Bird Group intros IT solutions for travel industry

NEW DELHI: The Bird Group, a conglomerate of independent companies working in the travel and IT arena, has announced its portfolio of IT solutions for the Indian travel and tourism industry.

The solutions comprise seven offerings that have been conceptualized and designed to suit the needs of airlines, travel agencies and the end traveller community.

For the airlines, the key offerings include Airline Inventory Reservation System (AIRS), web based hosting system for low cost carrier, BSP TQS, a ticket quota system for airlines and ARINC for IT outsourcing needs across airports.

For the travel agencies, the solutions comprise of Res4.com, a B2B portal for accessing low and medium sized travel services providers (tours, taxi, hotels & inns, railway ticket), SARAL, an IP-based solution providing travel agents instant connectivity to the Amadeus host site in Germany and Amadeus Agent Management System (AAMS) for providing centralized information on the Global Distribution Systems' (GDS) customers.

The ARINC iMUSE product portfolio consists of three different solutions: iMUSE for medium to larges scale airport deployments, iMUSE Broadband, a low cost solution for lower criticality and lower volume airports and iMUSE Express, a low cost portable solution for low volume airports and offsite operations.

For the end traveller, the company is offering PNR SMS, which enables them to receive travel itineraries on their mobile phone via SMS facility.

Speaking on the occasion, The Bird Group executive director Ankur Bhatia said, “AIRS is already being used by four Indian airlines. Apart from the domestic market we are also targeting the global start up carriers in three key countries regions, Middle East, South East Asia (SEA) and Latin America. In fact in SEA, we are in the last stage of talks with two carriers.”

The software development of the solutions including applications development, implementation and production support has been done by Bird Information Systems (BIS), a 100 percent owned division of the Bird Group, which is engaged in providing IT services, automated aviation and travel related software solutions.