SITA Wins $200 Million Contract at D"usseldorf Airport
DUSSELDORF, EU, August 3, 2005. D"usseldorf Airport has outsourced its IT support to SITA INC (Information Networking Computing) in a contract worth USD 200 million over ten years, it was announced today.
Thomas Schnalke, Managing Director of D"usseldorf Airport and initiator of the outsourcing strategy, said: "We want to create an airport of the future and that's why we have chosen to partner with SITA INC. D"usseldorf is growing rapidly and we need to continue to innovate in order to satisfy passengers and airlines alike. We believe that SITA is best placed to ensure that we remain on the cutting edge of technological advances in the industry. Together we can establish an IT platform that can also serve as an example to other airports and help the industry become more cost efficient."
Francesco Violante, Managing Director of SITA INC, said: "D"usseldorf is the third largest airport in Germany handling 15.3 million passengers per year. We believe that this partnership will help the airport to become even more efficient and to grow revenue in the future. SITA INC is very pleased to be working in such a first-class environment and we are entirely committed to ensuring that this collaboration is a great success for all concerned."
He added: "The airport industry in Germany is of great strategic importance to SITA INC. D"usseldorf is set to become a model for how a modern airport campus can be run, maximising the benefits to airlines and other customers of shared IT systems and data bases including common-use and self-service check-in kiosks. The outcome will be to simplify the passenger journey through use of state-of-the art technology."
SITA won this important outsourcing contract with the strong support of its partners, EADS Telecom Deutschland GmbH and Siemens AG. There will be no redundancies among the existing 63 IT staff at the airport.
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