Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

It is now very common to have passengers seating next to each other on a flight and paying a different airfare. The talk will demystify this counter-intuitive truth, explaining not only the reasons why this happens, but also describing some of the strategies airlines use to maximise their revenue. Wikipedia gives a few hints 'Airlines and other travel companies use differentiated pricing regularly, as they sell travel products and services simultaneously to different market segments. This is often done by assigning capacity to various booking classes, which sell for different prices and which may be linked to fare restrictions.' (wikipedia on Price_discrimination#Travel_industry). You might hope this presentation will help you save money on airfares ...so do we!

 
Christophe was appointed Director, Altea Departure Control on 1 September, 2009. Based in London and reporting to Francois Weissert, VP, Airline IT, Christophe is responsible for Altea Departure Control System development. He manages the departments which define and develop the Altea Departure Control product: Customer and Flight Management, along with their associated graphical user interfaces.

Previously, Christophe was Director, Core Middleware & Development Support from November 2007. His main responsibility was the development of the service-oriented infrastructure, enabling central applications to deliver business transactions on open and mainframe systems.

Christophe joined Amadeus in May 2001 and was appointed Unit Manager in January 2003 in charge of the Code Share & Access team. His team participated in the Qantas and British Airways cutovers to Altea Inventory, as their responsibility included the synchronisation of f Altea Reservation and Inventory.

Prior to joining Amadeus, he worked as a Software Development Engineer at a university in Montreal, Canada from 1998-99 where he developed a graphical application enabling the design of 3-Dimensional objects.

Christophe holds an Engineer's degree from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and then specialised in telecommunications in the Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris. A citizen of France, he also speaks English and German.