British Airways Regional Moves Mercury's Magellan Software to Full Operational Status.

Business Editors

VANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000

British Airways Regional's in-flight crew scheduling has now been completely replaced by Mercury's (OTCBB:MYSYF)(CDNX:MRY.) software suite, including Magellan, NOVA, and NOVA Online.

Mercury's software solutions now enables British Airways Regional to automatically operate in a real-time problem solving environment for the first time by incorporating crew scheduling, government regulations, union requirements, training requirements, payroll, crew hotel bookings, and the flight crew's own personal schedule requests via the Internet.

Mercury and British Airways Regional have been engaged in an exhaustive proving phase where Magellan has been tested thoroughly in parallel mode against the previous scheduling system. With testing successfully completed, all live interfaces have been transferred to the Magellan Day-Of-Operations scheduling system.

Ashley Cowen, Head of Business Operations and Planning for British Airways Regional said "We are extremely pleased that the introduction of Magellan has been so successful for us, especially in an era when others have attempted similar projects and failed. Working with Mercury has been both a success and a pleasure."

"British Airways Regional's rapid acceptance of our Magellan system is a clear validation of the software's potential and performance during the testing phase, representing the most important technical milestone Mercury has achieved to date," said Graham Whitmarsh, President & CEO of Mercury. "Magellan is the result of some very brilliant work by the Company's development team and we are now ready to deliver it to airlines around the world with the technical and sales support of our new partners; IBM and SITA." (SITA is the world's largest provider of telecommunications and information solutions to the airline industry).

Mercury Scheduling Systems Inc. is a software development company that licenses some of the most innovative airline operations software in the world. With a broad range of software products, Mercury is positioned to meet the needs of all sizes of airlines. The company has an established client base that includes leading companies such as British Airways Regional, DHL Airways, Aloha Airlines, Maersk Air, Canada 3000, Legend Airlines and Ansett Australia. Mercury is one of 30 select companies that make up the CDNX Technology Index.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, Graham Whitmarsh, President & CEO

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