Airlines

The airline industry has seen the re-emergence of problems involving inadequate infrastructure capacity, fluctuating economy, labor relations, operational costs, and customer satisfaction. MindTree understands that the airline industry could well be at the brink of major restructuring and consolidation; we have solutions that help address these problems.

Some of the key challenges facing this industry and affecting airline profitability include:

• Rising fuel prices that increase operational costs
• Labor shortages and increasing wage pressures
• More new entrants - especially Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) that are eating into traditional carriers' market share
• Weak balance sheets that leave them highly vulnerable to SARS, terrorism, and other threats
• Rising security costs and shifts in air travel choice behavior

MindTree provides ‘productized’ solutions that help you use IT to optimize efficiencies and make all-round improvements in business processes. MindTree can help airlines in different areas ranging from fare distribution, yield management, revenue management and cargo management, enabling you to stay profitable by making the right alterations to revenue and cost structures.

Apart from technical frameworks, MindTree's investments in business frameworks can help reduce costs and time-to-market for new solutions and provide greater flexibility:

OTA Framework

to help convert non-OTA compliant services of a trading partner to OTA compliant services

OTA Test Harness

to help trading partners with testing OTA compliant services

Enterprise Data Warehouse Framework

MindTree provides this framework for various segments within the travel domain

Baggage tracking using RFID

MindTree's reference architecture spans finance, HR, Global Distribution System, code share partners, and alliance systems to ensure smooth integration of airline applications.