New integrated AMAN/CFM helps New Zealand halve Inflight delays
New integrated AMAN/CFM helps New Zealand halve Inflight delays New Zealand recorded its lowest level of Inflight delays in the quarter covering May, June and July 2014, down 52% on the same period from the previous two years. The country’s Air navigation services provider (ANSP), Airways New Zealand, said deployment of an integrated Air traffic flow and arrival management system was largely responsible for the lowest Inflight delay minutes ever recorded across New Zealand’s four largest Airports Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown. At Auckland Airport, the improved results were a direct outcome of integrating Barco’s OSYRIS Arrival Manager (AMAN) tool into Airways’ Collaborative Flow Manager (CFM) system in April 2013, for arrivals, according to Airways COO Pauline Lamb. She said the Inflight delay reductions were evidence that the system was delivering real savings to our Airlines, both financial and environmental, without impacting on safety or serv...