An online travel exchange formed by 11 Asia-Pacific airlines in partnership with Travelocity is targeting the first quarter of 2002 for a formal launch. The company, initially dubbed Travel Exchange Asia, is now known as Zuji and headed by Pascal Bordat, former chief operating officer with Paris-based Travelprice. The exchange is being established by Air New Zealand, Ansett, Cathay Pacific Airways, China Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas Airways, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir and Singapore Airlines. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has implemented the first phase of the Defence Electronic Commerce Service for the UK Ministry of Defence. Phase one of the e-business exchange - Interim Purchasing - provides a single electronic portal to the MoD's trading community. Boeing is using components from Oracle's E-Business Suite for the acquisition and distribution of airline spare parts. The financial, inventory and purchasing components will be part of Boeing's Global Airline Inventory Network, which will manage the flow of spare parts for its airline customers. SITA has won a contract from Spanish carrier Iberia to provide a high-speed global internet protocol network to connect applications across its 140 offices in 39 countries. Aerospace e-business companies Copernio and TradeAir are combining their aviation ande-commerce services to provide advanced technology buying and selling tools. Copernio supplies aerospace-specific online systems, enterprise management, e-commerce and financial systems, while TradeAir operates an online parts business. TradeAir will use Copernio's software to provide a request-for-quote system. Airfreight agent representative body Agency Sector Management has selected Transcenda's internet messaging services for British Airways World Cargo. The messaging services will link BA with freight forwarders, allowing cargo agents to receive automatic freight status update messages as plain text e-mails.
Source: Flight International
