Sky Assist Arrival Services – Lost and Found Automated Baggage Handling and Tracing Software

Sky Assist is organising its annual BagAssist user conference to be held in the Van Der Valk hotel, Brussels, Belgium.

Being a ground handling company dealing with Arrival Services Lost & Found is nowadays not easy if you want to offer good services to handled airlines and stay profitable. 

Like each year Sky Assist will be present at the exhibition and conference organized by GHI in Barcelona, Spain, from 27 until 30 November 2017.

Like each year Sky Assist represented by Luc Trentels (managing director) will be present at the WorldTracer user conference organised by SITA in Las Vegas, US, from 6-8 November 2017.

For the 14th time, Sky Assist organises its annual BagAssist user conference to be held in Brussels on 20 and 21 June 2017 in the Van Der Valk hotel, Brussels, Belgium.

Sky Assist decided in late 2015 to start developing from scratch its BagAssist core application for agents. The main reasons were that, even though BagAssist has been coded as a web-based application, technology has heavily evolved since the first modules were available in 2002, implying technical constraints like limiting application mobility to other browsers than Internet Explorer, responsive design, time response optimisation and heavy maintenance.

A brand new module is ready for going live for all BagAssist customers, in its desktop version or running on a tablet as an hybrid app (compatible iPad and Android): the Auto-DR / Delivery module.

This year, Sky Assist product manager Eric Stessels will be present at the exhibition and conference organised by GHI in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 28 to 30 November 2016.

Sky Assist, represented by Luc Trentels (managing director), will be present at the WorldTracer user conference organised by SITA in Shanghai, China, from 31 October until 02 November 2016.

In mid-2016, Sky Assist upgraded its e-AHLmanage solution by allowing each handler to configure when and whether data are retrieved from World Tracer or from the BagAssist database. This new feature opens a lot of new opportunities for e-AHLmanage.

Until recently, passengers coming to pick-up their delayed baggage at Brussels Airport had to access the lost and found offices via the same way than the passengers exiting the arrival area.

m-AHLreport is our new mobile application for passengers to declare their missing bags on their smartphone. e-AHLreport is already used by several of our customers (Air France KLM, Swissport, SBA) for some years. During mid-2014, we developed m-AHLreport, the mobile version of e-AHLreport in collaboration with Air France.

At Sky Assist, communicating with the operations at arrival services and customer relations is critical: it helps us developing our solutions in line with the industry's needs. On a regular basis, we discuss one-to-one with our customers to share their personal experience of our products.

During the first two weeks of November, SkyAssist will take part in two international industry events to spread the latest news about ground-handling operations and meet new and existing customers.

The Airline IT Trends Survey from SITA forecasts a boost in mobile usage for the coming years.

"A smooth and hassle-free journey where passengers do not have to break stride from the curb to the gate, unless they choose to, is the goal: that would deliver tremendous value to passengers." explained Transport Association's (IATA) chief executive Tony Tyler at its 2013 World Passenger Symposium.

Summer is a great season to travel! So we thought that we would make you travel by showing you where in the world BagAssist and the self-service applications are used. You will see that our BagAssist community is very international.

At Sky Assist, communicating with the operations at arrival services and customer relations is critical: it helps us developing our applications in line with the industry’s needs. For this reason, we renewed our website, created a community portal for our BagAssist customers and joined the conversation on LinkedIn.

SITA has published its yearly baggage report and announced an overall increase in performance.

In February 2014, we updated Sky Assist company page on LinkedIn. It now contains a presentation of Sky Assist and a description of each of our products and services.

Based on the data of several of our customers using self-service products, we have been able to extract some general statements regarding the use of self-service applications.

During the last BagAssist user conference, held for the company 10th anniversary in Amsterdam, Holland on 27-29 May 2013, the BagAssist community did participate to a survey to rename the self-services applications for passengers originally called OnlineAHL, OnlineDelivery and PaxAHL.

Sky Assist strengthens its partnership with SITA by signing a web service development agreement for WorldTracer. Since few months, SITA has built WorldTracer connectivity using web services, allowing product providers like Sky Assist to develop and test applications connecting to WorldTracer.

Many efforts have been made the last decade to enhance passenger experience through self-service offers, but mainly in pre-departure area only like online check-in, self-baggage tagging or self-baggage drop. However passengers claim interest for more initiatives in that sensible part of the journey too, seen as the second factor in having an (un)pleasant journey.

Ground Handling International magazine will be holding the 15th Annual 2013 conference in Spain. Sky Assist is participating to this event for the 9th time for promoting BagAssist, the web-based suite of products automating the primary baggage tracing process for lost baggage with special focus on self-services applications.

Sky Assist will be at WorldTracer conference as BDS customer and WorldTracer web services developers, and will also be present as exhibitor with a stand. Find us 4 - 6 November 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Sky Assist will be holding a stand at the 2013 WACRA (Worldwide Airline Customer Relations Association) in Chicago, United States. Sky Assist will promote PaxClaims, the web-based product for airline complaint management of an Airline Customer Relations department & Refund, the web-based product for airline ticket / coupons refund of an Airline Finance department.

On May 1st 2013, Sky Assist became IATA Strategic partner in Baggage Services area. This is one more step forward in the company recognition as major niche player in baggage services area, with specialisation in lost and found delayed baggage services.

Ground Handling International magazine will be holding the 14th Annual 2012 conference in Italy. Sky Assist is participating to this event for the 8th time and will be promoting BagAssist.

