Paraguay´s TAM Mercosur Signs with Chile´s RASSA

RASSA Holdings Limited ("RASSA"), a Chile-based provider of new sales, services and marketing solutions to airlines, recently signed TAM Mercosur to use R@N.One, its comprehensive and modularized Internet-based passenger service system.

Functional modules of the R@N.One system include flight information, fares management, seat inventory control, reservations, sales, ticketing, check-in, as well as unique sales distribution and management reports. With this agreement, RASSA secures a strategic new Latin American client and its ninth worldwide.

"We are extremely pleased and honored to have TAM Mercosur join our rapidly growing family of satisfied airline clients,” said Jose Luis Tolosa, founding partner and Chief Sales Officer of RASSA. “We believe that TAM Mercosur´s decision demonstrates the urgent need for airlines to move into the 21st century and replace technologies developed in the 1960s."

For his part, Javier Hickethier, Commercial Director of TAM Mercosur, emphasized that "our company is excited to implement the R@N.One system because its cutting- edge technology will considerably improve our inventory control and ticketing processes."

RASSA is a company sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation with development in Buenos Aires, Argentina and other offices in Santiago, Chile and Atlanta, Georgia.