SITA, the leading specialist in air transport IT and Communications (IT&C) announced on Monday that it has signed a five-year, $76 million contract to implement and maintain an advanced communications and desktop infrastructure for Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA) globally. The hybrid network solution will facilitate the introduction of a broad range of new applications including a new passenger management system. The new project will help the 18-million passenger airline to reduce its communications-related costs significantly, become more flexible and provide its customers and staff with advanced, future-proof services with mobility access over SITA's (IP-VPN) secured network, the largest private network in the world. Dr. Omar Jefri, VP Information Technology, SAA, said: “This project represents the second part of a two-phase project which initially commenced in June 2006 to renovate our IT and Communications infrastructure. The new SITA network and desktop infrastructure will connect 250 of our offices, covering more than 100 cities and airports across 60 countries. SITA is the only company which can handle projects of this size.” __
