Airport Connect OPEN is SITA’s Common Use solution for facilitating airlines’ agent-facing passenger check-in and boarding. Latest in SITA’s evolutionary product line (formerly known as CUTE, CUTE/OS, CUTE/NT and then AirportConnect CUTE), AirportConnect OPEN offers the air transport industry an ideal Common Use platform and IP-based infrastructure for the new millennium.

SAPS installed SITA CUTE at KHI, LHE and ISB in 2002-2003 and in 2007 SAPS in collaboration with SITA decided to upgrade CUTE with the latest AirportConnect OPEN at Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and for the first time at Peshawar.

AirportConnect OPEN is the only solution that enables airports, airlines and their handling agents to access their respective IT applications, both proprietary (i.e. “Dedicated”) and Common USE (i.e., “CUTE”) in real time, at any location at an airport, on equipment shared by all users, and using an array of the latest technologies. AirtportConnect OPEN offers an open architecture that provides a cost-effective and transparent global solution and benefits airport owners and airlines by optimizing limited terminal infrastructure, speeding passenger flow, and improving service levels