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NAVAERO ANNOUNCES EFB CONTRACT WITH GOL FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROGRAM

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

November 22, 2009

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CHICAGO IL USA November 20, 2009 — navAero announced today that GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. the largest low cost airline and low fare airline in Latin America, has  awarded a contract to navAero for the deployment of the t Bag™C22 EFB system for GOL’s fleet of B737NGs.

The EFB contract is a part of GOL’s implementation of an advanced program for a fleet-wide technology system of ACARS-through-Iridium reporting and management of their messages. The deployment of this system will bring the airline increased reliability and operations safety, greater control over performance of the aircraft and reducing and controlling costs through the reduction of aircraft weight and greater agility in the daily management of the airline. Additionally, the navAero EFB hardware will allow the airline to use the EFBs for data storage of currently used paper manuals that are carried on all flights. Less weight coupled with the utilization of sophisticated software applications hosted on the EFBs will allow Gol to have better tools to ensure maximum operational efficiency and better control costs.

“This type of communications platform anticipates future trends for airspace management”, states Captain Fernando Rockert de Magalhaes, Technical Vice President of GOL. “It will become increasingly common for communications between cockpit, flight coordination in airlines and air traffic controllers to be made by a number of text messages, and our implementation of this EFB and ACARS-through-Iridium will bring communications and technical advantages to the safety and cost management for our operations.”

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navAero will be implementing the deployment of its EFB hardware in collaboration with technology solutions for the ACARS-though-Iridium being provided by Avionica. The integrated technology/communications solutions will begin deployment in early 2010.

“This engagement with GOL represents an important milestone for navAero as we continue to expand our offerings to customers that interlink our EFB with technology systems from our strategic teaming partner, Avionica, to provide our airlines with integrated solutions that meet their business objectives.” said Ken Crowhurst, Executive Vice President, navAero, Inc.

“This bundled architecture of advanced EFB hardware and communications solutions will help increase the ability of commercial of airlines to realize maximum efficiency on the flight deck. We are looking forward to the implementation of this program and sharing this innovative technology with our current and future customers.”

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