Q3 Technologies developed an Smart Phone solution for Turkish Airline company to help their customers with airline reservations and flight status update.

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Company Profile

Client is an airline company based in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a low-fare Turkish airline, which operates domestic scheduled passenger services and regular charter flights to Europe, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates.

Business Situation

 

Client needed an application for iPhone and Blackberry that encapsulates all the required functionality for making flight reservations. The main features required in the application were:

• View all the flights available based on source and destination airport
• Select the desired flight and make reservations
• Make the payment online
• Select seats
• Live updates on flight status
• Perform check-in online

 

Challenges

IPhone and Blackberry SDK are loaded with native controls but those controls didn't suit our client's GUI. Therefore, a number of controls were customized by Q3 technologies for providing the desired look, feel and functionality of the application.

Solution

 

iPhone:

iPhone Application was developed on Mac OS using XCode with 3.0 version of SDK. Client had provided WSDL for the Web service. gSoap was used for creating Client and Stubs. These methods of stubs were used from Objective C code from Mac OS. In order to meet with the client's requirement, a number of controls were customized for the GUI and its native look was modified to match up with the required design for online check-in as shown below::

 

 

Blackberry:

A number of customized controls were developed for the Blackberry Application. JDK 1.6 and net rim API 4.7 were used for the Blackberry application. Stubs were created with help of java wireless kit for the Webservice.

Technology Used

iPhone:

• IPhone SDK 3.0
• Objective C
• Soap

Blackberry

• JDK 1.6
• Net RIM API 4.7
• Java wireless kit

Benefits

Benefits of availability of Airline Reservation and Flight Status over iPhone and Blackberry are:

• Flight and reservation status is easily available
• Check in can be performed as per convenience
• Ease of seat selection
• Reduced cost
• Increased Efficiency
• No restriction of time or location