Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Over 7,000 Airbus aircraft have been ordered by more than 250 customers worldwide since the company first entered the market in the early seventies. Of these over 4,500 aircraft have already been delivered, leaving a healthy order book in excess of 2,500 aircraft for delivery over the coming years. With an annual turnover of around 26 billion euros in 2006, Airbus is a global company, employing some 55,000 people of over 88 different nationalities in design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, as well as subsidiaries in the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and the Middle East. Airbus also operates spare parts and training centres in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, and provides round-the-clock support services to all Airbus operators, helping them enhance the profitability of their fleets. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus is an EADS company

http://www.airbus.com

1985-2007 22 YEARS OF INNOVATION

Headquartered in Dublin and with offices in Seattle, New York, Miami, Singapore and Sydney, AWAS is one of the world’s premier aircraft leasing and trading companies. Established in 1985, AWAS has enjoyed a strong tradition of excellent service since its inception. 

The company’s highly specialized team of aviation industry experts offers a wide range of services, including aircraft leasing, aircraft trading and sale & lease back transactions. 

It has a fleet of 142 modern jet aircraft including a full range of aircraft from Airbus and Boeing.  Their fleet is comprised of aircraft such as A300-600R, A320 & A321, A330 & A340, Boeing 737CG & 737NG, 757-200/200PF/200PCF, 767-200ER/-300ER, 747-300/-400, 777- 200ER, MD-80 and Fokker 70. 

AWAS currently works with 72 different customers and is active in 43 different countries around the world, including markets throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia/ Pacific.  Their customers include some of the world’s best known airlines including BMI, KLM, Cathay Pacific, Air China, Air New Zealand and American Airlines.

http://www.awas.com

The Boeing Company is the world's leading aerospace company and manufacturer of commercial jetliners.  Boeing airplanes are in service with 990 operators worldwide and make up more than 75 percent of the world fleet.  By focusing intensely on customers and the dynamic, complex air travel marketplace, Boeing develops valuable innovations in technology and products that benefit operators and the traveling public.  Boeing's industry-leading family of products and services deliver comprehensive customer solutions that contribute to a safe and efficient global air transportation system.

http://www.boeing.com

Bombardier Aerospace, a group of Bombardier Inc., is the world’s third largest civil aircraft manufacturer and a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative aviation products and services for the regional, business and amphibious aircraft markets. It also offers fractional ownership through its Flexjet program, aircraft charter and management through Skyjet and Skyjet International, technical services, aircraft maintenance, pilot training, as well as military aircrew training. In the last months, Bombardier Aerospace launched its 100-seat CRJ1000 regional aircraft program and confirmed that it continues to evaluate the proposed CSeries family of airliners for the lower end of the 100- to149-seat commercial aircraft market. Bombardier Inc.,a global corporation headquartered in Canada, had revenues of $14.8 billion US for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2007.

http://www.bombardier.com

CFM International is the world's leading manufacturer of aircraft engines in the 100Pax+ aircraft market, with a wide family of engines powering 29 aircraft models for 480 customers/operators worldwide both in the commercial as well as the military sectors. Close to 50 percent of the 17600 aircraft ordered in the 100Pax+ market since 1984, the year of introduction of the 737Classic, are powered by CFM56 engines.

http://www.cfm56.com/

EDS has more than 9,000 people serving more than 300 transportation clients, including 109 domestic and international air carriers as well as airports, airport ground handling agencies, travel and hospitality companies, freight and distribution businesses, both passenger and cargo rail carriers, and governmental agencies. EDS has been providing IT services to clients for more than 40 years and is the world leading airline IT services provider.

ABOUT EDS
EDS (NYSE: EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 40 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad
portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world.

http://www.eds.com/industries/transportation/

Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. - NYSE: ERJ; Bovespa: EMBR3) is the world’s largest manufacturer of Commercial jets up to 120 seats, and one of Brazil's leading exporters. Founded in 1969, as a state-owned company, and privatized in 1994, the Company designs, develops, manufactures and sells aircraft for the Commercial Aviation, Executive Aviation, and Defense and Government segments. Embraer's headquarters are located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, and it has offices, manufacturing facilities and customer service locations in Brazil, the United States, France, Portugal, China and Singapore. The Company also provides after sales support and services to customers worldwide. On December 31, 2006, Embraer had a workforce of 19,265 employees and a firm order backlog of US$ 14.8 billion.

http://www.embraer.com

GE Aviation is one of the world’s leading producers of large and small jet engines for commercial and military aircraft. GE also supplies aircraft-derived engines for marine applications and a complete range of services that enhance customer value.

