GroupEAD and Airways NZ to set up new global aeronautical information company
14 Oct 2013
GroupEAD, the European aeronautical information management (AIM) expert, and Airways New Zealand have today announced an agreement to form GroupEAD Asia-Pacific Ltd.
The company will be a joint venture business delivering next-generation AIM services to the Asia Pacific region. The new business will be headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, and is expected to formally commence operations early in 2014.
In an important development for the GroupEAD global brand, the new GroupEAD Asia-Pacific business will include Airways NZ’s AIM staff, as well as procedure design services currently provided within New Zealand and to many countries in the Pacific region.
New services will be developed which leverage the capabilities of both joint venture organisations.
At the signing of the agreement in Frankfurt Heinz-Michael Kraft, CEO of GroupEAD said “12 years after the establishment of GroupEAD, and following 10 years of successful operation of the European Aeronautical Database, this partnership with Airways New Zealand represents an important next step for GroupEAD and the opportunity to take GroupEAD’s product and services to a wider audience in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region.”
Ed Sims, CEO of Airways New Zealand, said “Airways has a long and proud tradition of delivering services to many parts of the world and we are delighted to be teamed with GroupEAD to create a global brand with a consistent, high quality service offering. As countries work through the transformation towards System Wide Information Management (SWIM), we intend GroupEAD Asia- Pacific to be ready and able to assist wherever required.”
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About GroupEAD
As a core business, GroupEAD, is in charge of running the operations and providing the training of the European AIS Database (EAD) on behalf of EUROCONTROL.
Based on this experience, GroupEAD provides a wide range of services to Air Navigation Service Providers and related business companies. These services are provided worldwide and classified in three main areas: training, consultancy and aviation data services.
With a great record and experience, GroupEAD is playing an active role in the current transformation process from AIS to AIM and the implementation of SWIM concepts.
For more information about GroupEAD, visit www.groupead.com
About Airways New Zealand
Airways is a world-leading commercial Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and operates in New Zealand as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).
The organization looks after key aviation infrastructure around New Zealand and manages the more than 1 million traffic movements per year into and around New Zealand’s 30 million sq km of airspace seven percent of the world’s total.
Airways provides air traffic control and engineering training, and has delivered air traffic management, Flightyield revenue management solutions, navigation services and consultancy in more than 65 countries.
For more information about Airways, visit www.airways.co.nz
For more information please contact:
Russell Hulstrom
General Manager Airways Global Services
Ph: +64 (27) 5111125
communications@airways.co.nz