Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) has selected Rockwell Collins’ ARINC vMUSE™ common use passenger processing solution (CUPPS) for 14 South Korean airports. In 2016, KAC airports handled 62 million passengers traveling on around 380 thousand domestic flights.
The South Korean aviation industry is growing significantly, with average annual increases of 6.7 percent for flights and 14.2 percent for passengers over the last five years. The launch of new airlines and air routes has created a need to expand the infrastructure of airport facilities and to efficiently utilise airport resources. In order to meet this need, KAC has expanded its use of Rockwell Collins’ ARINC vMUSE, presently put into service at Gimpo, Kimhae and Jeju Airports for international flights, for use at all its domestic airports. ARINC vMUSE facilitates the passenger check-in process, optimises operating costs and enables the proper utilisation of airport resources.
“Over the past 10 years, low-cost carriers (LCCs) have increasingly become an important part of South Korea’s aviation market,” said Christopher Forrest, vice president of Airport Systems for Rockwell Collins. “KAC initiated this project to assist new LCCs that want to fly into Korea’s domestic and international airports, but do not have dedicated check-in counters. This solution enables those airlines to connect to their own reservation system from any check-in counter, improving efficiency and significantly reducing downtime.”
Besides the most recent agreement, all of Korea’s main low-cost carriers are using Rockwell Collins’ ARINC GLOBALinkSM to flawlessly communicate and exchange information with ground crews and airline host systems.
