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Air Canada Selects Navtech's Class'TM' Preferential Bidding System.


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Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener.
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:NAVH NAVH National Association for the Visually Handicapped ) awarded major contract with Air Canada.

Navtech, Inc. announced that Air Canada, Canada's largest airline, has signed a long-term agreement with Navtech to provide crew management solutions. The agreement includes the use of CLASS(TM), Navtech's preferential bidding system Preferential Bidding Systems
Preferential Bidding is a method of solving transportation workforce schedules consisting of specific flights and certain qualified crewmembers, or "Pairings", while allowing those crewmembers to request periodic work schedules using weighted
, by flight attendants at Air Canada and their regional airline, Air Canada Jazz Jazz Air LP (Air Canada Jazz) is a Canadian regional airline based in the Halifax Regional Municipality, at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, Nova Scotia. .

"This contract validates Navtech's preferential bidding system as a market leading product, and our ability to deliver superior solutions to major airlines," said David Strucke, Navtech's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Air Canada and Jazz are highly respected airlines and we are delighted to welcome them as Navtech customers."

Over 8,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Jazz will use CLASS(TM) to bid their scheduling preferences via the Internet. Air Canada together with its regional airline, Air Canada Jazz, operate an average of over 1300 flights per day serving more than 150 destinations across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET.  and around the world.

"Selecting the Navtech system aligns with Air Canada's objectives to both reduce costs, and to utilize proven technologies to e-enable our workforce," said Steve Smith, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience, Air Canada. This new preferential bidding system gives us a cost efficient web-based scheduling tool that will at the same time provide our flight crews with more control over their monthly schedules."

About Navtech:

Navtech provides integrated solutions for the planning and control of an airline's critical flight operations. Navtech's product suite includes market leading dispatch and crew planning systems. With over 100 customers spanning more than 25 countries, Navtech understands the importance of creating solid partnerships between the company and its customers. Navtech has approximately 100 employees with offices in the United States, Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This release may include forward-looking statements concerning the Company's intent, belief or current expectations with respect to, among other things, trends affecting its financial condition or results of operations and its business and growth strategies. Such forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions that may not be correct, are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, expressed or implied. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to the risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those set forth under "Other Considerations" in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis Management's discussion and analysis (MD&A)

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 or Plan of Operation" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended October 31, 2004.

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