OneSKY Air Traffic Control system 10 years late

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OneSKY bill explodes to $4.1bn, will now run 10 years late

Air Traffic Control system replacement grounded by complexity.

www.itnews.com.au

OneSKY bill explodes to $4.1bn, will now run 10 years late.

Air Traffic Control system replacement grounded by complexity.

Beleaguered efforts to modernise and unite Australia’s civilian and defence air traffic control systems will run a whopping ten years late and cost more than double their original estimate because original offers from suppliers lapsed due to bureaucratic delays.

That's quite a delay, wonder if it will have any impact on flight ops. Possibly not based on current growth.

 

[Mr Pumblechook]

There's still capacity in the existing system so I doubt we'll see any effect.

The article did give me a good laugh, though:

"However the move was resisted by civil aviation controllers who were lined up for redundancies as two disparate systems supposedly became one."

No part of that sentence is correct.