Mumbai Commences Use of New SITA Airport Technology

Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) began using SITA's airport management system which moves it away from manual systems to IT (information technology)-driven automation that can manage its resources end-to-end in real time.

CSIA is the first Indian airport to use this technology, SITA says.

Some of the SITA applications now being used at Mumbai include Airport Central, Airport Resource Manager and Airport Vision.  Airport Central provides a centralized database and automated functions for receiving, processing and distributing consolidated operations data. It is linked to the "what if" capability of Airport Resource Manager which enables analysis of multiple scenarios for long-range planning.  Airport Vision uses the multi-media capability of new Internet technology to display flight status, weather, and other information on public monitors throughout the terminals.

VHF Communications Network Expansion

In a related development, SITA's CEO, Francesco Violante, talking about other airport technology advances in India since the 1998 introduction of the first CUTE (common use terminal equipment) for airline check-in, disclosed that SITA "will also shortly be announcing details of a major expansion in the air-ground VHF communications network that we began building in India twelve years ago and which is now an important part of the shift from reliance on voice communications to datalink."  05-05-2007.

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