Taking Flight with British Airways and Openskies

The Story

OpenSkies is a premium transatlantic airline that will offer guests superior service, competitive fares and exceptional value. OpenSkies will initially fly between Paris, Brussels and New York, with plans for routes from additional European cities including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Milan to New York. With no more than 82 passengers on each flight, OpenSkies offers a superior travel experience. The airline offers guests innovative features onboard, including lie-flat beds in business class, personal entertainment units with 50+ hours of programming, and fresh, healthy and creative meal service. Backed by British Airways, OpenSkies is the first-ever airline created as a result of the Open Skies agreement, which allows airlines to fly between any U.S. and E.U. destination.

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Role: Technical Lead, Java and Client-Side Developer
Client: British Airways
Year: 2008

• Java Servelets and JSP
• SOAP integration with reservations and payment systems
• Clustered, load-balanced HA environment
• Maven builds and continuous integration
• Alfresco integration for content management
• XML/XSLT for templating and rendering of published content
• Seamlessly designed Wordpress blog