Saudi Arabia’s national airline Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA) has signed a five-year, US$76 million contract with SITA, the leading specialist in air transport IT and Communications, to implement and maintain an advanced communications and desktop infrastructure globally.
The hybrid network solution will facilitate the introduction of a broad range of new applications including a new Passenger Management System.
The new project will help the airline to reduce its communications-related costs significantly, become more flexible and provide its customers and staff with advanced, future-proof services with mobility access over SITA’s (IP-VPN) secured network, the largest private network in the world.
In addition to a new Passenger Management System, SAA also plans to implement a new Enterprise Resource Planning System, flight planning and a range of new cargo applications across the SITA-provided communications infrastructure.
SITA will be responsible for all technical needs that are related to desktop, LAN, telephony, security, and WAN connectivity for all SAA out-stations worldwide and for deployment, post-deployment support and maintenance services of all systems implemented in this project.
