ADP (Aéroport de Paris) selects BagAssist for its Lost & Found Baggage Departments at Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports

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Luc Trentels

By Luc Trentels, Founder and Manager, Sky Assist

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ADP (Aéroport de Paris) selects BagAssist for its Lost & Found Baggage Departments at Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. The solution will be implemented by the end of January 2005.

Zaventem, November 26, 2004

SkyAssist, the Belgian provider of advanced software for the air transportation industry, has widened its customer base by welcoming ADP (Aéroports de Paris) into the BagAssist user community. BagAssist manages lost and found baggage processes as well as passenger enquiries and also helps increase ground staff productivity leading to reduced unit costs. BagAssist delivers improved service quality to handled airlines and passengers looking to be reunited with their mishandled baggage.

Every day, thousands of passenger bags are mishandled by the airline industry and their owners want to be reunited with their bags quickly and expect their problems to be addressed as efficiently as possible, whether by airport authorities, ground handlers or airline representatives. To recover passenger loyalty, it is critical that resources work rapidly and in a flexible way, in order to meet passenger demands.

BagAssist, deployable as a web based application, is a great leap forward in the area of mishandled baggage and in addition to increasing ground staff productivity it delivers real time management information and helps reduce the costs associated with traditional telecommunication networks.

BagAssist, SkyAssist’s vanguard solution is an application that automates processes for the follow-up of lost and found baggage and it is integrated with SITA’s WorldTracerä, the worldwide standard for the tracing and recovery of lost luggage. BagAssist automatically produces all the required documents for both the passenger and the agent and also manages all information relating to flights, handling contracts, delivery agreements, etc…

With its intuitive, interactive and user-friendly interface working from an Internet browser, it is very easy to learn, providing immediate access to a centralized database.

"Thanks to BagAssist, we now offer handling companies, airports and airlines a baggage solution based on their current needs and processes", explains Luc Trentels, Founder and General Manager of SkyAssist. "Our open systems approach, through the internet, and our philosophy that aims for simplicity and integration, allows our customers to save on the high costs of developing tools themselves and using traditional networks. The ease of use of BagAssist also reduces the learning process for ground staff whilst enabling an immediate increase in productivity. We are confident that these benefits will ensure many other companies in the industry will soon join our customer community."

SkyAssist

Founded in 2003, from the technological and intellectual foundations of the former Atraxis, SkyAssist has rapidly become a key player in the market for software applications for the airline industry. BagAssist, targeted at ground handling companies, airlines and airports across the world is currently deployed by clients such as BGS (Brussels Airport), SN Brussels Airlines, Swissport (airports of Basle, Geneva and Zürich), Jet Aviation (airports of Geneva and Zürich), and TUI Airlines Belgium.

Luc Trentels

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Founder and Manager

Luc trentels has a Civil Engineer education background, in chemistry.

He entered Sabena IT department in October 95, as system analyst and then project manager. Sabena IT became then Atraxis Belgium, part of the Atraxis Group, where he was Director Project management, and then Director Product Management with teams in Belgium, Switzerland and South Africa in the Line of Business Airline Sales and Marketing.

Following Swissair and Sabena bankruptcies, and the closing of Atraxis Belgium, Luc Trentels decided with the support of the existing customers and the Sabena receivers to prepare a business plan for taking-over of the Atraxis Belgium owned products for further valorisation.

Sky Assist was created through this Management Buy Out process in April 2003 and officially started its activities on May 1st 2003. It is made of private investment only. Since then Luc manages the company that expanded its historical customer basis by having Jet Aviation, TUI Airlines and Aéroports de Paris joining the customer community.

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