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Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus has delivered over 3,400 aircraft to more than180 customers world-wide, and boasts a healthy order book of some 1,500 aircraft for delivery over the coming years. With an annual turnover of 19.3 billion Euro in 2003, Airbus is a global company with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain as well as subsidiaries in the U.S., China and Japan. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus is an EADS joint Company with BAE SYSTEMS.

 

Boullioun Aviation Services, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, "Boullioun") was established in 1986 by E. H. "Tex" Boullioun, the internationally renowned former president of Boeing’s Commercial Airplane Group. After a decade of steady growth in portfolio size, market coverage, aircraft under management and profits, Boullioun became one of the world’s premier aircraft operating lessors. Today, Boullioun is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WestLB AG.

Boullioun maintains its headquarters in the Seattle area and has offices in the United Kingdom and Singapore. A worldwide staff of over 60 includes experienced, highly regarded professionals with expertise in the areas of aircraft leasing, finance, tax, law, engineering and technical management.

The Boullioun delivered and managed portfolio consists of 85 aircraft: 28 B737-300s, 11 B737-400s, 12 B737-700s, 12 B737-800s, 2 B757-200ERs, 3 B767-300ERs, 3 A319-100s, 13 A320-200s and 1 A3231-200 subject to operating leases with 37 carriers based in the United States, Asia, South America and Europe. Boullioun has another 90 aircraft on firm order or optioned consisting of Airbus 320 and Boeing Next-Generation 737 family aircraft.

Since 1995, Boullioun has, on behalf of itself, SALE and third parties, placed 136 aircraft on lease with 62 airlines, concluded sale and leaseback and other back-to-back transactions involving 57 aircraft and sold 52 aircraft to airlines and investors.

CFM International is the world's leading manufacturer of aircraft engines in the 100Pax+ aircraft market, with a wide family of engines powering 29 aircraft models for 380 customers worldwide both in the commercial as well as the military sectors. Over 46 percent of the 14000 aircraft ordered over the past 19 years in the 100Pax+ market are powered by CFM56 engines.

 

 

GE Aircraft Engines, a part of GE Transportation, is the world's leading  producer of large and small jet engines for commercial and military  aircraft.  GE also supplies aircraft-derived engines for marine  applications.  Its GE Engines Services has operations worldwide for engine overhaul, component repair, accessories, engine testing, and on-wing support.
GE's technology leadership, supported by substantial investments in  research and development, has been the foundation of its growth. With  almost $1 billion (U.S.) dedicated annually for creating new propulsion  systems - from regional jet engines to the world's most powerful jet engine - GE is developing technologies to enhance airline profitability and address more-stringent environmental regulatory requirements.
Since the early 1990s, more than 50% of the world's large commercial jet engine orders were awarded to GE or CFM International, a 50/50 joint  company of  GE and Snecma Moteurs of France. GE and CFM combine for more than 15,000 engines in airline service, the industry's largest and  fastest-growing installed base of large commercial jet engines.  GE is  also the leading engine producer for the growing regional jet market,  where GE's CF34 engine family has been a propulsion innovator.

ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com) created the world's first modern system for airfare pricing, airfare shopping and seat availability management in over 30 years. QPX by ITA Software has been proven to be best in the industry by Orbitz, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, Alitalia, America West, Continental Airlines, Galileo, Accovia, NLG and others.  QPX's proprietary
technology makes it easy to quickly calculate all available airfares in response to a travel query and then to book and ticket any itinerary directly in a carrier's inventory system or in a CRS. QPX can be fully customized for different markets, market segments, channels or customers.

Founded by computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, ITA Software provides innovative modern software solutions to the air travel industry.

Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company, has been a world leader in aerospace propulsion for nearly 80 years with a full range of products and services from general aviation and business jet engines to high performance commercial and military power plants, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.

Pratt & Whitney commercial aircraft engines power about half the world's airliner fleet with nearly 16,000 engines in service with hundreds of customers around the world every day.  These are supported by a global network of more than 20 overhaul and repair centers offering complete  fleet management programs.

Since the beginning of the jet age Pratt & Whitney has built more than 42,000 military aircraft engines. Today the F100 family of engines powers F-15 and F-16 fighters. The new F119 and F135 engines serve the F-22 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The U.S. Air Force C-17 airlifted uses the F177 engine.  Pratt & Whitney Canada builds engines for the general aviation, business aircraft, helicopter and regional airline markets with over 56,000 engines produced. P&WC reaches every corner of the world with more than 8,200 operators.

Research and development has been the key to Pratt & Whitney's success with today's efforts focused on performance improvements to enhance fuel burn, cut emissions and decrease noise.

Sabre Airline Solutions, a Sabre Holdings company, is the world's proven leader of software products for the airline industry, offering passenger management solutions and consulting services for airlines to simplify their operations and lower costs.   More than 200 airlines around the world use its broad portfolio of smart solutions as decision-support tools to increase revenues and improve operations.  More than 100 airlines worldwide rely on Sabre Airline Solutions for passenger management solutions.  In addition, more than 100 airline industry clients around the world have turned to the Sabre Airline Solutions consulting group for strategic, commercial and operational consulting.

Celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year, SALE is firmly established as one of the world's premier leasing companies. Headquartered in Singapore, and with offices in London, Washington DC and San Diego California, the company offers truly global reach and has aircraft flying with airlines in every region of the world.
With an average age of just five years, the SALE fleet is based primarily around new generation aircraft types, including the A320 family, B737NG, A330 and B777. In addition to direct operating leases, the company undertakes purchase and leaseback transactions on new aircraft, plus a wide range of structured finance, marketing and technical services.

 

 

 

Unisys is a worldwide information services, solutions and technology company. Our people combine expertise insystems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, server technology and consulting with precision thinking and relentless execution.

For a half century we have provided leading solutions, services and technologies to airlines, airports, logistics, and travel organizations. Our clients include 200 airlines - including 21 of the top 25 - and more than 100 airports.

Today 29% of all passengers and 38% of the world's cargo are processed on our systems. And we are the leading provider of solutions and technology to the Chinese aviation industry.

The depth of our domain knowledge enables us to provide a full range of end-to-end services driven by our service line practices in Transportation Management Consulting, Passenger Services, Logistics, Airport Operations, Maintenance & Engineering, and Travel, Distribution and Hospitality. Our highly experienced transportation consultants focus on strategic and management consulting, business transformation, solution implementation and technologies.

Our awards include contracts with the Transportation Security Administration - opening over 429 airports in the U.S. for our security solutions - and the Board of Airline Representatives, Australia, which will provide baggage reconciliation systems to all major Australian airports.