Air China launches Unisys Passenger Processing solution at Beijing Airport to improve competitiveness, customer service, safety.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1997-- APPS departure control system implemented to support Air China's core goals Unisys Monday announced that Air China has implemented the Unisys Airport Passenger Processing System (APPS) at Beijing Capital International Airport Beijing Capital International Airport (Simplified Chinese: 北京首都国际机场; Traditional Chinese: to improve departure control procedures. The APPS system will improve Air China's competitiveness, customer service, and safety at China's leading airport. "The Airport Passenger Processing System implemented by Air China not only ensures us a leading position in the airline industry in China, but also helps Air China to compete more vigorously in the international market," said Tan Zhi Hong, general manager Ground Handling Department, Air China. "Moreover, this Unisys solution is fundamental to our core goals of ensuring safety and improving quality of service." The system features boarding control, check-in, load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and ground handling support. It meets all regulations and requirements of the International Air Transport Association (IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. ). Using APPS, Air China has handled check-in for 810,000 passengers and load balance for more than 18,000 flights since Oct. 1, 1996. Air China also has handled ground operations for Japan Airlines, China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines (中国南方航空公司) (SEHK: 1055, NYSE: ZNH) is an airline based in Guangzhou in the Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. , China Eastern Airlines China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (Simplified Chinese: 中国东方航空股份有限公司) (SSE: B>600115 , China Northwest Airlines China Northwest Airlines (中国西北航空公司) was an airline based in the People's Republic of China. It started operations in 1989. In 2002, the airline, along with China Yunnan Airlines merged with China Eastern Airlines. and China Northern Airlines China Northern Airliners (simplified Chinese: 中国北方航空; pinyin: Zhōngguó Běifāng Hángkōng), was an airline based in Taoxian International Airport, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. since March 1997. More than 700 agents at Beijing Capital International Airport have been trained to use the new system. During the past decade, China's aviation industry has been one of the fastest-growing in the world -- expanding at a rate of 20 percent every year. To meet increasing demands, China plans to upgrade most of its top 40 airports in the next 10 years. Along with the need for modernization and construction of new facilities comes the requirement for new technology to operate airports and handle airline carriers from all over the world, as well as Chinese carriers. APPS is an automated method of incorporating PC-based tools to assist agents with passenger processing. It features easy-to-use Windows-type graphical screens that enable agents, with minimal training, to complete reservations and departure control processes. APPS allows agents to retrieve customer information in seconds and to check in passengers and baggage quickly and efficiently. The APPS suite includes Check-in Assistant, Boarding Control Assistant and Load Planning Assistant. "Through system renovation, both efficiency and service quality have been greatly improved in key areas, such as check in, load balancing and boarding control," said Wang Wei Wang Wei (wäng wā), 699–759, Chinese poet. He was an extremely versatile man, being a musician and painter as well as a poet. He wrote quatrains almost exclusively; these verses portray quiet scenes like those depicted in the few Guo, deputy director Computer Center, Air China. "The new APPS system automates all of those processes for domestic and international flights departing from Beijing." "This leading airport automation solution helps ensure that airports and airlines can differentiate their service while keeping up with the increasing demands of the busy airport environment," said Bruce Wheat, vice president, Operations Management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. Systems for Unisys Transportation Market Sector Group. The project to implement the Unisys system began in July 1996 with an investment of $1.5 million. In less than three months, 128 intelligent workstations, 124 boarding pass printers and baggage tag printers, and 24 gate-reading devices were installed successfully. The system's graphical interface See GUI. allows access to host systems for boarding control, load balance and check-in processes. This interface has a common look and feel regardless of which host departure systems are being accessed. At check-in counters, Air China uses APPS Check-in Assistant along with boarding pass printers and baggage tag printers to automate the check-in process. Boarding gate agents use APPS Boarding Control Assistant to simplify the boarding process and improve on-time departures. At Air China's weight and balance center, the airline installed intelligent workstations to replace dumb terminals to enable agents to perform weight and balance planning according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. passenger, baggage and cargo information. After the check-in counter is closed, agents can input accurate passenger numbers, baggage weight, cargo and mail weight, and departure fuel weight to increase safety. To support the advanced system, Air China's ground handling department has implemented numerous reforms to improve domestic and international service. For example, the airline has reorganized re·or·gan·ize v. re·or·gan·ized, re·or·gan·iz·ing, re·or·gan·iz·es v.tr. To organize again or anew. v.intr. To undergo or effect changes in organization. check-in procedures to ensure that passengers board flights promptly when called to improve the on-time departure record. Unisys In Transportation Unisys -- a major supplier of technology, applications and services to the worldwide airlines market for nearly 40 years -- is helping transportation organizations transform their operations to identify profitable customers, increase marketing effectiveness Marketing Effectiveness is the function of improving how marketers go to market with the goal of optimizing their marketing spend to achieve even better results for both the short-term and long-term. Also related to Marketing ROI and Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI). , cultivate customer satisfaction, enhance revenues, make timely, effective decisions and better leverage resources. Unisys serves 200 airlines -- including 17 of the world's top 25 -- and 31 major railroads, as well as ferry lines, freight forwarders An individual who, as a regular business, assembles and combines small shipments into one lot and takes the responsibility for the transportation of such property from the place of receipt to the place of destination. and other major transportation-related businesses. 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