Source: SITA   Amid skyrocketing traffic, passengers look to digitalization to upgrade their travel experience, SITA 2024 Passenger IT Insights report finds In 2023, air travel soared, surpassing industry expectations. IATA predictions suggest that demand will only continue to grow, reaching 8 billion global passengers by 2040. Ensuring the passenger journey is smooth and efficient will be more important than ever for the industry to manage this growth. According to SITA's newly released 2024 Passenger IT Insights report, travelers see technology as the key, eagerly embracing innovations like mobile-enabled Digital Travel. Passengers already use their mobile devices as a remote control for the journey, with high adoption across key stages like booking, dwell time, and baggage collection. Taking this a [...]

Source: SITA SITA, the global leader in technology solutions for the air transport industry, has appointed Shawn Gregor as President of the Americas and Selim Bouri as President of the Middle East and Africa region. The two bring extensive management experience in the travel & transport, telecommunications, and information technology sectors to SITA. Shawn's background includes overseeing digital transformation programs for clients within the aviation sector, with a geographical focus spanning the Americas, including work in the United States and Canada. His career has featured numerous leadership roles, most recently serving as Vice President and Industry Leader for Travel and Transportation at IBM. Prior to his tenure at IBM, Shawn made substantial contributions at Infosys Technologies Limited and Accenture, where [...]

Source: SiTA SITA, a leading technology company in the air transport industry, will be leveraging Ericsson-owned Cradlepoint technology as part of its transformative cloud-based secure mobile to Wi-Fi solutions. SITA Mobile to Wi-Fi includes Cradlepoint routers and NetCloud Manager, a cloud-based network management platform, that will ensure best-in-class customer service and network performance through a fully managed service. SITA Mobile to Wi-Fi provides everything from initial ordering through delivery, implementation, support and on-going maintenance. Martin Smillie, SITA SVP for Communications and Data Exchange (CDE) said: “This collaboration brings together two industry leaders and provides compelling cloud-based mobile to Wi-Fi communications technology for our airport customers. By combining our SITA suite of innovative solutions with Cradlepoint Wireless WAN solutions we are [...]