WikiSITA | Santiago Albornoz | Group Activity https://wikisita.com/members/salbornoz/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Santiago Albornoz is a member. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:50:49 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 fa0f9a227d3985475ce629f68c26ed69 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1007/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:23:51 +0100 Second exerpt

]]> 0 7f533de0958104addd60c23c41de88fa Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1006/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:03:36 +0100 Table of Content

]]> 0 ce73bf84e6a6b03a343729bcb25f1dd4 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1005/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:02:37 +0100 Third exerpt

]]> 0 2bdebefef66e955469564283863b4aa9 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA from Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1004/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:01:30 +0100 0 129549c3df70c504bd311b66d5e48a51 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA from Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1003/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:01:20 +0100 0 1028572fa7b79ca56566baecec7f8cb4 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Extracts from Fausto^s recently published book, a memoir about his professional life with the airline industry and SITA to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/1000/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:58:35 +0100 Second exerpt

]]> 0 d4bf240512a80319538de4fc95331af7 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: My Life From a Window Seat - a Memoir , by Fausto Gardini to Anecdotes / Stories https://wikisita.com/activity/p/997/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:51:55 +0100 Fausto Gardini has published a book in which he shares the souvenirs of his professional life in the airline industry and SITA. He shares with us exerpts from his book, which may be bought on Amazon (or directly from the author)

]]> 0 ee976efdbb1e7fda2b4319c671bf888e Jack de Witte joined the group wikisita SAM and Spanish speaking https://wikisita.com/activity/p/976/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:49:16 +0100 0 76b3df611c3f353d15742a2bfbe7a67f Jacques Bernard joined the group Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/841/ Mon, 08 May 2023 10:52:09 +0200 0 2f75235a05beeaf14b29c3ada31b8722 Benoit Vedel uploaded the file: SITA Paris moves to a new site! to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/838/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:05:35 +0100 SITA Paris was locatred at 112 avenue CHarles De Gaulle since 1968. In March 2023, SITA is moving to a new buiulding (see https://www.carre-suffren-paris.com/) in the 15 th district of Paris.
On this occasion, a (hybrid) Town Hall event has been organized on 09 March 2023. Here is the presentation which I have prepared for this celebration.

]]> 0 fe2372191881b49edce26d53e88925eb Benoit Vedel joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/837/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:52:52 +0100 0 d60b7c030fa4e5359b336cea8e66920a Andrée Haubert joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/834/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:48:06 +0100 0 ccb6d966856e73970d879cc2884e1d19 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Khun Salak to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/764/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:33:31 +0100 Coming from Indochina I had been appointed Manager for Thailand on the 1st of February
1964 and one of my first jobs at Bangkok was the recruitment of Khun Salak with whom,
although I did not expect it at that time, I was going to work closely with for more than three
decades expanding our organization all over the Far East and Pacific area.
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]]> 0 3fecd800221b5c794798c6f3e58d19fe Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: Wikisita members 05/07/2022 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/758/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:47:00 +0200 0 9344c40f27df3602d8232e2a59643bc9 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA and SWIFT in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/746/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:04:01 +0100 0 48f8ed8142504c640eae73bae7338106 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA and SWIFT to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/745/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:05:03 +0100 Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb043df5edfeb7222c2dbbd32f86381d Bernard Leroy edited the file: Tibet in Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/736/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:12:47 +0100 0 d1e1fadd7d2bfcd1665c952ea1e274bb Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Tibet to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/735/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:02:39 +0100 The first time I went to Tibet the country was already in a transition period
and in full effervescence, the people were handling the move towards a
more modern world. Since that time, like in the whole Far East, the
changes have been tremendous.

]]> 0 64038bdd2e89940339735be5f7c6b828 Dries Bessels joined the group Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/713/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:28:26 +0200 0 634856340f92a5316dd90e8df28bb1e6 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: By train from Beijing to Lhasa.pdf to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/710/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:33:21 +0200 0 19fabf080fb47d81ed5804f56f457055 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Springtime and lockdown to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/709/ Fri, 28 May 2021 12:31:56 +0200 0 164a92c06a1274d9c0997f1277222512 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Wikisita members to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/705/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:16:55 +0200 List of Wikisita members as of 13 April 2021

]]> 0 86e5f4677c86c367e6b2e4a1f858ff99 Bernard Leroy posted an update in the group Far East: Bernard Leroy uploaded new file(s): bhutan-1994.pdf to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/704/ Sun, 11 Apr 2021 20:03:04 +0200 Bernard Leroy uploaded new file(s): bhutan-1994.pdf to Far East

]]> 0 925884932ab69c27fab8371388a4dcd9 Bernard Leroy posted an update in the group Far East: « An Hui « or « the Cradle of Chinese Landscape Pa […] https://wikisita.com/activity/p/668/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:41:48 +0100 « An Hui « or « the Cradle of Chinese Landscape Painting” here is the link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/dt6sahfj86xu28d/An%20Hui.mp4?dl=0C

]]> 0 03eea8d5dd47a67a76e26ef0bdb05c63 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: An Hui2 from Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/667/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:24:41 +0100 0 31f3caa6d5a744b62bd83208735bc4ec Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: An Hui from Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/666/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:16:11 +0100 0 8eafba6a55516c50bdc031f2b427f221 Bernard Leroy uploaded the file: Falklands, South Georgia and Antartica to Far East https://wikisita.com/activity/p/660/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:22:51 +0100 Dear Friends,
The Falklands war between Argentina and UK had sparked my interest in this region. .
I am pleased to share with you the movie made during my trip there.