Sky Assist will be holding a stand at the 2012 WACRA (Worldwide Airline Customer Relations Association) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 23 to 26 September 2012.

Qantas went live at the beginning of June 2012 with the mishandled baggage BagAssist kiosk PaxAHL application at Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney airports. The delayed bag passenger declaration system uses an airport kiosk as an alternative to passengers queuing at the agent's desk.

Swissport International, the world's leading provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has launched a state-of-the art self-service solution for passengers arriving in Geneva that increases the quality and efficiency of missing bag reporting.

In these difficult industry times, lost and found departments are often under-staffed and often don't have any real flexible way to add untrained people as the processes and applications are so specific and complex. Therefore, any small incident can easily create chaos to baggage services and take days to recover with frustrated staff facing angry customers.

New customers have been joining the Sky Assist customer community in 2011. Arc Transports and Colitel have been selected by Air France for their baggage deliveries, respectively in Paris CDG and ORY for Arc (replacing JAP Transports), in Nice and Bordeaux for Colitel. These two companie

Following the user conference successfully held in Brussels in June 2011, many new features have been presented and will be added to the BagAssist 2011 version that will be available in October 2011 for all BagAssist customers. In addition to many improvements in the existing modules an

Sky Assist, the IT niche software company specialised in top class web-based solution for arrival services and lost & found departments, is pleased to announce that it will be attending the Ground Handling International, the 12th annual conference in Vienna, Austria. It is being he

Geneva/Zurich — Swissport International, the world's leading provider of ground services to the aviation sector, has marked a further e-services milestone with the introduction of a new self-service facility for reporting lost baggage. The new lost and found self-service kiosk enable

Brussels — New customers have been joining the Sky Assist customer community in 2009. Luxair Services and SBA, a French ground-handling company, have joined the BagAssist product community, with production cut-over planned for mid-August and mid-September respectively. Bot

SkyAssist, the Belgian provider of advanced niche IT software for the air transportation industry, has welcomed some new customers for its BagAssist product suite, among them Qantas Airways, Luxair or SBA. Qantas Airways, the leading airline company in Australia, has selected BagAssi

Brussels — Following the user conference successfully held in Brussels on 26-27 May 2009, many new features have been presented and added to the 2009 version of BagAssist. These include a complete new BagAdmin product easing BagAssist administration data management, a new kiosk ver

Malev Hungarian Airlines has decided to move to the PaxClaims application as a follow-up action for the airline that joined the OneWorld alliance since 1st April 2007. PaxClaims has been analysed as the best solution not only to cope with the normal airline complaint regulations, but also the sup

Our two new Business-to-Passenger modules, part of the baggage incident control for the passenger, are now ready to move further. The PaxAHL (self-declaration on a kiosk in airport arrival hall) is integrated with the IER918 kiosk. Swissport will start kiosk implementation (first in Zur

Air France and KLM, major European airlines part of the Air France / KLM holding, have jointly selected the BagAssist product to implement in the first phase of Paris Charles-de-Gaulle and Amsterdam Schipol airports. This strategic choice will support Air France and KLM to strengthen

The 4th BagAssist user conference will take place on April 24-25 2007 in Brussels. The user conference is the unique platform for all the BagAssist users to not only exchange their experience about the product but also to drive the product evolution direction according to their operatio

PaxClaims is a state-of-the-art web-based interactive passenger and baggage claims management system. Some of the key benefits of the PaxClaims system include: Monitor and reach key performance indicators of the customer relations process: being fast, correct, consistent and qualit

The third BagAssist user conference will take place on April 25-26, 2006 in Brussels. The user conference is the unique platform made for all the BagAssist users not only to exchange their experience about the product but also to drive the product evolution direction according to their

The B2C module called "light AHL" is now ready and has been tested by several customers. The final version will be presented to the BagAssist user community during the third user conference at the end of April. The first implementation will take place before the summer season by Swisspo

There is nothing more frustrating for a passenger than a baggage incident at the end of a journey. The way in which the incident is treated can easily undermine customer loyalty. Until now there was no alternative but to queue alongside other angry and frustrated passengers, eventually

Groundforce, born out of the Portuguese Handling company which has more than 60 years' experience in ground handling, has selected BagAssist and BagAutorush for use in Portuguese airports. This strategic choice will help support Groundforce build a professional and high quality service for its

With the BagAssist suite, it is now possible to simplify daily work, improve staff productivity and flexibility and, at the same time raise quality standards in the lost and found baggage and baggage control areas. For many years, Lost & Found and Baggage Control Departments

The second BagAssist User Conference took place in Brussels in April 2005, and was a great success with excellent participation and customer feedback. The Conference welcomed not only existing customers but also potential BagAssist customers that came to have an in-depth look at how the conferenc

SkyAssist, the Belgian provider of advanced software for the air transportation industry, has widened its customer base by welcoming ADP (Aéroports de Paris) into the BagAssist user community. BagAssist manages lost and found baggage processes as well as passenger enquiries and also helps in

Belgian Ground Services and Sky Assist collaboration is a long story, started in 1995 with the first application release of a product then called Estetic. The basic idea was (and is still today) on one hand to simplify and automate the baggage handling processes in order to gain time a

BagAssist, the web-based baggage-tracing product from Sky Assist, was implemented in its first web-based release in May 2002. Since then, our three Swiss stations, Zürich, Geneva and Basel, have been delighted by its ease of use and by how easy it is to learn with all the automated added function