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SITA
26 Chemin de Joinville
1216 Cointrin, Genève, Switzerland
Tel. +41-22-747-61-11
Fax +41-22-747-61-10

Type: Private - Cooperative
On the web: http://www.sita.com

The far-flung air transport industry stays in touch because SITA sees to it. A telecom and IT services cooperative created by airlines to enable global information sharing, SITA has more than 600 members -- airlines, airports, aerospace companies, travel agencies, and governments -- in some 220 countries. SITA provides its customers with voice, data, Internet access, and Web hosting services, as well as other such services as baggage tracking, cargo management, ticket issuing, and passenger support. Subsidiaries OnAir and CHAMP Cargosystems provide in-flight mobile telephony services to airlines and IT services to the air cargo industry. SITA's partners include satellite service provider Inmarsat.

Officers:
Chairman: Paul Coby
CEO: Francesco Violante
SVP Strategic Change and Corporate Development: Air Cargo Services

Competitors:
AT&T
BT
Verizon Business

 
 
Wikipedia: SITA

SITA (originally an acronym for "Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques") is a multinational information technology company specialising in providing IT services to the aviation industry.

SITA was founded in February 1949 as a cooperative by 11 airlines, providing communications between airports and pioneering telecommunications. They were the first to handle data traffic in real time via a packet switched network over common carrier leased lines.

Today, SITA SC remains as a cooperative, while SITA INC (Information Network Computing) was spun off in 2000 as a separate commercial entity. As of today SITA INC has over 640 members in the aviation network.

In July 2006, all three branches of SITA entities were combined under a single global unit called SITA. Franceso Violante heads the SITA organization now based in Geneva.

Management

Chief Executive Officer - Francesco Violante
Chief Finance Officer - Colm O'Higgins
Chief Information Officer - Jean-Pascal Aubert
Board Secretary - Johanna Verboom
Senior Vice President, Communications Services - René Azoulai
Senior Vice President, Sales and Relationship Management - Bruno Frentzel
Senior Vice President, Customer Services - Arnaud van Rietschoten
Senior Vice President, Marketing - Arthur Calderwood
Senior Vice President, Airport and Desktop Services - John Jarrell
Senior Vice President, Strategic Change and Corporate Development - Ian Riddell
Senior Vice President, Human Resources - Val Summer
Senior Vice President, Passenger & Travel Solutions - Richard Stokes
Senior Vice President, New Ventures & Large Deals Group - Norbert Steiger
Head of Group Internal Audit and Risk Management - Philip D’Hondt
Head of Legal - David Greaves

External links

Chretien, G.J.; Konig, W.M. and Rech, J.H. (1973). "The SITA Network". Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computer Communication Networks: 373-396, Sussex, United Kingdom: Noordhoff International Publishing. 


 
 

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