TAAG Angola Getting a Portfolio of ARINC Flight Services

TAAG Angola Airlines has started using a suite of ARINC datalink and flight support services that includes graphical weather delivery and message management for its ground-based operational personnel.

The five-year contract gives the national airline of Angola the use of ARINC's GLOBALink VHF, satellite and HF (high frequency) datalink communications throughout its operational network. TAAG also signed for ARINC's GTWS (graphic/text weather service) to directly uplink that information to its flight crews, and OpCenter message management service, which enables TAAG's dispatchers to send, receive, and manage datalink messages, while translating datalink code into readable text, thus eliminating the need to develop proprietary server-based systems to handle these functions.

OpCenter includes a secure email service hosted by ARINC to give crews reliable ground communications with global access to important operational messages from any Internet connection. In addition it can host and deliver PDCs (pre-departure clearances) from air traffic control to requesting aircraft cockpits via datalink.  04-22-2007.

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