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Star Alliance™, the airline network for Earth, continues to introduce new customer benefits as part of its ongoing efforts to deliver a
smooth travel experience across all member carriers. Coinciding with its fifth
anniversary the 12-member, 14-brand airline group recently extended its mobile
service offerings to also include the Pocket PC platform, thereby achieving
another industry first manifesting the group‘s leading position among the global
airline alliances.
In addition to thousands of flights operated by the member carriers the Star
Alliance timetable application for pocket PCs offers a wealth of other useful
information. Downloadable from the Star Alliance website www.staralliance.com
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provides details such as departure and arrival terminals, and flight distances
in kilometers as well as in miles. An extensive list of airline contact
addresses worldwide is also displayed.
The application features dynamic connection building, which will design
itineraries based on the customer’s input of origin and destination airports and
other specific preferences. Information about operating carrier, type of
aircraft, flying time and meal service on the route requested is also shown.
Selected flights can easily be added to the pocket PC’s calendar. Flight
schedules are updated every week.
"We constantly look for opportunities to serve Star Alliance customers
worldwide," said Dieter Armgardt, Director – Business Development.
"Last year we introduced a downloadable and highly acclaimed timetable for Palm OS
devices. We have also developed a WAP portal that provides easy access to the
Star Alliance or member carriers‘ travel services and information via WAP
supported networks."
"With the introduction of the pocket PC application we are now in a position
where we serve the most commonly used or mainstream handheld
devices," Dieter Armgardt said.
Star Alliance, the first truly global airline alliance, was established on May
14, 1997. The member carriers are Air Canada, Air New Zealand, All Nippon
Airways – ANA, Austrian Airlines, bmi british midland, Lauda Air, Lufthansa,
Mexicana, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways
International, Tyrolean Airways, United Airlines and VARIG Brazilian Airlines.
The Star Alliance network currently encompasses 729 airports in 124 countries
being served by almost 11,000 daily flights. This equates into a Star Alliance
aircraft taking off or landing somewhere in the world every four seconds. |
