Airlines
Adapt to the connected traveler by preparing your airline to meet new technology requirements and changing traveler needs with solutions from SAP.
Year-over-year profit margin growth is tied to best-in-class experiences
Traveler demands, financial pressure, technology advancements, and global growth are changing the rules. SAP empowers airlines to stay ahead of the game and provide exceptional experiences by becoming intelligent enterprises.
SAP Road Map for Airlines
Explore our airlines road map to learn about current industry solutions, planned innovations, and future direction.
Current release highlights
- Travel accelerator upgrade to IATA’s newest industry standard for NDC (v18.2) and ONE Order certification
- Integration with Gigya technology for customer and consumer profiling in SAP Marketing Cloud
- Unified predictive analytics and demand-driven material requirement planning
- Airline industry content in SAP Profitability and Performance Management
Upcoming innovations
- Extensibility capabilities for machine learning scenarios in marketing data management
- New interfaces to Google Analytics to analyze what drives people to a Web site
- Enhancement of the material requirement planning cockpit to improve capacity planning and supply handling
- Creation of a cockpit to manage financial plans
Future plans
- Implement customer journey management capabilities, such as check-in, boarding, and disruption
- Develop the holistic marketing automation platform for contextual marketing, leveraging machine learning and AI
- Support predictive maintenance planning and scheduling with connected assets and a connected workerforce
- Enhance fuel management with the ability to expose risks
Get the facts
less unplanned downtime where organizations optimize asset performance levels.
SAP Performance Benchmarking
increase in operating margins with historical and forward-looking views into finances and operations.
SAP Performance Benchmarking
Ensure a reliable, personalized air travel experience in a digital world
Optimize experiences with intelligent technologies
Integrate and increase transparency of end-to-end processes and operations and leverage real-world awareness to make decisions and solve problems in innovative ways.
Find airlines software tailored to your needs
Transition from services provider to traveler partner by gaining the insight and flexibility needed to provide a consistent, personalized experience.
Transform your business faster with help from SAP
Jump-start your SAP solutions and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers to receive guidance, prescriptive best practices, and expertise – no matter where you are on your journey.
Realize your business goals by simplifying and accelerating your digital transformation
In an era focused on continuous innovation and anticipating customer needs, it can be hard to turn your vision into reality. This is where services and support offerings from SAP can help. With over 40 years of experience, we can help you reach your business transformation goals, and everything in between.
Transform your business with unparalleled service support enterprise-wide
Services and support from SAP connects business and IT to help you close the gap between your digital transformation strategy and execution. From designing and value discovery to accelerated innovation to productive usage for tangible business results, you can evolve your business by breaking new ground with a trusted adviser that knows SAP software best.
What are leading analysts saying about trends in airlines?
Increasingly, airline companies are looking to solutions, such as SAP S/4HANA Finance, to help simplify the data picture, provide greater accuracy, and deliver real-time insights that can enhance decision-making, according to a Deloitte white paper.
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Outlast change with intelligent order management
Learn how airlines can support end-to-end visibility and simplify business models for unprecedented ROI with digital solutions setting a new industry standard.
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SAP for Travel and Transportation Community
Stay up to date on the latest innovations, trends, and solutions by joining other travel and transportation stakeholders. Learn and share insights through blogs, discussions, and events – and find out how SAP can help your travel and transportation business run better.
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