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SITA is a multinational
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
  company specialising in providing IT and telecommunication services to the aviation
Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
 industry. Known originally as "Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques", the company no longer uses this long name and is now known simply as SITA.

SITA was founded in February 1949 by 11 airline
Airline

File:Fedex-md11-N525FE-051109-21-16.jpgFile:Ryanair.b737-800.aftertakeoff.arp.jpgAn airline provides civil aviation for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license....
s, as a cooperative
Cooperative

A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled business....
 providing communications between airports
Airline teletype technology

The airline teletype system uses teleprinters, which are electro-mechanical typewriters that can communicate typed messages from point to point through simple electric communications channels, often just pairs of wires....
 and pioneering telecommunications. The company was the first to handle data traffic in real time via a packet switched network
Packet switching

Packet switching is a network communications method that groups all transmitted data, irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets....
 over common carrier
Common carrier

A common carrier is a business that transports people, goods, or services and offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body....
 leased line
Leased line

A leased line is a Symmetric#Symmetry_in_telecommunications telecommunications line connecting two locations. It is sometimes known as a 'Private Circuit' or 'Data Line' in the UK....
s.

The company has evolved from its early days of providing only network services as a cooperative, and today provides a range of IT as well as communication services on a cooperative basis as well as on a commercial basis.






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SITA is a multinational
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
  company specialising in providing IT and telecommunication services to the aviation
Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
 industry. Known originally as "Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques", the company no longer uses this long name and is now known simply as SITA.

SITA was founded in February 1949 by 11 airline
Airline

File:Fedex-md11-N525FE-051109-21-16.jpgFile:Ryanair.b737-800.aftertakeoff.arp.jpgAn airline provides civil aviation for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license....
s, as a cooperative
Cooperative

A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled business....
 providing communications between airports
Airline teletype technology

The airline teletype system uses teleprinters, which are electro-mechanical typewriters that can communicate typed messages from point to point through simple electric communications channels, often just pairs of wires....
 and pioneering telecommunications. The company was the first to handle data traffic in real time via a packet switched network
Packet switching

Packet switching is a network communications method that groups all transmitted data, irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets....
 over common carrier
Common carrier

A common carrier is a business that transports people, goods, or services and offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body....
 leased line
Leased line

A leased line is a Symmetric#Symmetry_in_telecommunications telecommunications line connecting two locations. It is sometimes known as a 'Private Circuit' or 'Data Line' in the UK....
s.

The company has evolved from its early days of providing only network services as a cooperative, and today provides a range of IT as well as communication services on a cooperative basis as well as on a commercial basis. SITA has over 600 members and more than 1800 customers, and - uniquely - is still dedicated solely to providing services to the global aviation industry (for airlines, airports, GDSs (Global Distribution Systems) and other aviation companies). Being dedicated to the aviation industry means that SITA needs to be present in all countries where the aviation industry operates, and today SITA operates in over 220 countries and territories, employing people of more than 140 nationalities, speaking over 70 different languages.

SITA is owned by its air transport industry members, from whom the SITA Board is comprised. The company has the remit of serving the aviation community’s wider interests. This role remains faithful to the principles adopted when SITA was first established in 1949, meaning that SITA aims to work with the air transport community, for the benefit of the community. This includes working with industry bodies, such as IATA, to solve multi-stakeholder common industry issues through the use of IT and telecommunication services. This involves working on the development of community systems, industry standards and shared infrastructures for aviation.

Franceso Violante heads the SITA organization now based in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
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Management

Chief Executive Officer - Francesco Violante
Chief Finance Officer - Colm O'Higgins
Chief Information Officer - Jean-Pascal Aubert
Board Secretary - Johanna Verboom
Senior Vice President, Communications Services - René Azoulai
Senior Vice President, Sales and Relationship Management - Richard Stokes
Senior Vice President, Customer Services & Operations - Dave Bakker
Senior Vice President, Marketing - Arthur Calderwood
Senior Vice President, Strategic Change and Corporate Development - Ian Riddell
Senior Vice President, Human Resources - Val Summer
Senior Vice President, Application Services Business Unit - Bruno Frentzel
Senior Vice President, New Ventures & Large Deals Group - Norbert Steiger
Head of Group Internal Audit and Risk Management - Philip D’Hondt
Head of Legal - David Greaves


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