Boeing Scaling Back its Air Traffic Management Business

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 01:22:31 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in Message-Id: :


Does this mean that Boeing will reduce its pressure on Congress to
privatize ATC?


BOEING said that it is scaling back its investment in its air
traffic management business and named Kevin Brown as the new
head, beginning April 1. Brown succeeds John Hayhurst, who is
retiring. Boeing also said the business will become part of
Phantom Works, Boeing's research and development unit. Brown,
whose new title will be VP, air traffic management, will report
to Robert Krieger, president of Phantom Works. "Boeing will
continue to pursue advances in air traffic management that will
enhance efficiency, capacity and security," said Boeing
President and Chief Executive Harry Stonecipher. "However, in
an effort to be more efficient, we are scaling down our
investment and making an organizational change to meet current
demand.
(Reuters 09:26 AM ET 03/04/2004)

Mo

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It looks like Boeing is not only scaling back its ATC division, it's
actually dissolving its Air Traffic Management division.



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AVflash Volume 10, Number 11a -- March 8, 2004

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BOEING DISSOLVES ATC DIVISION
Boeing is scaling back its bid to revolutionize the world's air
traffic control system because the existing setup seems to be
working just fine ... for now. The Chicago-based firm announced
Thursday that it was dissolving its Air Traffic Management
division, likely because it didn't have any customers for the
satellite-based, computer data link-dependent system. The air
traffic division was hatched in the halcyon days of 2000 when
airline traffic was growing so fast that the control system seemed
on the verge of collapse in some areas. Since 9/11, interest has
evaporated in the system as more conventional technological
solutions, and the outright intervention by government to reduce
congestion by decree, as happened in Chicago two months ago with
the forced reduction of flights to O'Hare, seem to be favored.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#186854