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American Airlines Cargo Announces Booking Availability on Cargo Portal Services

Posted on: Monday, 19 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines Cargo Division announced today that online booking functionality is now live on Cargo Portal Services (CPS), a multi-carrier electronic booking and shipment management service for the air cargo industry, supported by Unisys.

American's participation in CPS will provide its air cargo customers with an additional Web-based portal to access the 6.1 billion pounds of American Airlines Cargo capacity and nearly 200,000 flights available annually. CPS will offer bookings on all of American's cargo products, including Expedite fs(SM), which carries a 100% guarantee that the shipment will be flown as booked.

"Going live on CPS signifies an important milestone in the evolution of our e-commerce strategy," said Dave Brooks - President of American Airlines Cargo Division. "Our goal has been to enable customer self-sufficiency through online booking and shipment management solutions that address the specific needs of each customer segment, and we are delighted to now offer our customers three channels for online cargo bookings. We're pleased that the forwarding industry has been so supportive of our decision to join CPS."

In addition to CPS, American Airlines Cargo provides e-business channels through its AACargo.com Web site, and through London-based Global Freight Exchange (GF-X). These e-business channels provide the opportunity to save customers money by reducing transactions costs and other expenses.

"Unisys and the CPS community welcome American Airlines, since American adds a significant network to the service and helps to build a strong and growing community that is leading the adoption of Internet services in the air cargo industry," said Christopher Shawdon - Vice President and Partner, Logistics Services for Unisys.

About American Airlines Cargo

American Airlines Cargo(SM), a division of American Airlines, Inc., the world's largest airline, provides over 100 million pounds of weekly cargo lift capacity to major cities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. American Airlines is the world's largest carrier. American, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection regional airlines serve more than 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than 3,900 daily flights. The combined network fleet numbers more than 1,000 aircraft. American provides one of the largest cargo networks in the world, with cargo terminals and interline connections available across the globe. For more information visit http://www.aacargo.com/ .

About Cargo Portal Services

CPS is an electronic booking and Cargo 2000-accredited shipment management service for the air cargo industry. It was designed in cooperation with major carriers and forwarders, and is operated by Unisys. CPS serves the global cargo networks of American Airlines, Air Canada, Austrian Airlines, KLM, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines. Continental Airlines is in the process of going live on the service. Access to CPS is free for forwarders, both through the public Internet (http://www.cargoportalservices.com/ ) and through secure system-to-system connections. Over 5,500 branch offices of 2,500 forwarder companies in 95 countries are on-line with CPS.

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide technology services and solutions company. Our consultants apply Unisys expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, and server technology to help our clients achieve secure business operations. We build more secure organizations by creating visibility into clients' business operations. Leveraging Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise, we make visible the impact of their decisions -- ahead of investments, opportunities and risks. For more information, visit http://www.unisys.com/ . Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corporation. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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The address is http://www.aa.com/

American Airlines Cargo

CONTACT: Jennifer Pemberton of American Airlines Cargo, +1-817-967-1577,or corp.comm@aa.com

Web site: http://www.aacargo.com/http://www.cargoportalservices.com/http://www.unisys.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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