Irish base for high-tech aviation firm

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Aviation techology giant SITA will kick off a new company based in Dublin called Aviareto within months that will slash ''several billion'' off the cost of financing air transport worldwide.

At the same time SITA, which acquired Irish company Eland Technologies in 2003, is part of a consortium of companies - including Dermot Desmond's biometric company, Daon is now battling to pick up giant security contacts in the United States.

The Consortium is working on the Registered Travel Program in the US that is currently at the pilot stage of using people's unique personal traits to beef up security for flight check-ins.

SITA senior vice-president Richard Stokes said yesterday his company was also gearing up to offer Irish airlines and airline users new technology that will allow them check in by mobile phone. Part of this technology is being developed in Ireland, where the company employs around 200 staff in Dublin and Donegal.

At a meeting recent conference at, which over 800 international delegates attended at a Dublin Hotel. Aviareto was set up as an international registry for commercial airlines, private jets and helicopters he said.

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