Source: SITA The achievement is a year ahead of the organization’s original target SITA, the world’s leading IT provider for the air transport industry, announced it has achieved CarbonNeutral® company certification. This major milestone – realized a full year ahead of SITA’s original target of 2022 – resulted from decisive actions to significantly reduce emissions associated with its business operations in 2020. SITA has reduced its overall emissions of greenhouse gases by 48% between 2019 and 2020. SITA’s UN recognized carbon neutrality Planet+ program has been key to lowering the company’s emissions with initiatives designed to create sustainable and energy-efficient workplaces and reduce internal business travel. SITA also compensates 100% of any carbon emissions that it has been unable to [...]

Source: SITA SITA takes the lead in deploying predictive data analytics for co-innovating with customer airlines and airports to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel savings. SITA, the global IT provider for the air transport industry, announced the acquisition of Safety Line S.A.S., the Paris based start-up specializing in digital solutions for aviation safety and efficiency. This acquisition will strengthen SITA's Digital Day of Operations portfolio, helping airlines drive more efficiencies and fuel savings around the aircraft while taking immediate and sustainable steps to reduce their carbon footprint. With air transport accounting for about 3% of the worldwide carbon emissions, there is growing pressure on airlines to reduce their overall emissions. At the same time the COVID-19 pandemic requires airlines to make [...]

Source: SITA - Using blockchain, the mobile application creates a secure travel credential that is accepted by airlines, hotels and partners without sharing private medical information. SITA, in partnership with Indicio.tech and the Aruba Department of Health, is testing the Aruba Health mobile app, a pilot project that makes it easy for visitors to share a confidential traveler credential, based on their health status, privately and secure directly from your mobile devices. This credential will provide access to participating hospitality points on the island. Aruba is focused on rebuilding its tourism industry after the COVID-19 pandemic, thus ensuring that the risk of infection for people visiting the island is minimized. The island has been less affected by the pandemic than [...]

Source: IAMA   Version 2.0 includes important new updates to promote efficiency   IAMA, the Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance, released version 2.0 of its Rulebook this week. The latest edition of the freshly updated resource is available online to alliance member organizations, while airlines and lessors can request access through a free membership. Launched in March 2020, the Rulebook strives to address lessor, operator and owner needs throughout the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) lifecycle. Instructing aircraft modifiers for both commercial and business aviation in best practices for achieving superior modifications through STCs, the Rulebook is an essential industry resource. “We are working to develop customer-centric standards to encompass the entire STC lifecycle,” said Nicole Noack, managing director of IAMA. “One [...]

Source: SITA   The new solution reduces management costs by 90% and also significantly reduces recovery time   SITA launched the WorldTracer Lost and Found Property, an AI-enabled solution that solves a million dollar problem for the airport industry: how to quickly return forgotten items on airplanes or airports to their respective owners.   Every year, passengers leave millions of items like wallets, purses and phones on airplanes and airports, costing the industry millions of dollars in recovery costs. It can cost up to $95 to manage and recover each lost item, including registration, handling customer calls and inquiries, warehousing and postage.   The Lost and Found Property applies SITA's WorldTracer solution is already used by most of the world's [...]