GE Aviation's technological excellence, supported by continuing investments in research and development, has been the foundation of growth and helps ensure quality products that exceed customer requirements. GE Aviation continues to pioneer the world of flight by making it more reliable, quieter, and more energy efficient.  The GE90 is the sole power for the Boeing 777-300ER and 777-200LR, and the world’s most powerful engine. The GEnx engine now under development is the best-selling engine for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.  The GE90 and GEnx contain composite materials unprecedented in jet engines. GE Aviation and Honda are developing a new class of jet engines to bring new levels of reliability and durability to the small business jet industry.  CFM International, a 50/50 joint company of GE and Snecma (SAFRAN Group), produces the best-selling airlines jet engines in aviation history.  

http://www.geae.com/

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate.  Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of on demand business through focusing on innovation that matters.

In addition, IBM has the industry experience and business consulting capabilities to help Airlines transform and differentiate themselves to meet the needs of the on demand era:  to set priorities, to find leverage and innovation points, to put theory into practice, and to deliver short-term ROI with a plan for long-term effectiveness. 

http://www.ibm.com/industries/travel

KPMG provides advice to publicly and privately owned regional and global airlines. Our teams combine sector knowledge with a range of skills in the related disciplines of audit, accounting, project finance, transaction management, risk management and taxation. We use our understanding of airline issues, including assessment and management of risk, performance measurement, finance and leasing, cross border tax structuring and the aim to stimulate and manage revenue growth whilst minimising cost, as the basis of our advice. Our global airline group gives us access to knowledgeable and skilled professionals across KPMG’s global network of member firms. KPMG is a member of the IATA Finance Committee, and has a long established role acting as technical accounting advisor to Fincom’s Accounting Working Group.
 
KPMG International is the coordinating entity for a global network of professional services firms, providing audit, tax, and advisory services with an industry focus. The aim of KPMG is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of their clients, people, and the capital markets. With nearly 113,000 people worldwide, member firms provide audit, tax, and advisory services from cities in 148 countries.

http://www.kpmg.com

L.E.K. Consulting LLC is an international management consulting firm whose experts partner with executives around the world to make the most difficult and critical business decisions – quickly and with optimal results. Building on deep industry knowledge and experience, they help the world's leading airlines, aerospace companies and airports address challenges, leverage opportunities, and create value across their entire operations, ranging from loyalty programs, sales force effectiveness and new product introductions to optimizing flight operations and engineering and maintenance - not only to reduce costs but also to improve asset utilization. L.E.K. Consulting LLC’s portfolio of services draws on core capabilities of research, benchmarking, modeling, analysis and strategy development to help companies determine with precision the best way forward.

http://www.lek.com

Lufthansa Systems is one of the world’s leading IT service providers for the airline and aviation industry. It has around 3,320 employees in several locations in Germany and offices in 15 countries. Its portfolio addresses all airline business processes and includes services for passenger and cargo handling, flight operations, and aircraft maintenance and repair.

As a system integrator with one of the most state-of-the-art data centers in Europe, Lufthansa Systems covers the entire spectrum of IT services including consulting, application development and implementation, and reliable 24-hour operation.

http://www.lhsystems.com

Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.

Pratt & Whitney has more than 17,000 commercial aircraft engines in service with hundreds of airlines around the world.  Through the company’s Global Service Partners organization, Pratt & Whitney has a one-of-a-kind global network of 25 overhaul and repair centers with flexible service solutions for Pratt & Whitney products and other engines.

Additionally, Pratt & Whitney is a leading partner in two joint venture companies that manufacture commercial aircraft engines: International Aero Engines, which makes the V2500 for the Airbus A320 family of aircraft, and the Engine Alliance, whose GP7200 engine is FAR 33 certified for the new Airbus A380.

http://www.pratt-whitney.com/

Rolls-Royce, the world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, operates in four global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy. It continues to invest in core technologies, products, people and capabilities with the objective of broadening and strengthening the product portfolio, improving efficiency and enhancing the environmental performance of its products.
 
