Enabling growth in China’s aviation industry quickly and securely
Business challenge
Support what IATA forecasts will be the world’s largest air passenger market (defined by traffic to, from and within) by 2029.
Solution
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Unisys deployed ClearPath® Systems with extended transaction capacity clustering capability to link up to six systems for increased transaction processing capacity with storage and virtual tape library; Unisys provides a passenger service solution that TravelSky offers as a hosted system to China’s airlines - Air China is the first client of the new solution; Unisys deployed its Cargo Solutions which TravelSky offers to China’s cargo airlines via a SaaS model from a Unisys secure private cloud environment hosted in Beijing, now used by Air China and China Eastern.
Results and benefits
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Helped ensure the ability to handle the predicted 1.19 billion passengers in 2034 quickly and securely, 758 million more than in 2014, with an average annual growth rate of 5.2%
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Enabled Air China to generate ~50 million flight queries and 1 million booking requests per day
TravelSky maintains and operates several critical passenger and cargo solutions used by China’s air travel and tourism industries. As China’s aviation industry continues to grow, the additional processing capacity within the robust, secure and flexible Unisys ClearPath® Systems will enable us to process more transactions, such as reservations and load calculations critical to flight safety, quickly and securely.
Zhu Xiaoxing
Vice President, TravelSky