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SITA has achieved CUPPS (Common Use Passenger
Processing System) compliance certification and successfully
completed its CUPPS Pilot program.
The SITA CUPPS Pilot started in January 2009 at
Orlando International Airport with the check-in and boarding of
WestJet passengers, followed recently by Continental Airlines
passengers.
The culmination comes with the
certification demonstrating that SITA’s platform is fully
compliant with the pre-released version of the IATA (International
Air Transport Association) CUPPS Technical Specification.
Catherine Mayer, SITA's Vice-President for
Airport Services, said, “This is a great day for the air transport
community as it brings common use passenger processing to a more
efficient level. It is also another milestone in SITA’s long
history of community leadership in the common use arena. SITA
first developed CUTE (common user terminal equipment) with the
airlines in 1984 and is now the first to receive certification for
our platform using the new industry adopted CUPPS Recommended
Practice.
“This certification demonstrates that our
systems can run multiple applications according to the CUPPS
standards. In fact, SITA’s AirportConnect Open is the only
fully-integrated common use platform supporting CUPPS, CUTE, and
web-based applications, as well as CUSS kiosk applications.”
SITA’s AirportConnect Open is a stable platform
that has been in operation since 2004. It provides a low-risk
migration path to CUPPS compared with both new platforms that may
be introduced by other companies and with existing platforms where
CUPPS, CUTE, and CUSS Kiosk capabilities are not integrated as a
single system.
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