A TEAM LED BY Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems is to conduct a feasibility study for the proposed joint Israeli-Jordanian international airport serving Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel.
The Jordan civil-aviation authority has awarded the six-month US-funded study partly in a bid to resolve the problem of operating a series of terminals to be built on the two countries' borders while retaining a high level of security.
The idea is to connect the Jordanian runway to a passenger terminal to be built on the border, 9km (5 miles) north of Eilat Airport.
The Israeli-Jordanian air agreement has not yet been signed, as the countries have to agree on the security issues involved in operating scheduled flights between the capitals, Tel Aviv and Amman.
Source: Flight International
