This month:
Tracking your airline's progress
Are you accessing your airline's ET Readiness Reports? And your airline's IET Readiness report? Every month, IATA makes available to 361 airlines specific information on the amount of tickets they issue as electronic tickets through IATA BSPs and how many of those are interline itineraries.
Additionally, IATA issues an airline CEO report with high-level information on each airline’s ET progress, including ET status, progress in upgrading interline agreements to electronic, and identified challenges to ET implementation. The CEO report also provides the airline's status for other StB projects.
Not sure how to interpret the data? Read the following guidance documents: ET Readiness - IET Readiness. So access your extranet page TODAY! You can even set up alerts to be notified every time a new report is uploaded.
ET Campaign launched!
Simplifying the Business has just launched an ET Campaign, which will be critical to assess the industry's status before the industry wide shift to ET in Dec 2007.
This time, more than ever before, the information you provide to your StB local representative will be critical to complete the CEO report, distributed in IATA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Vancouver next June.
Project News
ET:
- The global ET penetration reached 79%. How did your region do?
- 210 airlines using IATA BSPs are now ET capable. For more information read the ET project update.
- Interlining: Once again, find out the top 25 carriers by implemented IETs.
Leading carriers have 78 IETs implemented.
- Have you registered your GBR? 65 airlines already did!
BCBP:
- Bar-coded boarding passes keep growing as the industry solution to bring efficiency to check-in and boarding: 41 airlines are now BCBP capable! Read the BCBP project update.
- Read how an airport can become 100% BCBP capable even if it serves airlines using mag stripe technology on ATB2.
IATA e-freight:
- On Friday 20th April, IATA hosted its first conference call with it’s StB Preferred Partners to agree the way forward in ensuring the industry has enabling technology to support IATA e-freight. For more information on the IATA e-freight Preferred Partners click here.
- Message Improvement Programme (MIP) Campaign: A total of 206 airlines have been contacted to join the already 20 airlines and 8 freight forwarders that have agreed to participate in MIP. The results will be shared in next month's newsletter.
CUSS:
- Congratulations to Seoul-Incheon International Airport for launching 38 new CUSS-compliant kiosks on April 25th, 2007! More details in next month's newsletter.
- 56 airports are offering CUSS compliant kiosks worlwide! For the latest update please click here.
RFID:
- Together with the Inflight Task Force,
which involves industry experts from airlines, caterers and duty free suppliers,
IATA has produced and validated the airline requirements
for the use of RFID for inflight services.
The next step is to select an appropriate RFID technology that best meets the identified needs and test it in a trial with KLM City Hopper and KLM Catering Services.
- The final objective of the trial is to develop a detailed business case for the use of RFID in catering activities. Additionally, a Recommended Practice will be produced. Find out more about the use of RFID for inflight services.
StB Workshops
- BCBP: Only 3 BCBP workshops remain for the rest of the year. Don't miss the next workshop in Panama!
- ET: Workshops are an excellent networking opportunity to meet potential Interline partners. If you have missed the opportunity to attend one, there's still a chance to participate. Find out the dates and locations.
Contact us to share your comments,
questions and ideas!
The StB Global
Team
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