Travel Safety Update - Asia / Pacific.7/7/2008 Airservices Australia Airservices Australia is an Australian Government agency, responsible for providing safe and environmentally sound air traffic control management and related airside services to the aviation industry (ie: air traffic control, airways navigation and communication facilities, and Pilots are being forced to guide planes in NSW NSW New South Wales Noun 1. NSW - the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare Naval Special Warfare this evening because of a shortage of air traffic controllers. The shortage means an area north-west of Canberra, normally covered by controllers in Melbourne, is unmanned. A spokeswoman for Airservices Australia, the government body in charge of air traffic control management, said the shortage was affecting flights between Sydney and Melbourne, and Canberra and Sydney. The area would be unmanned between 8pm and 10pm (AEST AEST Australian Eastern Standard (time) AEST Ada Embedded Systems Testbed AEST Air Elevator Support Trailer AEST Advanced EHF System Test AEST Advanced EHF Satellite Test ). The Airservices Australia spokeswoman said airlines had been advised of the problem earlier today, and it was up to them whether they continued with their flights, diverted di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. them away from the affected area, or delayed them. Pilots could guide their own planes through the air space without the air traffic controllers, she said. 7/3/2008 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For Advertising and Marketing: advert@AirGuideOnline.com For Custom Content: content@AirGuideOnline.com Copyright [c] 2008 Pyramid pyramid, structure pyramid. The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face the points of the Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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