The company has a broad customer base comprising 600 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, more than 2,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and energy customers in 120 countries.  Rolls-Royce is a technology leader, employing 38,000 people in 50 countries.

Annual sales total £7.4 billion, of which 53 per cent are services revenues.  The firm and announced order book is £26.1 billion, of which aftermarket services represent 38 per cent, providing visibility of future levels of activity. 

http://www.rolls-royce.com

SITA works to transform the air transport industry’s approach to doing business, through the effective use of communication and IT services. As a community of over 600 airline, airport, aerospace, cargo and GDS members with over 55 years of experience – it delivers technologies and services that:

• Support core industry processes and operations
• Optimize operational performance
• Deliver high business impact

By bringing communication and application components together into a coherent whole, SITA is able to link technologies in a way that reduces complexity and eliminates process inefficiencies, while giving customers access to high value services. SITA’s integrated portfolio includes solutions that span passenger services, aircraft operations, airports and transportation security.

SITA’s ownership by representatives of the air transport community gives it a remit to use technology to solve multi-stakeholder industry issues. It achieves this in three ways:

• Developing community systems
• Driving industry standards
• Building shared infrastructures

This role has enabled SITA to innovate at the industry level by developing groundbreaking systems such as Aviareto, the international aircraft registry, and Certipath, for secure electronic identity management, as well as common-use check-in systems, such as CUTE and CUSS. SITA also sponsor the .aero Top Level Domain name on behalf of the aviation community.

SITA’s customer satisfaction ratings and customer retention figures stood at record levels in 2005.

Results for 2005 were: 

• US$ 1.55 billion revenue in 2005 for the SITA organization.
• Customer satisfaction score of approximately 4 out of 5 (average rating).

http://www.sita.aero

Snecma, a SAFRAN group company, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of aircraft and rocket engines, with a wide range of propulsion systems on offer. The company designs and builds commercial aircraft engines that are powerful, reliable, economical and environmentally friendly, along with military aircraft engines that have always delivered world-class performance. Snecma also develops and produces propulsion systems and equipment for launchers, satellites and space vehicles.

http://www.snecma.com

Securing your future
Service Excellence for our combined success

Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, serving aerospace,   security, services and defence markets worldwide. The Group employs 70,000 people throughout the world and generated revenues of 10.3 billion euros in 2006. Thales is a worldclass partner providing Critical Safety System Solutions and Support Services to meet the Aviation, Air Traffic Management and Infrastructure needs globally.

We are leader in Aerospace, Security Systems and Air Systems offering innovative solutions for the aviation industry, such as safety critical systems and In-Fight Entertainment (IFE), as  well as a pioneer in Communication, Navigation, Surveillance / Air Traffic Management Systems.

Our wide range of services for the Air Travel and Transportation industry (customer support and services, operational services and management services) is focused on Service Excellence to guarantee the customers satisfaction.

Close to its customers, Thales has set up operations near manufacturers, operators and airlines to better meet their requirements. They provide all the systems and support capabilities needed to deliver complete solutions.

http://www.thalesgroup.com

Unisys is a leading provider of consulting, solutions, services and technologies to airlines, airports, logistics, travel and distribution enterprises. Our clients comprise over 200 airlines – including 21 of the top 25 – and more than 600 airports.

Unisys systems process 29 % of all passengers and move 35 % of the world's air cargo shipments. We lead the industry in providing security solutions for air transport and for the global supply chain.  China's aviation industry relies on Unisys as its leading supplier of solutions and technology.

Our air transport solutions include AirCore, our next generation passenger services solution, our Logistics Management System and our Cargo Portal Services. Additionally Unisys  provides  market-driven initiatives and technologies for:

• Enterprise Security
• Outsourcing
• Real-time Infrastructure
• Open Source Solutions & Support
• Applications Services

We offer a powerful advantage by combining Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise capabilities and solutions for secure business operations with our core competencies of Consulting, Systems Integration, Outsourcing, Infrastructure and Server Technology and industry solutions.

http://www.unisys.com/transportation