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  • Icon for file type: pdf VIP in Montevideo (134.4 KB)  
    137 downloads since then.

    When working on the Postal Administrations project at SITA, I travelled several times to Montevideo to meet PUASP (Postal Union of Americas, Spain and Portugal) there. On one of these trips I was welcomed as a VIP at MVD airport. Here is the story.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Skyway and how I discovered a strange cargo flight (119.9 KB)  
    69 downloads since then.

    Skyway was a database of combined passenger and cargo flights developped at the request of Postal Administrations. Here is the story about it.

  • Icon for file type: pdf A journey in the world of airline and air transport codes (330.6 KB)  
    156 downloads since then.

    Most of us were familiar with airline two alpha code and airport three
    letter codes. However some other airline codes, such as the numeric (or accounting codes) were less familiar to many of us. I am pleased to share herewith my souvenirs of these codes.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Rencontre avec Ruedi Bebié à Saint Rémy-de-Provence (787 KB)  
    155 downloads since then.

    Je suis allé rendre visite à Ruedi Bebié à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence en juin 2017. Voici le récit de notre rencontre.

  • Icon for file type: pdf My last project at SITA (211.1 KB)  
    122 downloads since then.

    Company referentials were introduced at SITA in the early 2000's.
    I was involved in this project because I needed them to improve activity and revenue reporting and forecasting, which had become my responsibility at that time.
    Here is the story...

  • Icon for file type: pdf Une négociation de Jacques Hagiarian (107.6 KB)  
    166 downloads since then.

    Le dernier bulletin d’ARASITA de février 2017 nous apprend que Jacques Hagiarian nous a quitté le 14 juillet 2016. Jacques Hagiarian nous laisse le souvenir d’une personne très souriante, aimable et toujours de bonne humeur. Mais c’était aussi un négociateur redoutable et un souvenir m’est revenu à ce sujet.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Routing in the SITA Network - part 2: DTN Phase 3 Routing (474.7 KB)  
    220 downloads since then.

    When the DTN was implemented in the early 80's, it used the same routing as the HLN: this was the DTN Phase 1. Then I worked on studying, defining and specifying a new routing algorithm for the DTN, which was implemented as DTN Phase 3 Routing. Phase 3 routing brought performance improvements as well as an easier management of the routing tables. This is the story I am telling here.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Routing in the SITA network - part 1: do you remember the best routes tables? (298.2 KB)  
    186 downloads since then.

    Routing in the SITA network was based on the use of “best routes tables”. However the production of these tables was, with the development of the HLN first and then the DTN, the source of challenges. This story, in which I was personally involved, tells what were these challenges and how they could be addressed.

  • Icon for file type: png Enigme: cette signature aparait sur un objet mystérieux: lequel et a qui a-t-il appartenu? (70.8 KB)  
    31 downloads since then.

    Cette signature se trouve sur un objet qui a appartenu à un membre Arasita
    Cette signature date de 1972… elle se trouve sur un objet qui nous a été offert à Londres par John Friend..
    J’ai retrouvé cet objet dans un carton « Sita » que je n’avais pas ouvert.
    Soit le propriétaire se reconnait et me fait signe, soit quelqu’un de l’équipe du moment reconnait la signature…
    La recherche est ouverte
    Amitiés Pierre

  • Icon for file type: jpg Account Manager Team in 1989 (1.2 MB)  
    75 downloads since then.

    Do you remember the creation of the Marketing Division, headed by Jean-Pierre Gaudard, at SITA with the Global Account Manager Team?
    Here they are meeting in Beaconsfield in UK in 1989!
    Can you name them all?

  • Icon for file type: odt Titre (9.6 KB)  
    80 downloads since then.

    Démo

  • Icon for file type: pdf Les débuts de SITA en Asie et Orient et le parcours de François Jean Beaumont (304.1 KB)  
    149 downloads since then.

    J'ai travaillé dans un des premiers centres radio de SITA, celui de Saïgon; je relate ici mon vécu.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Souvenir de tribulation en Afrique avec Henri Ruelle (83.5 KB)  
    84 downloads since then.

    Henri Ruelle nous a quitté le 10 février 2015 dans sa 95ème année.
    Le récit ci-joint que j'ai adressé initialement à Christiane, sa fille et à Rémy Jentgès, raconte nos mésaventures lors d'un voyage en Afrique, dans le cadre de nos activités SITA.

  • Icon for file type: pdf Les affres des vols en GP (371.1 KB)  
    48 downloads since then.

    Récit de mes mésaventures lors d'un voyage au Japon

  • Icon for file type: pdf le HLN a la fièvre! (235 KB)  
    71 downloads since then.

    Histoire (assez technique mais qui je l’espère intéressera également les non-techniciens car ce problème technique avait des implications importantes concernant le bon fonctionnement du réseau dans son ensemble).

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