Rosaviatsia proposes introducing regulatory requirements for airlines to switch to domestic booking systems, said the head of the agency, Alexander Neradko, Interfax reports.
“A high-quality domestic system must emerge, we must offer this range of services to airlines, and then introduce regulatory requirements - but only with a delayed deadline for the introduction of this requirement. That is, not immediately, but give a transition period," he told journalists on the sidelines of the RUBAE business aviation exhibition.
According to him, such a system is already operating at Sheremetyevo Airport, and developments are also underway “under the auspices of Rostec.”
“This needs to be done – we need to move towards import substitution, including in terms of booking and reservations, otherwise the slightest failure in these systems, the servers of which are located abroad, could lead to disorganization of work at large airports,” noted A. Neradko.
Earlier in August, the head of Rosaviatsia held a meeting during which he called for the acceleration of the transition of airlines to domestic booking systems. As noted by the department, Russian air carriers currently use several main booking and sales systems for air travel, four of which are foreign: Spanish Amadeus, American Sabre and Galileo, and Swiss Gabriel SITA. The largest Russian booking system is Sirena-Travel.
Last year, Amadeus was criticized by the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev. At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the official said that the system sets prices for airline tickets in such a way that the antimonopoly regulator "has suspicions about the violation of competition in this market." V. Putin then ordered an investigation. At the same time, experts noted that the problems with pricing for airline tickets are not in the booking systems - Russian airlines set tariffs according to the same principles as carriers around the world, using dynamic pricing.
Source: trn-news.ru