Air Pacific moves into the fast lane with FASTRAC

FASTRAC has been designed specifically to meet the needs of small and medium-sized airlines, and is being offered as a stand-alone passenger or cargo revenue accounting solution, or as an integrated system offering full functionality.

Air Pacific expects the implementation to bring significant business benefits, supporting its ambitious growth plans. Revenues will be realised quickly and accurately, accounting costs will be reduced, productivity will be maximised and commercial confidence enhanced.

Air Pacific, has been flying for more than 50 years, and today has scheduled flights to and from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Honolulu and mainland USA.

Manoa Kamikamica, its GM Finance, says: "FASTRAC will allow us to keep a tight rein on revenue accounting, which is vital to boosting our cash flow and driving our growth plans to maintain Air Pacific as the dominant regional player.

"Mercator stands head and shoulders above its rivals thanks to its consultants' extensive knowledge of revenue accounting and of the airline business. Mercator's close ties with Emirates, and its years of experience in meeting all their demanding IT needs successfully, is another key advantage."

FASTRAC is a comprehensive revenue accounting solution from Mercator's industry-leading RAPID family of products. Sales, uplifts, proration and interline billing functionality provide swift revenue determination, accurate invoicing and timely information which are vital to corporate decision making today.

Hugh Pride, Director IT at Mercator, said: "Combining the functionality of FASTRAC Passenger and FASTRAC Cargo into one seamlessly integrated package will give Air Pacific unrivalled functionality and benefits for passenger and cargo revenue accounting -- the best of both worlds.

"FASTRAC can be implemented really quickly, and will allow Air Pacific to automate its revenue accounting, speed up cash flow, cut costs, prevent fraud, obtain timely reports for decision-making and improve administration -- all vital to competing effectively in commercial aviation today."