Muscat and Salalah airports gain surface movement systems
Muscat International and Salalah International airports are both to get Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) in a deal with Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems.
Spanish IT firm Indra Sistemas awarded the contract, which will see Northrop Grumman supply and install its Nova 9000 A-SMGCS, including multi-lateration systems being supplied by teammate ERA.
Indra Sistemas will supply the surface movement radars, which will be integrated into the Nova 9000 A-SMGCS.
Muscat International Airport is currently undergoing expansion in order to cope with increased traffic.
Between 2000 and 2010, movement at the airport nearly doubled from 36,082 to 67,160 flights and this is expected to continue to grow over the next decade. This is primarily due in large part to a rapidly growing hub airlines.
Similar to Muscat Airport, Salalah Airport, the nation’s second busiest airport, has also seen tremendous growth, going from serving 182,000 passengers in 2000 to 455,000 in 2010 and, like Muscat, expects large future growth.
The contract forms part of the nationwide air traffic management modernisation and upgrade programme for the Directorate General of Meteorology and Air Navigation Services in Oman and is expected to be completed in April 2015.
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