Cathay Pacific Contracts with Unisys for Core Business Applications

Cathay Pacific Airways has contracted with Unisys for its core business applications, including its platforms for reservations, cargo and departure control.

Unisys has been providing these services as a sub-contractor for nine years, but the new agreement now also includes the management of middleware applications and the migration of communications from legacy handlers to a Unisys online message switching engine.

The contract is for three years, with an option to extend for another two.

Unisys will move Cathay's reservations, departure control, and cargo platforms to the Unisys data center in Rhodes Australia, just west of Sydney.  05-15-2006.

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