IATA Project Simplify Business

If you want to be cabin crew, you will need some basic idea of the airline industry. Therefore, I include some information on IATA.

IATA or International Air Transport Association is a business association of Airlines. Not all successful airlines are members of this association. However, as it is the biggest international body, it does has some influence on the way the airlines operate.

One of the project that had been going on for the last few years is the StB - simplifying the business. Rather than looking at airline as an entity, it is looking globally at the total operation and see how the total cost and efficiency can be improved. We have to bear in mind that airline are inter-dependant on each other and poor performance on one can affect the other parties.

These are the projects under IATA. Some of these projects are considered compulsory, without it, it will hamper the operation. For example the e-ticketing, other airlines will not accept manual ticket, so if your airline does not operate using e-tickets, your passengers will not be accepted by carriers.

StB -Simplify The Business' Projects
Bar Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP)
IATA e-freight
Baggage Improvement Program (BIP)
Fast Travel Program
IATA e-services

Completed Projects:
E-ticketing (ET) .... Remember the days when you went to the airline agents of the airlines themselves, you would be issued with nice tickets given to you in a beautiful folders... It is no longer exist...now you will be given just a piece of printed paper, even that, that is not the legal tender. You could walk to check in empty handed, and you need to prove your identity. Gone  were the days of tickets........

What people may not realise, is the cost to issue the tickets... lets us try to list them..........
1. Security printing... like printing of money....                              usd$ 5 each
2. Cost to security transport........                                                         ??
3. Security Room
4. Stock check and audit
5. Fraud cost - it the ticket is stolen... any destination can be written on it... airlines will honor it eventhough they know it is fraudulence ticket.
                                                              estimate $10 each issue

Now  the industry is saving on the cost.


 
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The objective of  StB is to change the way airlines industry operates, the result will be better service and lower cost. It is expected the StB will save the airline about 16.8 billions.



How does StB realise industry-wide change?
to be continued...........
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