CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES GOES DIGITAL WITH AVAYA UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

Leading Chinese airline rolls out extensive suite of Avaya solutions across its entire network of offices and subsidiaries

Santa Clara, Calif., Sept. 6, 2018 – Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA) today announced that China Eastern Airlines has implemented a complete Avaya unified communication and collaboration solution to support its corporate headquarters and disperse operational locations. As one of the first Chinese companies with business communications fully based on an IP architecture, China Eastern Airlines has dramatically reduced costs, increased efficiency, and built a solid, flexible communications foundation for the future.

Headquartered in Shanghai with branch offices all over the world, the airline is one of China’s largest major aviation companies with a fleet of over 600 passenger and cargo aircraft and serving more than 100 million passengers globally. As part of its global growth strategy, China Eastern Airlines has adopted Avaya’s full-IP solution, providing it with a fully mobile, highly reliable, flexible and scalable cloud-based communications system.

The project connects all branch offices and subsidiaries. The inherent mobility of the solutions brings down costs and significantly improves employee productivity. Commenting on the importance of the airline’s digital transformation, Avaya’s Zhang Jing, Regional Sales Leader for Greater China said: “China Eastern Airlines is the first Chinese airline company using a full-IP architecture. This gives the company a major competitive edge, thanks to the adoption of a range of Avaya digital and unified communications solutions that are delivering a highly productive and mobile workforce; and solid foundations for its future business growth and development.”

Boasting a string of awards, China Eastern Airlines has been named as one of the top-25 most innovative companies in China and amongst the top-10 companies for social responsibility by Fortune magazine.

About China Eastern Airlines

Headquartered in Shanghai, China Eastern Air Holding Company (CEAH) is among China’s three major air transportation groups. As the core undertaking of CEAH, China Eastern Airlines Co., Ltd. was the first Chinese airline listing on New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets in 1997. Currently, it operates a fleet of over 600 aircrafts and serves over 100 million passengers globally, ranking 7th in the world. Through an air network, China Eastern Airlines now reaches 1,052 destinations in 177 countries.

Since 2009, China Eastern Airlines has been widely recognized by the society and won a string of awards. After being honored with the Five-Star Flight Safety Award by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), China Eastern Airlines was awarded the titles of “the 25 Most Innovative Company in China” and listed among Top 10 companies of Corporate Social Responsibility by Fortune. It has been recognized as one of the 30 most valuable Chinese brands by WPP for many years. Looking forward, China Eastern Airlines is committed to becoming an outstanding airline company that lives up to “staff devotion, customers’ loyalty, shareholder satisfaction and public trust”, continuously bringing wonderful experiences for global customers with “accurate, delicate and precise” services.

About Avaya

Avaya enables the mission critical, real-time communication applications of the world’s most important operations. As the global leader in delivering superior communications experiences, Avaya provides the most complete portfolio of software and services for contact center and unified communications— offered on premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid. Today’s digital world requires communications enablement, and no other company is better positioned to do this than Avaya. For more information, please visit www.avaya.com. 

Source: Avaya Newsroom 

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