Northern Canadian airline First Air has opted for myIDTravel, the integrated ID travel management solution for staff travel from Lufthansa Systems. With myIDTravel, First Air can introduce self-service e-ticketing for flights of staff members on First Air and other airlines. This enables the airline to streamline their staff travel processes and to comply with the industry mandate of replacing paper ID tickets by March 2012.

myIDTravel is an integrated solution for the efficient management of business and private ID travel. Through e-ticketing, new self-service functions and a high level of automation, airlines can optimize their ID travel management and reduce costs. myIDTravel eliminates the need for paper tickets and enables airlines to replace them with electronic ID tickets for their own and even for interline flights. Furthermore, myIDTravel offers advantages for airlines by streamlining processes – from maintaining ID agreements and eligibility rules to revenue accounting and interline settlement. Airline employees also benefit greatly from using myIDTravel because they can conveniently purchase, change, issue and refund electronic tickets for their trips.

First Air serves the cargo and travel needs of northern Canadian communities. Its scheduled service carries approximately 225,000 passengers and over 22 million kilograms of freight and mail each year over its comprehensive route system, which connects 30 northern Canadian communities with major centres Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton. First Air’s fleet consist of 20 jet and turboprop aircraft, many of them equipped for gravel and ice airfields, including the country’s only two civilian Lockheed Hercules.