Press Release

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September 25, 2007

With delays the bane of all air travelers, Air Routing International's ("ARI") Domestic Flight Watch™ Program ("DFW"), celebrating its second year of service, is designed to reduce ATC delays and reroutes experienced by corporate and charter operators. "This program has been very well received by the business and charter aviation community", according to Air Routing Vice President Tim Maystrik.

The DFW Program has succeeded in boosting the domestic air operations efficiency and time management of ARI's clients, Maystrik said. The service incorporates a partnership between ARI meteorologists and flight planners, the NBAA General Aviation Desk (GA Desk) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

"Our client aircraft are now treated by the FAA the same way the FAA treats the airlines when it comes to issuing delays and reroutes," Maystrik said. "Clients are finding that being informed in advance about potential delays is helping them make effective operational decisions. Everything down-line from ground transportation to important meetings as well as unnecessary stress on passengers are affected with actual or potential delays. In addition, our ability to recommend alternate routings or feeder airports has

at the very least minimized our client's delays and in many cases has shown a negligible affect on their schedule for the day."

Maystrik pointed out that one reduced delay of even half an hour might be worth tens of thousands of dollars to a corporation. "The DFW program has been favorably received and we have had quite a few success stories."

The DFW Program is in effect for all international trips planned, filed and executed by ARI.

For those operators who file their own domestic flight plans and desire DFW coverage, they can subscribe to the DFW program and simply submit their domestic schedules via phone, fax, email, ARI Flight Manager™ or selected scheduling software programs.

How does the DFW system work?

Air Routing submits flight schedules to the FAA and GA Desk to assist with their airspace planning initiatives. Throughout the day the ARI staff continually monitors National Air Space (NAS). Information on possible schedule delays is received and evaluated by ARI staff for possible options. This information is then forwarded to the responsible parties. Combining the GA Desk and various FAA tools as part of the ARI support to corporate aviation operations and planning allows clients to obtain real-time, up-to-date information about:

- Air Space Flow programs

- Ground delay programs

- Ground stops

- Arrival and departure delays

- En route constraints

- Reroutes presently in effect

- Departure restrictions (for your specific departure center)

- Collaborative convective forecast product

- NOTAMS, TFRs and other changes that can and will affect a client's flight.

Through this relationship, ARI and the GA Desk are able to foresee issues and items that may impede a flight plan for customers and seamlessly input changes and alternatives that will save the operator delays. These changes and alterations are executed with ARI's knowledge of the individual client's plans and have proven to be a significant service enhancement. ARI is one of a select few companies offering this level of support and co-operation to its clients.

Background

In August 2001, the NBAA started its full-time General Aviation Desk (GA Desk), located at the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC). The primary role of the GA Desk is to act as business aviation representatives and participate in both real-time national airspace flow-control and decision-making. Its tertiary function is long-term strategic planning in the joint FAA/industry Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Workgroup.

According to the NBAA, during peak periods 4,000-6,000 aircraft operate in the National Airspace System (NAS) – equivalent to approximately 50,000 aircraft ops per day. The role of the FAA's ATCSCC is to manage this flow of air traffic within the continental United States. The ATCSCC strives to balance safety requirements with capacity and demand through the strategic management of air traffic flow. This is done to best minimize delays and congestion, and maximize the overall throughput of the NAS. By having the GA Desk integrated into this, NBAA is able to provide a real-time physical representation of subscribers' daily issues to the ATCSCC's traffic management specialists.

"The development of the DFW program and service by ARI with the GA Desk is a further refinement to the ongoing customer service commitment to which the firm adheres," said Maystrik. "It also stands as a natural extension of an earlier announcement from ARI that it is FAA-approved for direct flight planning input into the FAA's host ATC system."

ARI will have a full presentation of DFW available for review at the NBAA convention, booth No. 1705.