India Confident Aviation Sector Ready For Year 2000

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India Confident Aviation Sector Ready For Year 2000

Updated 11:41 AM ET September 10, 1999

By Biman Mukherji

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's aviation regulator said Friday he was confident the sector would be prepared for the Year 2000 (Y2K) bug and said there would be normal routing over Indian airspace as the new year dawned.

"We are fully confident there will be no problem," director-general of civil aviation H.S. Khola told a Confederation of Indian Industry conference.

Asked about reports of international airlines planning alternate routing to avoid India when crossing to Europe from other parts of Asia, Khola said: "Normal routes will be maintained (over India)."

The Y2K bug refers to a problem that might occur in computers which denote years in their date-fields only by their last two digits. Its occurrence could mean the loss of valuable data and hurt key operations when the year 1999 changes to 2000.

Vendor certification and in-house testing on the aviation sector's most vital communication, navigation and landing systems was already complete and was being examined by external auditors, Khola said.

"On September 15, we have called a meeting of all the foreign and domestic airlines (on Y2K). If any of them says some action is needed, then we are prepared to take it," he said.

Khola said Indian civil aviation authorities were aware that several international flights operated through Indian airspace and any Y2K problem in India could disrupt their operations.

Primary radars installed at all Indian airports would not face Y2K problems, while compliance work, expected to be completed this month, was still going on at six secondary radars at Trivandrum, Madras, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Guwahati, Khola said.

Facilitation systems were prepared for Y2K, except in check-in and cargo management areas, which were expected to be ready by the end of September, he said. Aviation meteorological services, security systems and fuel services were Y2K compliant.

Khola said standby systems were being put in place on all the critical areas which might be affected by the Y2K bug. A contingency Y2K plan had also been drawn up.

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