This month:

• Implementing cost efficient check-in and boarding
• Driving BCBP implementation
• Ensuring a smooth transition to a 100% ET world
• Project News
• Events
• Fact of the month

Implementing cost efficient check-in and boarding

Without any doubt, airports play an important role in offering the convenience of bar coded boarding passes to passengers. To drive the implementation of BCBP at airports, IATA contacted airports whose CUTE contracts expire before 01 July 2008 to educate and challenge them on the importance of BCBP printing and reading capability. IATA learned that:

• Of the 52 airports identified with contracts expiring before 01 July 08, 96% of them are requesting BCBP capable equipment
• 44% of those airports are requesting BCBP capable equipment which will not support mag stripe boarding documents

Based on the above, IATA will engage those airports not requesting BCBP capable equipment and encourage them to do so. IATA will also share the equipment replacement information with airlines so that they can extend their BCBP offering to new locations. Find out the details here...

Driving BCBP implementation

As IATA drives the industry and supports airlines to become BCBP capable by end of 2008, IATA engaged those carriers which were most likely to implement BCBP with minimum effort. These airlines met the below criteria:

• Airline uses a DCS system which is BCBP capable and can provide the BCBP feature at low cost and with a short lead time
• Airline uses web check-in and simply has to insert a bar-code on the web page to implement BCBP
• Airline’s parent company is BCBP capable, which can offer strong incentives to also implement BCBP

IATA is pleased to announce that 57% of airlines engaged have implemented or made plans to implement BCBP. In 2008, IATA will support airlines to implement BCBP through workshops, an updated implementation guide and local engagement. Read the complete report.

Smooth transition to a 100% ET world

In order to ensure a smooth transition to a 100% ET world on 1 June 2008, IATA has forwarded to airlines and travel agents using IATA BSPs documentation covering key issues such as:

• Use of the Virtual Miscellaneous Document (V-MPD) and Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD)
• Consequences of a neutral paper ticket being issued on/after 1 June 2008
• Impact of the elimination of neutral paper tickets on 3rd parties in the BSP

If you have not received this information send your request by clicking on the following links: Airlines - Travel agents

Project News

ET

• Global ET penetration reached 90% in IATA BSPs in November. For more information read the project update
• Interline ET: The number of IETs increased from 2,398 to 2,615 IET agreements between 249 carriers
• Download the list of TOP 50 Carriers by Implemented IET's

BCBP

• Getting past the 100th mark! The number of BCBP capable airlines increased from 93 to 101 in December. All the details in the BCBP project update.

IATA e-freight:

• Message Improvement Programme participant status Dec 07 - find out who's participating
• 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
  

RFID:

• Read IATA's Analysis on the use of RFID for parts management

Events

• Don't miss the e-freight track, which will include a special session on MIP, at the 2008 World Cargo Symposium taking place in Rome. More information here...

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The StB Global Team