Aviation Daily Roundup: March 11

Air traffic control equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has signed a contract with Naviair, Denmark's air navigation service provider, for a backup radio communications system.

Thales is gearing up for its first deliveries of the DME 500, the French group’s fifth-generation distance measuring equipment which is compatible with existing onboard receivers.

Mainland Chinese airports handled 1.35 billion passengers in 2019, up 6.9% on the previous year, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said.

The FAA is waiving its slot-usage rules at the three slot-controlled U.S. airports and will credit airlines for canceled flights due to COVID-19-related service cuts at four other congested airports; the agency is asking foreign regulators to match the moves for affected U.S. airlines.

Finland’s Nokia has announced the deployment of an upgraded, IP-based air traffic control communications network for the Irish Aviation Authority following the completion of a series of live trials in North Atlantic airspace.

Honeywell is upgrading the airfield lighting and surface movement guidance systems at Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea.

Aeroflot Group reported a 2019 net profit of RUB13.5 billion ($218 million). The group had to restate its 2018 full-year results according to International Financial Reporting Standards requirements, which resulted in a loss of RUB55.7 billion for 2018.

Reduced flying by some Australian airlines will mean more work for their engineering divisions as the carriers look to bring forward maintenance work.

United Airlines is leaving nothing to chance over the potential impact of COVID-19, operating under planning assumptions that United president Scott Kirby called “much more severe than anything we’ve seen anyone else publish.”

Aireon and Searidge Technologies announced a partnership on Mar. 10 to integrate satellite-routed position data from aircraft into Searidge’s “digital tower” platform for large airports.