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TIA Adopts CUTE

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The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has signed a seven-year agreement with France’s air transport communications and IT solutions specialist organisation SITA to tackle check-in queues at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu. sita

Long queues are a consequence of the lack of airline common-use facilities at the airport, states a press release issued after the agreement was signed promising that with the introduction of SITA’s common-use platform AirportConnect Open, queues will be reduced and passenger flow through the airport will greatly improve as check-in areas can be used more efficiently.

SITA AirportConnect Open will be initially implemented at 24 check-in counters and later expanded to 36 counters, states the release. Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, General Manager of TIA, said: “We selected SITA after an extremely competitive international bidding process. This upgrade to our check-in facilities is timely as we have seen record levels of passenger traffic this year with the heavy promotion of Nepal Tourism Year 2011.” Passenger numbers are expected to grow further from now until April, the peak tourism period in Nepal. There was a real boom last year when international airlines serving the country grew their passenger volumes by over 20 per cent.

Maneesh Jaikrishna, SITA Country Director for India and Subcontinent, said: “Airlines, airports and governments have increasingly complex requirements. They need consistent passenger processing, reduced congestion and improved passenger flows.” AirportConnect Open will provide Tribhuvan International Airport with the flexibility to cope with peaks in traffic during the busiest times of the year for tourism and trade.  

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