The "Airports of Regions" holding announced the complete transition of its air hubs to the domestic LDCS passenger dispatch management and control system from ORS. It will operate in Yekaterinburg, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Rostov-on-Don, Novy Urengoy, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Blagoveshchensk, Orenburg and Tobolsk.
LDCS can work not only with domestic, but also with international flights, as it complies with IATA resolutions and rules. The ORS product is easily integrated with both airport operations management (AODB) and baggage sorting (BRS) systems, as well as with the ARCute common access platform, which was independently developed by Airports of Regions.
Before ORS, "Airports of Regions" worked with the domestic "Sirena-Travel" after the departure of foreign information systems from Russia began in 2022. The same one that, together with the "Rostec" subsidiary "RT-Transcom", developed another domestic air ticket booking system "Leonardo". "Leonardo" is now used by more than fifty Russian airlines, as well as airlines from Belarus, Venezuela, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan. However, Sirena-Travel cooperated with Airports of Regions with another product - the multilingual passenger and baggage registration system Astra.
Astra is similar in functionality to LDCS and also complies with IATA resolutions and rules. The reasons why Airports of Regions preferred another software manufacturer are not disclosed.
The replacement of one domestic solution with another shows the emergence of competition in the vacated software market for civil aviation. According to Alexander Sizintsev, General Director of ORS, in 2023, it amounts to 15-20 billion rubles per year. Of these, the localized budget in the air ticket distribution segment is 5-8 billion rubles per year. In the segment of data placement in inventory systems, 2-3 billion rubles per year are circulating, and in the segment of acquisition and use of licensed solutions - up to 9-11 billion rubles per year.