Malaysia Airlines opts for IBS crew management solution

April 30th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MASholidays, the travel and leisure arm of Malaysia Airlines, has opted for the city-based IBS Software Services' tour management solution 'iFly Tour', the IT firm said here Thursday. iFly Tour, a product under the iFly solution suite, offers an online booking system that is fully integrated with real time inventory of flights, hotel rooms and other products.

April 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Later this year, Air New Zealand and Austrian Airlines will start using iCargo CRA, a revenue accounting solution for cargo carrying airlines developed by the city-based IBS Software Services. 'iCargo CRA is built on proven new-generation technology and application architecture.

May 22nd, 2008 Recently I had to travel from Kolkata to San Francisco via New Delhi, New York City and return via Los Angeles and Frankfurt, pretty much I covered the globe twice in eight days with 4 days or actual work / fun. Here is my experience in brief.

February 17th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier of the island nation, has opted for the city-based IBS Group's software 'iFly Loyalty' for handling its frequent flier programme and customer relationship management functions, the IT firm said here Wednesday. 'iFly is a new generation IT solution developed specifically for the evolving airline industry, and will set new standards in the market,' IBS Group chairman and chief executive V.K.

February 2nd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - bmi, Britain's second largest airline and a Star Alliance member, has opted for Tehcnopark-headquartered IBS Software's new generation IT solution for managing loyalty programmes for its passengers, it was announced here Tuesday. The iFly Loyalty software will help the airline to administer its frequent flier programme (FFP) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities like campaign management, feedback management and even fraud detection, an IBS statement said.

January 6th, 2007 Nigeria's aviation minister has accused British airlines of treating Nigerian passengers with the "utmost contempt". Mr Fani-Kayode said he "would not sit by and allow our people to be treated like animals by anybody or for any reason".

July 11th, 2007 UATP, the airline-owned global corporate travel payment network, is helping to enable PayPal payments for online airline ticket purchases and has successfully launched PayPal payment for Southwest Airlines. Through the UATP network of over 220 airlines around the globe, PayPal is able to use the network to connect to the airlines and process payments.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Investment in information technology (IT) by airlines the worldover this year is likely to be the lowest since 2002, says SITA, an air transport communication provider. The 2009 Airline IT Trends Survey report by SITA and Airline Business magazine released Wednesday in Cannes, France, has forecast that spend on IT and telecommunications is likely to be just 1.7 percent of airline revenue.

January 19th, 2009 HELSINKI - Skytrax, the international airline survey website, has awarded Nordic carrier Finnair a four-star rating, it was announced here Tuesday. 'The four-star rating and the 'Quality Approved by Skytrax' designation make a global statement about Finnair as a quality company,' Markku Remes, responsible for the airlines' passenger experience development, said in a statement.

September 21st, 2009 Travel brands and deals on Twitter: Who to followNEW YORK — What are you looking for when you follow a travel brand on Twitter? News? Deals? Exclusive offers? And which Twitter travel feeds are the most popular? DealBase.com researched airlines, hotels and booking sites on Twitter and found that of the brands surveyed, JetBlue's Twitter feed had the most followers mid-September with 1.2 million. Of the Travel booking Web sites DealBase looked at, Travelocity had the most followers with nearly 25,000 and among hotels, Marriott had the most followers with more than 15,000.

March 19th, 2009 CHENNAI - City-based IT firm ChennaiNet Thursday launched a new solution that will help individuals and companies spot the holes in their networking software and fix them at once. 'Our online tool Automated Vulnerability Assessment and Reporting Services (AVARS) spots the holes in software or in other networks and reports the same immediately,' ChennaiNet chief executive M.L.

June 30th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A 28-year-old woman lost RM19,000 after her cyber 'lover' tricked her into parting with her savings to help him start a business. She had thought that the cyber love affair was genuine after the stranger, purportedly from Ireland, popped the question.

July 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - MindTree Ltd unveiled its knowledge management solution for providing competitive advantage to the manufacturing industry, the global software major said Wednesday. The software is designed to help manufacturing organisations to execute ideas of their workforce, resulting in innovative solutions, higher productivity and faster response and delivery, MindTree vice-president R.

April 6th, 2009 JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said. The Fokker airplane was carrying 17 officers from the Indonesian Air Force's special force and seven crew when it crashed at about 12.30 p.m.

May 5th, 2006 Amcat's contact center technology has been awarded the "CRM Excellence Award" from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for 2006. The award recognizes how Amcat's unified contact management system has helped U.S.