You won't believe this one. It says that since SITA, a voice and data systems company is predicting self 99% compliance, then so is the entire aircraft industry. Tell that to Denver and D/FW airports. They no longer have anything to worry about. Go home, SITA is compliant, so are we. My 2 year old at home has more intelligence than that. If idiots like SITA are working for the airline industry as a whole, it definitely is in trouble.

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Interview: Air Industry Seen Beating Millennium Bug 11/20/98 Author: Nick Edwards

SINGAPORE, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The risk of critical aircraft and air traffic control systems failing because of the millennium bug is almost zero, the group that runs communications networks for the world's airlines and airport authorities said on Friday.

"We're talking about being 99 percent compliant,'' John Watson, director-general of air transport industry telecommunications provider SITA told Reuters.

Geneva-based SITA operates a voice and data services network which supports 650 airlines and related operations including airport authorities and aerospace manufacturers in 185 countries around the world.

It transmits more than 100 trillion bits of information -- more than 150 billion printed pages -- each month.

These transmissions include critical in-flight data about engineering and operational functions of aircraft and are the vital lines of communication supporting air traffic control.

"Less than one percent of our total traffic is at risk,'' said Watson. "There are parts of the world where the risk is almost zero.'' end clip

-- James Chancellor (publicworks1@bluebonnet.net), November 20, 1998

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"There are parts of the world where the risk is almost zero."

Where's that? Antarctica?

-- Buddy (DC) (buddy@bellatlantic.net), November 20, 1998.

Reuters is a worthless excuse for a "news" service. How such a mediocre company can survive and thrive is an amazing lesson in market complacency.

-- PNG (png@gol.com), November 20, 1998.

Tell me which flights each day are the 1% that will crash, then I'll book a ticket.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 20, 1998.