Bulk "news" update
Jan 30, 2008

March 2007
Aviacsa
Mexicos 3rd largest airline, Aviacsa, with a growth and solid presence in both domestic and international markets, have signed for the following modules in MP² (FPMax via SITA): Airline Business Control, Crew Pairing Optimizer and Maintenance Router

June 2006
Scandinavian Airline Group
SAS Sweden/Norway/Denmark, Wideröe and Blue1 purchases all the MP² modules.

“The SK companies have not yet attained the level of earnings required for sound profitability. Some parts show a plus, while others report negative results, says
John S. Dueholm, Executive Vice President and responsible for the business area Scandinavian Airline Businesses.
“It is therefore necessary to find new methods that will contribute to increasing profitability. Dynamic traffic scheduling is one such method. The tool that we are using in this work is a system called MP², Multi Process Planning, which creates good prerequisites for optimizing round-trip traffic,” relates Dueholm.

April 2006
Royal Jordanian
Royal Jordanian has signed for MP² Airline Business Control, Fleet Assignment and Connection Maximizer.
The Jordanian flag carrier, operating scheduled international services to over fifty destinations in the Middle and Far East, North Africa, Europe and North America.

November 2005
SJ, The Swedish Railway
SJ, the Swedish national railway, have signed for the train version of MP².
The application, that bridges the financial aspects and planning processes, is used by the strategic planning department for creation and evaluation of new and tentative schedules.

”We have gone from the threat of bankruptcy to the position of a profitable travel company. A lot has happened during the past years, and there are still a lot of changes going on”.
This is SJ's CEO, Jan Forsberg, describing, on SJ home page, the task of transforming SJ into a modern and customer-centered travel company.

April 2005
TuiFly Nordic
TuiFly Nordic signs for MP² Crew Pairing Optimizers. TuiFly Nordic operates holiday charter flights from Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish airports to destinations in the Canaries, Egypt, the Mediterranean, South America and Thailand

November 2004
SITA Inc
STOCKHOLM – 10TH November 2004 - SITA INC and Industrial Optimizers AB are pleased to announce the conclusion of a comprehensive marketing agreement for the MP² range of Optimization and Business Control applications. “In our drive to push the boundaries of value added solutions to a new level”, says Toby Tucker, Director, Flight Operations, SITA, ”the formalisation of this agreement represents a key milestone in the evolution of both companies. Leveraging the combined benefits now offered by the integration of MP² into FleetPlan, the airline community can look forward to significant cost benefits.”