The integrated onboard services and billing solution
 

Planebill is leader in SW applications for the InTransport Market. For the aeronautical sector JetBill and GroundBill are integrated Billing, Settlement, Revenue assurance and Statistical Data analysis products for airborne and ground installation respectively. JetBill at version 2.0 has been reengineered to run on multiple platforms, to support web interfaces for passenger and crew members and to optimize the on board order processes, minimizing the workload on crew.
 
 
JetBill
JetBill is an integrated billing system for Airlines.

With JetBill, passengers of commercial flights can be billed before they disembark the aircraft. JetBill supports the following services:

  • • Communications: Internet access, VoIP, E-mail;
  • • Business travelers support: FAX, VPN, on board printing;
  • • In Flight Entertainment: Movies, Music, Games, Gambling;
  • • E-Commerce: Duty Free, on board cafe', shopping;
  • • Billing: Payment by credit card and cash,miles handling, credit handling, bill printing;


JetBill can bill communication and other services based on volume, time, item, content. Accounting data for on board services are passed to GroundBill for settlement and statistical analysis.



 
GroundBill
GroundBill is the companion billing product for off board collection of accounting data, settlement and statistical analysis.

GroundBill can be used by Airlines or Aircraft Operators to enter contract data with their business partners. Advertisers, Wireless Internet Service Providers, Content Providers, Mobile Network Operators, retailers, are all playing a role in the air travel value chain.

GroundBill supports also different business models and includes relationships towards Advertisers sending messages or exposing themselves to JetBill passenger portal JetPortal.

GroundBill produces reports towards the business partners and reconciliation reports. Statistical analysis allows the airline, by sophisticated data mining to explore and discover statistics by business partner, flight, route or combinations thereof.

 
JetPortal & CrewPortal
JetPortal is an on board portal which allows passengers equipped with Laptops or PDA to perform registration, login, authentication, payment transactions with credit cards and service purchase without crew intervention.

JetPortal runs on most popular browsers on laptops and PDA on most popular Operating Systems and automatically detects and adapts to the passenger configuration.

CrewPortal is the on-board portal for crew members. Orders made by passenger with JetPortal are rated and filed in the on board database. Crew members can then display in real time the order status and perform their duties at convenient times.

CrewPortal can instruct JetBill to produce a sales report for on board services which can be used by ground personnel to optimize catering and loading operations.



 
Furthermore, PlaneBill has a number of applications that can be loaded on passengers or crew PDA, smarthphones, ranging from business to entertainment. With the introduction of PlaneRoaming, communication services can also be offered directly by the Airlines or Aircraft Operators.
JetBill and GroundBill together represent a complete solution for Airlines and Aircraft Operators willing to offer a wide variety of on board Services during flights.