Collaborative Decision Making (ACDM) which will greatly enhance both capacity and efficiency of the airport operations thereby making them more cost effective.
27/09/13 Airports International
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The seven-year, multi-million dollar deal is part of a US$130 billion airport modernisation project from the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation. It comes as India prepares for annual passenger numbers to triple to 450 million by 2020.
SITA has partnered with NIIT Technologies Ltd for this first multi-airport project in Asia to implement Airport Operations Control Centers (AOCC).
Mr V P Agrawal, Chairman, AAI in his message to the Aviation ICT Forum 2013 said the AAI is integrating and automating airport operations at ten of its airports including Chennai and Kolkata. Once implemented successfully, it will help implement Airport Collaborative Decision Making (ACDM) which will greatly enhance both capacity and efficiency of the airport operations thereby making them more cost effective.
27/09/13 Airports International
