TravelSky Technology Profile
TravelSky Technology Limited provides information technology solutions for aviation and travel industry in China. The company serves commercial airlines, airports and air travel products and services suppliers, travel agencies, corporate clients, travelers, and cargo shippers.
The company also holds an equity interest in each of the following associated companies: Shanghai Civil Aviation East China Cares System Integration Co., Ltd.; Shenyang Civil Aviation Cares of Northeast China, Ltd.; Aviation Cares of Southwest Chengdu, Ltd.; Heilongjiang TravelSky Airport Technology Limited; Yunnan TravelSky Airport Technology Limited; Shanghai Dongmei Aviation Tourism Online Co., Ltd; Dalian TravelSky Airport Technology Limited; Hebei TravelSky Airport Technology Limited; and Guangzhou Airport AirSpan Information Technology Co. Ltd.
Aviation Information Technology Service
The company’s aviation information technology (AIT) services, which consist of a series of products and solutions, are provided to Chinese commercial airlines and approximately 300 foreign and regional commercial airlines. The AIT services comprise electronic travel distribution (ETD) service (including Inventory Control System (ICS) service and Computer Reservation System (CRS) service) and Airport Passenger Processing (APP) service, as well as other extended information technology solutions related to the businesses, including product service for supporting aviation alliance, solutions for developing commercial airlines’ e-ticket and ecommerce, data service for supporting decisions of commercial airlines, and information management system for improvement of ground operations.
Distribution Information Technology Service
The company’s travel distribution network comprises approximately 63,800 sales terminals owned by approximately 6,600 travel agencies and travel service distributors, covering approximately 400 domestic and overseas cities. The network processed approximately 154.3 million transactions during the year 2008.
In 2008, the company designed and developed a business platform product called BLUESKY, which helps middle and large scale travel service distributors to facilitate business operation and management, such as management of customer data, issue of sales policies, and enhancement of reservation.
Travel Product Distribution Service
The company provides travel product distribution services including hotel reservation, ‘hotel + air ticket’ packages, car rental, and business trip insurance products. It also cooperates with domestic insurance brokerage institutions to develop information technology solutions for distribution of insurance products like air-travel personal accident injury insurance.
Aviation Cargo Logistics Information Technology Services
The company’s cargo business system, CFPS LITE, supports the cargo terminals of medium and small size airports. A neutral cargo business management system supports international neutral cargo terminals, which meets the needs of international and domestic imports and exports of the neutral cargo terminals at the airport. It provides professional extended services, such as the queuing system for parking lot at the airport. In 2008, the company processed approximately 4.2 million airway bills.
Suppliers
The company’s main supplier is Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aeronautiques S.C.
Customers
The company’s main customer is China Southern Airlines Company Limited. Its other customers are China Southern Airlines Company Limited, Eastern Airlines, and Air China Limited.
History
TravelSky Technology Limited was incorporated in 2000.
