CHINA'S AIRLINES are beginning to make substantial investments in infrastructure to match their rapidly growing fleets. China Southern Airlines has awarded AMR's Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) a contract to develop an operations control centre, while China Eastern has ordered Airbus A300-600R training equipment from Thomson Training & Simulation.
China Eastern has ordered a full-flight simulator and flight-training device for installation in mid-1997 in its new training centre in Pudong, close to the site for Shanghai's new international airport. The A300 device will be equipped with a FlightSafety International Vital ChromaView visual system. China Eastern McDonnell Douglas MD-82 simulator, supplied in 1987, will be upgraded with a ChromaView visual.
China Southern plans to build its new airline-operations control centre in Guangzhou. SDT will provide the client/server computer hardware and software, American Airlines will train China Southern employees to operate the centre, and Sabre Computer Services will assist in development of air-to-ground communications systems. The centre will automate flight dispatch, flight monitoring, load planning and crew scheduling.
Source: Flight International
