Cathay Pacific has extended its ITO contract with Unisys Australia for the development and management of its passenger service and logistics management systems. The new contract will run until 2012.

Under contract terms, Unisys will host and manage the Airline’s passenger service system, enabling Cathay Pacific to generate flight schedules, display seat availability, manage flight inventory, record passenger bookings, and handle passenger check-in and departures at airports across its network. The Logistics Management System suite of cargo applications enable Cathay Pacific to manage its cargo operations including inventory control, bookings, warehouse operations and customs interfaces across its world-wide network.

W Y Chow, Manager of IT Operations for Cathay Pacific, “The Unisys passenger and logistics solutions are mission critical applications. In today’s competitive aviation market and business environment, it is important to work with a partner like Unisys who understands our industry, the nature of our changing business and the need for system reliability and uptime to service our customers. The system availability provided by Unisys has exceeded our requirements.”