BagAssist newsletter - December 2004

Sky Assist
Luc Trentels

By Luc Trentels, Founder and Manager, Sky Assist

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ADP (Aéroports 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. More information in the press release dated November 26th, 2004 and on our web site.

BGS white paper - BagAssist and BagAutorush, ten years of success

The birthday of the ten years of collaboration between Belgian Ground Services and Sky Assist, in terms of products, is a nice opportunity to publish a white paper on BagAssist, Sky Assist solution used in Lost & Found department that showed up to 40% staff productivity increase and BagAutorush, solution used in Baggage Control department.

Swissport selects BagAutorush for Zürich Airport

Swissport has decided to implement BagAutorush in Zürich airport, effective by the end of December 2004. This strengthens further the collaboration between Sky Assist and Swissport, launching customer of BagAssist in the web thin client version since May 2002.

At the same time, Swissport Int'l is further analyzing the option of expanding its stations using BagAssist outside Switzerland to allow them to have benefit from the added values of BagAssist functions.

For more information on BagAssist or BagAutorush (including internet demo access or software price quotation), please visit our web site www.skyassist.com or email me at luc.trentels@skyassist.com

BagAssist suite - "The professional solution that automates your work in the primary baggage handling and tracing processes.

BagAssist key benefits:

  • Fully covering and automating the primary tracing business process, from the passenger declaration to the delivery of his bag;
  • Comprehensive user-friendly screens and professional output documents (passenger reports, baggage labels, for delivery companies), which results in:
  • Increases the staff productivity and reduces the training needs
  • Increased quality and professionalism towards the passenger and the handled airlines
  • Professional approach in the collaboration with external contractors;
  • Contains all necessary on-line information and related triggers.

BagAutorush key benefits:

  • Optimize baggage handling performance to:
  • Decrease the number of rushed bags (better service to handled airlines, improved passenger service by reducing lost bags, reduction of tracing files cost)
  • Improve productivity at Baggage Control(interfaces supporting automated decision making)
  • Where need of rushed bag, interaction with SITA WorldTracer(TM) (FWD automatically created, stations informed and pro-active passenger service recovery);
  • Manual decision reduced to nearly zero
  • Staff training done in minutes, no need for IT or WorldTracer(TM) knowledge
  • Staff low profile requirements, implying manpower cost reduction.
Luc Trentels

Author Information - Luc Trentels

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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