Amadeus has launched Amadeus Airline Cloud Availability, which aims to support airlines in coping with steadily rising search and shopping requests. Amadeus Airline Cloud Availability was piloted by Lufthansa earlier this year using the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. It enables instances of airline data and revenue management logic to be deployed remotely in the cloud, which can then serve local demand around the world.
According to Amadeus, by synchronising the airline’s central systems and the distributed instances of the airline’s availability calculation in real-time, consumers can search and shop for Lufthansa’s offers more efficiently and receive close to 100 per cent accurate results of the airline’s availability. At the same time, the airline does not lose out on any sale opportunity by being able to respond to these exponentially growing shopping requests, whilst protecting the airline’s own central systems.
Christophe Baroux, head of cloud platform, south Europe, Middle East & Africa, Google said, “Airlines are facing fluctuating demand which requires the ability to manage a high amount of transactions and strong peaks in traffic.”
A unique, cloud-based dynamic availability solution from Amadeus, Amadeus Airline Cloud Availability, will help airlines cope with this huge increase in search and shopping volumes, while applying dynamic revenue management strategies and enhancing the user experience.
Roland Schuetz, senior vice president, Lufthansa added, “Cache-based systems within major shopping engines have certain limitations and they do not accurately reflect our sophisticated revenue management policies.”
Herve Couturier, executive vice president, research and development, Amadeus said, “Amadeus is in a unique position to provide this ready-made solution to all airlines, including our Altéa customers, deploying and operating the same software in distributed instances with native data synchronisation. Importantly, this fully includes the application of the most advanced Origin-and-Destination revenue management logic.”
