IT trends : special report

Subtitle: What kind of a role can IT play for airlines in a crisis? The 2009 Airline Business/SITA Airline IT Trends Survey shows the extent to which IT budgets are under pressure and how airlines are prioritising projects offering near-term returns. In the longer-term airlines sees [sic] mobile phones as a key technology for check-in innovation. Early returns : over half the respondents in the 2009 Airline IT Trends survey say IT spend [sic] is down this year as airlines' bid to tackle the economic crisis, while investment is being prioritised on projects making a difference in the short term. -- Getting mobile : the envisaged rapid growth of mobile and web services looks set to overshadow kiosks as a check-in channel, though there remains plenty of life left in kiosks' [sic] as they develop in future as a self-service channel.

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• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Illustrations;
• Pagination: p. 41-50 : ill.
• Serial:
  • Airline Business
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Reed Business Information, Limited
  • ISSN: 0268-7615
  • Serial URL: http://www.airlinebusiness.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Information technology
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01140064
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Northwestern University Transportation Library
• Files: TLIB
• Created Date: Sep 18 2009 7:52AM