the conflicting statements made over the past two days on the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), Putrajaya today mantained its stand that the ACARS had been disabled just ...

Malaysian authorities have rekindled confusion over the sequence of events on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, with apparently differing accounts of the status of the ACARS ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A communications system in the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner could have been switched off before or after the last verbal contact with the flight deck, which likely came ...

Wizz Air, a Budapest, Hungary-based operator of more than 100 Airbus A320s, has become Europe’s first airline to start using SITAONAIR’s aircraft communication, addressing and reporting system (ACARS) ...

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Russian airlines are preparing to restore access to the digital datalink Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). The system is used to transmit short text messages between ...

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Kuwait Airways is ready to begin uplinking and downlinking non-critical non-air traffic control (ATC) Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) messages over internet protocol ...

Not having to wait on NextGen implementation to move forward is a huge advantage, and removes an excuse that airlines have for not implementing live flight tracking. Two and a half years before MH370 ...