Air France, KLM Select Sirax AirFinance Platform From Lufthansa Systems

Lufthansa Systems, a full-service IT provider for the airline and aviation sector, has announced that Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will optimize their revenue accounting processes using its Sirax AirFinance Platform.

According to Lufthansa Systems, the integrated IT solution will enable the two airlines to speed up their financial management processes and increase productivity. KLM is already a long-standing customer for Lido OC, the flight planning system from Lufthansa Systems.

Lufthansa Systems will introduce the Sirax, SiraxCredit and SiraxView modules for Air France by May 2009 and then implement the system for KLM. While the two airlines will continue to operate revenue accounting on separate environments, they will have shared access to many functions and data in the future.

Lufthansa Systems said that the Sirax solution controls and manages the airline’s billing process by performing a fully automatic check of ticket sales against actual flight data. SiraxView offers airlines the full functionality of a traditional information management system.

The SiraxCredit module reportedly enables fast, precise and fully automated accounting and the invoicing of transactions by credit card and electronic direct debit.

Henri Dillies, vice president of revenue accounting at Air France, said: “The Sirax AirFinance Platform will standardize the revenue accounting systems and processes of both airlines and simplify our internal billing.”