Air transport technology provider, SITA, has been selected by the Amazon Airport Concessionaire to implement the SITA Airport Management solution at seven Brazilian VINCI airports.
The SITA Airport Management system assists airport managers and airlines with the management of flight operations, optimises fixed and mobile resources such as check-in counters, baggage reclaim carousels, and manages airport staff during aircraft turnaround. The technology can potentially reduce fuel consumption due to the increased efficiency of operations lowering the amount of time that an aircraft’s engines are running.
SITA will also be providing “SITA Operations Manager”, a database for flight operations data, “SITA Fixed Resource Manager”, used to optimise the use of resources by the airport, and “SITA Information Display System”, a technology that uses displays throughout the airport to keep passengers updated with flight data.
The airports, Manaus Airport; Porto Velho Airport; Rio Branco Airport; Boa Vista Airport; Cruzeiro do Sul Airport; Tabatinga Airport; and Tefé Airport, will have the new systems in service from the second half of 2024, and SITA’s contract to provide the same system at Salvador Bahia Airport has been renewed.
“Brazilian airports are seeing an increasing demand in air traffic, which is why optimizing operations is more important now than ever to ensure the industry can keep up,” said Shawn Gregor, SITA’s President for the Americas. “Solutions like SITA Airport Management can help unlock the operational capabilities of airports across the country, region and on a global scale. We are excited to be expanding our partnership with VINCI Airports, which is responsible for operating more than 70 airports in 14 countries around the world.”
A key feature of SITA’s systems is its interoperability between airports. The seven Brazilian airports in the group will be able to access each other’s data, monitoring key performance indicators for operations and improving efficiency within the Amazon Airport network.
“We are very pleased to continue and expand our partnership with SITA for the use of these technologies,” commented Julio Ribas, CEO of VINCI Airports in Brazil. “2024 has been a positive year of growth, recovery and consolidation of advances in the post-pandemic scenario. In this brand-new time, more than ever, the tools offered by this company will be of great use to us in making decisions that will continue to lead us down a path of success. It will be very exciting to start using these solutions at the airports we manage in the Brazilian Amazon area.”
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