Caribbean Airlines has signed an agreement with Sabre Airline Solutions, to provide a new system for its maintenance, repair and overhaul applications and to have that system delivered via Sabre eMergo Web access. 

Caribbean Airlines chose the Ramco MRO System, because of “its time to market, product superiority, hosting and the fact that Sabre Airline Solutions will be a single vendor for all our operations and MRO solutions,” said Captain Ian Brunton, executive vice president of operations for Caribbean Airlines.

The Ramco system will help Caribbean Airlines reduce operation and overhead costs while optimizing inventory, increasing operational performance and aircraft availability, and improving overall business process efficiency. It gives the airline a maintenance, repair and overhaul application that is all-encompassing and easy to use. By having the system delivered over the Internet and remotely accessed through the eMergo Web access environment, Caribbean will be able to obtain these benefits more rapidly than with a local installation.

“Our alliance with Ramco is growing stronger all the time,” said Sabre Airline Solutions product vice president Mike Douglass. “We are now engaged with them on every kind of delivery model possible: local access, local install and, now with Caribbean, ASP. It proves that we are in the right space at the right time with the right partner.

“Caribbean Airlines is the first Maxi-Merlin system customer to migrate to the Ramco system,” Douglass added. “We have around 40 current Maxi-Merlin system users today, and they can now use Caribbean’s experience with the new system to evaluate their future needs.” 

Douglass also said Sabre Airline Solutions “will be providing an integrated operations solution with the Sabre Flite Control Suite for Caribbean and that supports our “market, sell, serve, operate” strategy.”

“The officials at Caribbean, an icon in the southern Caribbean, possess excellent airline knowledge — they really know their business,” said Jim Fitzgerald, global executive vice president of Ramco MRO. “In order for us to earn their trust, we had to be able to incorporate their intelligence into our solution.” 

Caribbean Airlines was launched on January 01, 2007, to serve the Caribbean from its base in Trinidad and Tobago, the hub of the Americas, linking the twin-island republic and many other Caribbean islands with North America, South America, and the United Kingdom.