Navitaire Adds Four New Customers

Business Wire, Oct 1, 2004

MINNEAPOLIS -- Navitaire, a leading provider of online reservations and other services to the airline industry, has added four new customers. With these new carriers, Navitaire is expanding its roster of clients to now include regional airlines.

The four new customers, who join a growing list of carriers operating on the Navitaire airline distribution, decision support and operations platforms, include:

--Three low-fare airlines, Vueling, a new airline headquartered in Barcelona, Spain; SkyEurope Airlines, based in Central Europe (Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland); and the new low fare airline based in Singapore backed by Qantas, Temasek Holdings and other Singaporean interests which will be launched later this year; and

--Independence Air, the new Washington-Dulles based carrier, born out of the old Atlantic Coast Airlines, and the first regional airline to re-invent itself as a low-fare carrier.

With the addition of these four new customers, Navitaire now powers more than 30 airline reservation systems around the world, supporting the direct sale of more than 75 percent of the tickets sold through each of the airline's Web sites. Additionally, Navitaire has the highest average online sales percentage of any major reservation provider in the airline industry.

"Our innovative solutions position us well to accommodate the growth needs of the new generation carriers as well as support the transformation of established carriers in the industry," said John Dabkowski, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Navitaire.

About Navitaire

Navitaire Inc. provides reservations, direct distribution, revenue protection, operations recovery, decision-support and passenger revenue accounting services to the airline industry through its hosted delivery model. The company's worldwide customer base comprises more than 45 airlines, including six of the world's 10 largest airlines, and such successful carriers as jetBlue, Air Asia, GOL Airlines, Ryanair, Continental Airlines, and Air New Zealand. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Navitaire is headquartered in Minneapolis, with offices in Salt Lake City, Austin, Sydney, Manila and Prague. Its homepage is www.navitaire.com