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Boston Logan International Airport Joins Growing Group of Airports Deploying PASSUR OPSnet™ Collaborative Decision Making Software First to Use Innovative Notams Communications Capability
Greenwich, CT, December 18, 2006 — Megadata Corporation (OTC: MDTA) announced today that Boston Logan International Airport has deployed the PASSUR® OPSnet™ system, which provides best-of-breed protocols for the efficient and smooth management of an airport during irregular events such as snow and ice, lightning, and construction – as well as daily operational management. This ground breaking Web portal is designed for instant communication, information sharing, coordinated decision making, and resource management online for all airport users.
“This new technology moves us toward a more efficient airport during all weather conditions,” said Ed Freni, Acting Director of Aviation for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), which runs Boston Logan International Airport. “It is a ground breaking way for us to manage high-demand resources, communicate conditions in a dynamic operational environment, and use technology to overcome barriers to instant information sharing with our key partners.”
“Once again Boston Logan Airport is an innovator,” said Jim Barry, President and CEO of Megadata, which owns PASSUR. “Building on the great work performed by their counterparts in New York and Washington, Boston Logan asked our team to modify OPSnet to create a path-breaking way of communicating airfield conditions to the entire aviation community – reducing the workload previously performed and ensuring instant communication of vital airport conditions. It’s an exciting step forward – one which any airport could use.”
Boston Logan is now using OPSnet to generate automated emails of field condition report updates to Logan users, as well as automated prints of the FCR at FAA flight services.
PASSUR OPSnet is a secure web portal which uses dynamic HTML and an advanced PASSUR information database to create instant communication and information sharing with all key players of the airport community in real time, in a secure environment, resulting in coordinated decision making, effective use of resources, and consistent public information – from any Internet-connected PC. It combines automated updates from the PASSUR radar-based database, with local updates from all key users of the airport facility. It includes, among other things, detailed field condition report templates, airline slot self-management tools, weather, and PASSUR automated flight status information. OPSNet has a proven return on investment, based on studies by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
OPSnet is one part of the PASSUR CDM suite, which also includes PASSUR Portal™, providing an instant, live snapshot of vital operational information on a “web dashboard” of multiple information sets derived from the one-of-a-kind PASSUR database, and tools for instant information sharing and communication among all users. Boston Logan also uses PASSUR Portal, PASSUR Pulse™ for proactive landing fee management, and PASSUR visual flight tracking and airspace status tools in their operations and noise office.
About Megadata
Megadata owns and operates PASSUR, a national network of multiple, live flight information sources feeding a single, integrated database known for independent, complete, timely, and accurate information and solutions for the aviation industry. It includes the unique network of PASSUR radar installations in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The company’s principal business is the delivery of data, application software, and web-delivered collaborative decision tools to the aviation industry and organizations that serve, or are served, by the aviation industry. Megadata distributes its products through a direct sales force, and through premier aviation decision-support technology firms.
The forward-looking statements in this news release relating to management’s expectations and beliefs are based on preliminary information and management assumptions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a wide range of risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ in material respects, including those related to customer needs, budgetary constraints, competitive pressures, the success of airline trials, the profitable use of the Company’s owned PASSURs located at major airports, the Company’s maintenance of above average quality of its product and services, as well as potential regulatory changes. Further information regarding factors that could affect the Company’s results is contained in the Company’s SEC filings, including the October 31, 2005 Form 10-K and July 31, 2006 Form 10-Q.
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