ARINC Wins a Major Contract to Install New Passenger Systems at Six Airports in Colombia

Annapolis, Maryland—ARINC Incorporated today announced it has won a $14 million contract to provide advanced passenger technology for six airports in Colombia, South America. The locations include the country’s second largest airport, Jose Maria Cordoba International Airport, in Rionegro, Antioquia.

ARINC’s customer is Airplan, S.A., operator of the six airports in north-central Colombia. ARINC won the work in competitive bidding against three other airport technology companies.

“ARINC is grateful for the confidence Airplan S.A. has shown in us by the award of this contract,” stated Mike Picco, ARINC Airport Systems Vice President. “Our passenger technology is clearly the most robust solution they could have chosen, and by working with local partners we made our proposal very competitive.”

ARINC will install a range of technologies appropriate to the needs of each airport, which may include vMUSE^TM common-use check-in and departure systems, AirVUE^TM flight information display systems, SelfServ^TM common-use kiosks, and the AirDB^TM airport operational database system. Explosives detection equipment will also be installed on the baggage handling systems of one or more airports.

“ARINC complied well with all the requirements of our RFP, and they did a good job of explaining the quality and reliability of their system to us,” stated Sara Ramirez Restrepo, manager of Airplan. “We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship that will enhance the travel experience of millions of air passengers in Colombia.”

ARINC will begin the airport installations later this year and continue working into 2011. Under the contract, ARINC and its partners will also provide IT maintenance support for the new airport systems until 2017.

Airports in Colombia that will receive the new ARINC technology are: Jose Maria Cordoba International Airport in Rionegro, and Olaya Herrera in Medellin, plus Los Garzones Airport in Monteria, Las Brujas Airport in Corozal, Antonio Roldan Betancur Airport in Carepa, and El Caraño Airport in Quibdo.

ARINC Airport Systems is a world leader in common-use passenger technology. Its MUSE^® family of passenger systems is found at more than 125 airports worldwide, and used by 325 airlines carrying more than 350 million passengers a year.

ARINC Incorporated, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, provides communications, engineering and integration solutions for commercial, defense and government customers worldwide. Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland with regional headquarters in London and Singapore, ARINC is ISO 9001:2008 certified.

Release: 10-022

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