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Qatar Airways pioneers minute-by-minute flight tracking solution
September 30th 2016
Qatar Airways will be the first carrier to adopt a minute-by-minute aircraft tracking standard in 2018, three years ahead of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSS) mandate. Read More »
The airline has confirmed it will use the Aireon-FlightAware GlobalBeacon tracking solution, a spaced-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology feeding into FlightAware’s system. It includes information on a flight’s origin, destination, flight plan route, position and estimated time of arrival.
Qatar Airways Group CEO, Akbar Al Baker, said: “GlobalBeacon will seamlessly integrate with our existing ICAO 2018 compliant flight watch technology (Total Operations System), and further enhance our fleet management by providing updates every minute.”
McLean, Virginia based Aireon CEO, Don Thoma, added “no new avionics will be required” on Qatar’s fleet of 190 aircraft to enable GlobalBeacon.
