Air France offers mobile alerts to passengers

Air France is developing mobile application that will allow passengers to arrange flight information through their mobile advice.  The application allows passengers to receive real-time travel alerts, book flights, or download electronic newspapers on their mobile phones and tablets. This is an application that may be more popular in the near future because of the fact that more people are starting to depend on their smartphone and tablets.  The article talks about how 25 years ago the main source of ticket sales was travel agencies, but that’s not the case at this point in time with the way smartphones are being used.  Smartphones have the ability to do just about anything you would do on a normal computer.  The airline is using mobile devices to provide staff with information on passenger list and flight preparation.  Air France has replaced the traditional pilot’s briefcase containing the flight manual with an iPad. It has also equipped ground staff with mobile phones that help them check information about the plan before they take off for flight.

 

The company is building its mobile services on top of it internally developed enterprise messaging system. The system will allow Air France to exchange data with its partner Delta Airlines, which operates on some of Air France’s routes. This will allow airlines diverse IT systems to communicate between one another to compare flight information. The article talked about how the main reason that company was choosing Tibco technology, was for their quality of service. The article talked about its main goal of the application, the article stated, “Ultimately, the airlines aim is to open up application programming interfaces to third-party application developers for the development of its mobile applications. “ What they want to do is to introduce the idea to other developers so that they may develop application for other airlines. Air France is taking a major leap that will help bring flight arranges and flight information to the mobile applications. 

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