The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has chosen world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology SITAÂ’s next generation airport management system to transform operations at ten airports across India. The system enhances the passenger journey for 42 million passengers.
The seven-year, multi-million dollar deal is part of a $130 billion airport modernisation project from the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation. It comes as India prepares for annual passenger numbers to triple to 450 million by 2020.
SITA has partnered with NIIT Technologies for this first multi-airport project in Asia to implement Airport Operations Control Centers (AOCC). VP Agrawal, Chairman, AAI said that AAI is integrating and automating airport operations at 10 of its airports including Chennai and Kolkata in technology partnership with NIIT Technologies, who will in turn implement SITAÂ’s solution for central AODB and AMS.
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