This month:
ET issuance in airports
In its efforts to support airlines increase their ET penetration, IATA has been tracking ET issuance from stations around the world.
In 2007, IATA created an ET airport map that displays airports that pose the greatest challenge to ET issuance. Each station on the map has two to nine airlines issuing less than 10% ET departing from the station in Dec 2007. Only airlines with over 30% ET penetration and issuing at least 1,000 total coupons departing from the given station were included.
In December 2007, the 3 most prominent airports for which less than 40% of airlines issued ET were:
- Kathmandu KTM (only 7 of 19 airlines with ET)
- Parakar EVN (only 2 of 7 airlines with ET) and
- Pogdorica TGD (only 1 of 5 airlines with ET)
To see how your airline is doing at various airports, consult your new ET by Departing Airport Report on your IATA StB Extranet site. A guidance document is also available for your reference.
Interline ET- State of the industry
While airlines implemented nearly 2,700 IET agreements by the end of 2007, ET issuance for interline tickets was still only at 68%. This leaves about 1/3 of interline journeys still to be converted.
In the last 5 months of the deadline, airlines need to not only implement more IET agreements with their biggest interline partners, but also begin using their existing IET agreements – a quick and easy way to boost ET figures. Download the TOP 50 carriers list here...
Project News
ET
- Global ET penetration reached 91% in IATA BSPs in December. For more information read the project update.
- Read this month's TOP 50 carriers document for a quarterly analysis of the number of IETs implemented and change in rank in the part quarter for this group of airlines.
BCBP
- There are 102 airlines that are issuing BCBP for their passengers. All the details in the BCBP project update.
- The DCS Survey of BCBP capable providers and forecast dates has been recently updated to include more system providers. Download it here...
- Airports Council International has recently published a Common Use IT Handbook, which details industry best practices to be considered for the development of common use IT services including CUSS and BCBP.
IATA e-freight:
- Read more about the industry's use of electronic data through the MIP's industry reports for FWB and FHLs
- If you are participating in MIP--your reports are ready for download in your StB Extranet page
CUSS:
- 85 airports are offering CUSS compliant kiosks worldwide! More details here
- Remember that you can access specific information of an airport's CUSS offering through the CUSS Google Map!
RFID:
- IATA held the first RFID Cross Application Working Group. This group meets to discuss the use of RFID in all areas of aviation including:
- Technical issues in RP1740c and a proposed new RP for the use of passive RFID tags on cargo containers.
- The use of RFID in parts in case studies presented by Airbus
- The use of RFID for aircraft turnaround time presented by the Cambridge Auto-ID centre on the aircraft turnaround work sponsored by IATA and SITA.
- Materials from the presentation are available on the Baggage Working Group member’s site. To gain access contact Chris Miles.
Events
- Don't miss the IATA e-freight track, which will include a special session on MIP, at the 2008 World Cargo Symposium taking place in Rome. More information here...
- Stay alert for information on BCBP & CUSS workshops in 2008 coming to a location in your region. More news to come soon!
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