Russia’s Largest Airport Teams Up with SITA

Moscow Domodedovo International, Russia’s largest airport, has chosen SITA, the aviation IT specialist, to provide extensive self-service facilities to manage the 22 million passengers which the airport is expecting during 2008.

The airport, which is also the largest in Eastern Europe, handled close to 19 million passengers in 2007 and is expecting a growth rate of 18 percent to bring passenger numbers to 22 million in 2008.

To continue delivering high-quality passenger services in the face of this growth, the airport operators have selected SITA’s AirportConnect Open and Common Use Self-Service (CUSS) kiosks.

These systems will provide both self-service check-in and shared use agent check-in positions which will free up significant space at the airport. In addition, Domodedovo Handling, the handling agent at the airport, will use SITA Departure Control Services enabling mid-size and smaller airlines to offer self-service check-in without major IT investment on their part.

AirportConnect Open is SITA’s latest generation IATA CUTE-compliant common use passenger processing system that supports CUTE, proprietary and web applications on common use check-in and boarding gate workstations, with shared peripherals.

Domodedovo Moscow International Airport has 76 partner airlines, including 31 Russian, 30 foreign and 15 air carriers from the CIS countries, which fly to more than 220 destinations in Russia and world-wide.