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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

■ NIGERIA: Canada's FLYGT signs AFIRS contract with an unnamed Nigerian operator.

Canada's FLYHT Aerospace Solutions has announced the signing of a contract with an undisclosed Nigerian airline for the installation of its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 220.

The contract requires FLYHT to install the AFIRS 220 on four Boeing 737 and will provide the airline with real-time flight data monitoring. The customer will benefit from all AFIRS 220 features including automated Out, Off, On and In times, airframe and engine exceedances, flight tracking, automated engine data collection for real time trending, fuel management and satellite voice communications.

FLYHT will provide equipment and services to the airline over a five year contract with automatic yearly renewals after the initial term.

Installations are anticipated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2013.