]]> 0 f37778b0ef2893253a6f13866e23823f Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/657/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:37:23 +0100 0 bb12fdc3e0ae9595626f6ca58be0ec38 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/656/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:53:01 +0100 0 2102cf5f75be6af9da3372b0f64cc589 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/655/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:21:46 +0100 0 89780a6799b0ab79795a5c157a771eb5 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA's History: The First 30 Years to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/654/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:40:49 +0100 In this document published in 1979 in the “SITA ANNUAL REPORT 1978”, SITA’s history is presented in detail , icluding the role of the founding airlines and their representative.
A very unique tribute to the role of all those who made SITA possible as a worldwide reality!

]]> 0 f1c894d2f31f183c328fe31ede251bec Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/652/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:04:14 +0100 0 1537f9eff4c5522f89578cdd3cf83971 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: The SITA network in the 70's to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/651/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:32:27 +0100 This technical paper was authored by G Chrétien, W Konig and J Rech and published in 1975 in the NATO Advanced Study Series on Computer Communication Networks.
The SITA network as it stood before the deployment of the DTN is
fully described.

]]> 0 eaaa349ad780e9031f98455b61f8fdbd Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/650/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:45:24 +0100 0 0adf947296108482dcf07d4cc6d9939c Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HLN and First Type A transmission with BEA in 1971 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/649/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:46:17 +0100 0 3fcd47a56cabcff864e61c45cbc3bab3 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/648/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:30 +0100 0 2bbafeb20c953078882a1d6be0fc0e44 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/647/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:18 +0100 0 7117dac10953365cde16a2f61329524c Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/646/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:07 +0100 0 edeae4a7f363fe9ae11e739d10d9137d Jean-Michel Kaliszewski deleted the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network from Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/645/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:37:51 +0100 0 fab332497056b5387ecd224d45f201f6 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/644/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:37:38 +0100 This paper, written by Joachim Brandt and Georges Chrétien, was presented at the Symposium on Computer Communications Networks and Teletraffic, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, April 4-6, 1972.
In this paper the principal methods to control and operate a store-and-forward network are considered. The Sita network and Type A and Type B traffic…[Read more]

]]> 0 88d65131933fcd4a147c25da62be84b8 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/640/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:31:56 +0100 0 5ea704fcbc8b5fce2ff3e1bbf729f580 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/639/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:15:04 +0100 SITA Head Office was located, until 1968 at 9, rue Théodore de Banville in Paris. A photograph of that building is shown in this documment.
You will also find another picture (taken in 1978?) of a meeting held apparently in Vancouver and on which we can recognize some young men: Solly Dwek, K.S. Molenaar and D. Andorka.

]]> 0 b02c82f6813165db227d13252a4d10ca Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: Photogragh of a SITA meeting in Singapore in 1971. to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/637/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:54:40 +0100 SITA held a meeting in Singapore in 1971 for the purpose of developing network facilities in the Pacific area. On this photogragh we can see G. Monniot, then General Manager of SITA, addressing the audience.

]]> 0 4fdf2d348a24540ad5772a215676db57 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA NYC Center in 1971 to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/636/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:50:08 +0100 The SITA NYC center was the “most sophisticated in the entire network”. in 1971 the decision was taken to replace the former Univac 418-II with a more powerfull Univac 418-III. This migration was performed in September 1971 and came along with a relocation of the site to Bohemia. The photograph shows the new installation.

]]> 0 185767f13bd600032c13da55c5327592 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: The SITA network in 1970 to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/635/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:41:43 +0100 In 1970 the HLN was put in operation. See the complete set of maps of the SITA network in 1970!

]]> 0 f9f6bf35dc298b7d4d3ccf4dae52d253 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA Head OfficeManagement in 1975 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/634/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:38:30 +0100 0 50cacdd0eac22b15733757061ea857f4 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski edited the file: SITA HLN and First Type A transmission wiuth BEA in 1971 in Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/633/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:38:18 +0100 0 3090e9ff449e7329cbe2ef98d573ecda Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA HLN and First Type A transmission wiuth BEA in 1971 to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/632/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:36:11 +0100 1971 was the first aniversary of SITA HLN network as well as first transmission over the HLN of Type A traffic done for BEA with a CRT in ROM and the BEA BEACON ASRS – 5 computer reservation system in LON.

]]> 0 2d0795da2cc4f68cc657ec8b08561333 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: SITA Head OfficeManagement in 1975 to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/631/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:31:07 +0100 Picture of SITA Head Office Management in 1975 with list of names (from SITA Annual Report 1975)

]]> 0 c987440062c33637923ee5eeb3eb6d04 Jean-Michel Kaliszewski uploaded the file: s.i.t.a. monograph 2: Some head office activities, D.Kroneberg ,editor to Wikisita Main https://wikisita.com/activity/p/630/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:25:17 +0100 In this monograph edited by D. Kroneberg in July 1972 to inform SITA Members about the main tasks of SITA Management.
The introduction is from Georges Monniot and there are contributions from R. Bébié, C. Avignon, B. Weibel, A. Carson, C. Deroual, D. Andorka and D. Kroneberg.
Surprisingly there no article on the SITA oldest service still in a…[Read more]

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