JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways Using Sabre Web-Based Applications

AirTran and JetBlue have adopted Sabre Airline Solutions’ new browser-based modules for some of their operations control and crew tracking requirements at remote locations.

While both airlines have been users of Sabre's traditional flight operations' applications, these new Web-based, open-systems, called FliteTrac Web and CrewTrac Web, allow their personnel at airport ramp and gate positions to access necessary operational information more easily than was possible previously.

According to Sabre, FliteTrac Web’s controlled actions include inputting gate information, flight times, fuel data, shift log information, cargo load information, and flight delays.  A recent enhancement also allows retrieval of updated weather information for pilots.

JetBlue is using Sabre’s CrewTrac Web in addition to FliteTrac Web, which allows its pilots and flight attendants to access their schedules, check in for flights, and review schedule changes and available assignments at remote locations too.

Sabre sees the implementations of these systems by JetBlue and AirTran as an indication that the industry is moving away from proprietary communications systems and networks and towards more open systems.

Frontier Airlines also will soon be implementing its FliteTrac Web, Sabre says.  06-04-2004.