This year, in April, the Indonesia’s state-owned airport operator, PT Angkasa Pura signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with SITA to provide IT solutions in its airports in order to create and develop new “Intelligent Airport’s”.
PT Angkasa Pura is an Indonesian state company, under the control of the ministry of Indonesian Transport, in charge of the exploitation of airports. It owns two entities:
- PT Angkasa Pura I (created in 1964), which operates 13 airports
- PT Angkasa Pura II (created in 1984), which operates 12 airports
SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques) is the world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and IT solutions. The company delivers and manage business solutions for airline airport, GDS, government all over the world. It has around 4.500 employees worldwide and provides services to over 550 members and 3.200 customers.
The first airport from the PT Angkasa Pura’s portfolio, which will be quipped with the new SITA services, will be the International Terminal at Ngurah Rai Airport, which is the most foreign tourist arrival in Indonesia. Those IT solutions will help the airport to provide new passengers services with the latest technology using real-time information.
The service provided by SITA will be focus on business intelligence, infrastructure and operational efficiency. To make this implementation more efficient, SITA will work with both the airlines present in the airport and the airport operator.
The new services provided by SITA will be, Aircom services (aircraft communications links for pilot, air-ground communications), new check-in kiosks, luggage tracking network, Wi-Fi networks or Applications Service Providers solutions.
The objective fixed by PT Angkasa Pura to SITA is to complete the all installation before Indonesia hosts the Asia Pacific Co-operation summit in Bali.
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