Airport News - North America.Jun 18, 2007 ARINC ARINC Aeronautical Radio, Inc. ARINC Aircraft Radio Incorporated ARINC Aeronautical Research Incorporated said US FAA awarded it a three-year contract to continue providing the VHF (Very High Frequency) The range of electromagnetic frequencies from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Extended Range Network that supports ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered communications in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . Jun 12, 2007 The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is to temporarily relax new rules requiring passports for US citizens flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean because of a huge passport application backlog. The decision, announced a day after a controversial bill to revamp immigration laws immigration laws npl → leyes fpl de inmigración immigration laws npl → lois fpl sur l'immigration immigration laws npl and tighten border security stalled in Congress, will make it easier for thousands of Americans to keep their summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. plans but may expose the White House to criticism that it undermines border security. Until September, US citizens going to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean may travel with government-issued identification and official State Department proof showing they have applied for a passport. Jun 11, 2007 Canada loosened its requirements for passports applications on Friday in an effort to cut a backlog triggered by Washington's strict new rules for cross-border travel into the United States. "The volume (of applications) has been substantially increased, and we had to respond to that," Foreign Minister Peter MacKay told reporters in a passport office. Canada will no longer require professionals, like mayors or doctors, to vouch for the identity of applicants, serving as a guarantor. Any passport holder can now vouch for anybody else. And Ottawa will make it simpler to renew passports, no longer requiring proof of citizenship once again or another declaration from a guarantor. Jun 11, 2007 Ultra Electronics Airport Systems will supply and install a range of its latest airport information systems at Minneapolis-St. Paul, including UltraCuse, UltraSeats, UltraSelfService, UltraFIDS, UltraResource (resource allocation resource allocation Managed care The constellation of activities and decisions which form the basis for prioritizing health care needs ) and UltraDB (airport operational database). Jun 11, 2007 ARINC certified the compact IER IER Institut d'Economie Rurale IER Institute for Economic Research (Ljubljana, Slovenia) IER Institute for Employment Research IER Ion-Exchange Resin (building material) IER Initial Environmental Review 918 CUSS check-in kiosk for operation with ARINC's enhanced SelfServ CUSS kiosk platform. Jun 11, 2007 Chicago O'Hare International Continental Properties Brings aloft to O'Hare Airport Continental Properties Co. Inc. is developing a $35 million aloft Chicago O'Hare hotel on the Chicago O'Hare site. Jun 11, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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