Sweden’s CTT Systems, provider of humidity control and condensation prevention in aircraft, recently received an order from the Dallas-based completion centre Associated Air Center to deliver its Zonal Comfort System for a vip B767 aircraft.

Associated Air Center’s order marks the first for CTT from a US-based completion centre.

“When we were approached with this order, passenger comfort was of the utmost importance to the customer,” said Chris Mason, vip B767 project manager for Associated Air Center.

“Business travellers are realising they don’t have to accept the numerous problems associated with dry cabin air by choosing to implement CTT’s solution.”

Based on evaporative cooling technology, the Zonal Comfort System is designed to address the problems associated with dry air in executive jets by raising humidity levels in the cabin to 25 per cent.

Other customers for the product include SAS, which is trialling the system on its Boeing 767. Furthermore, Lufthansa has equipped BBJs with the system while Jet Aviation has equipped a BBJ and a B747SP.

“To receive an order from one of the top US completion centres is a significant step for CTT in our goal to penetrate the US market,” said Torbjörn Johansson, president of CTT Systems.\r

“This order validates the growing customer demand for increased passenger comfort.”

Once the vip B767 aircraft arrives from the Boeing production line, implementation of the Zonal Comfort System is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2003.

CTT now works with three of the major completion centres in the world, including Lufthansa Technik and Jet Aviation.