Airline Cost Control Based on E-commerce

Airline´s operating situation is not good nowadays. At this situation, cost control is very important to airline. It is a new idea and method for airline to using computer and network oriented information technology to cost control. Firstly, this article analyses the airline´s cost composition, then describes how to use e-commerce to control cost of airline in air material cost, sales expenses, financial expenses, administrative expenses and so on. Finally, based on service-oriented architecture technology, this article also describes how to integrate information resources within and outside the airline to build air e-commerce platform, which not only helps airline cost control, but also helps airline innovative business model to improve the competitiveness of enterprise.