Revenue and Data Management
Air France and KLM to go for a combined inventory system
Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have signed a 10-year agreement for the implementation and operation of Amadeus Altéa Inventory by 2010.
Published: 27 Oct 2009
Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have signed a 10-year agreement for the implementation and operation of Amadeus Altéa Inventory by 2010.
The airlines’ new inventory management solution will be fully integrated with their sales platform, Altéa Reservation. The group will try to capitalise on dynamic inventory controls "needed to exploit every opportunity to maximise revenue".
According to Amadeus, both airlines will replace their legacy inventory systems with a single solution that will manage their 74.5 million passengers and more than 900,000 flights per year.
Altéa Inventory will support Air France and KLM in their key objective of maximising revenue from a single business operating two carrier codes. The two airlines will align and optimise their critical schedule management and revenue management processes.
The airline group is not only looking at achieving operational synergies, but also owing to the close integration of the Amadeus Altéa suite, Air France and KLM will benefit from full data synchronisation at group level.
“The adoption of Altéa Inventory will dramatically improve the servicing of Air France and KLM customers travelling across our unique co-branded network,” said Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, CEO of Air France-KLM Group.
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