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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5682)	5/8/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: J.L. Turner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Hi Cheryl, Thought you,Flattsville and some of the others might want to respond or at least read this.Your pipeline post certainly had info in it that the government should confirm or deny. Respond or just read the answers - some powerful thoughts. greenspun.com J.L.T.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5682)	5/11/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

ASIA-PACIFIC NEW YEAR AIR TRAFFIC TO BE CUT BY TWO-THIRDS 12 Pacific countries [including U.S.] endorse precautions If you have to fly on New Year's Eve, book early. Most Asian airlines have agreed to cut back flights by two-thirds well before midnight on December 31. They will not resume full schedules until air traffic controllers from Auckland to Tokyo are satisfied they have the computer millennium bug under control, say sources in the International Air Transport Association (Iata). The Asia-Pacific agreement was signed last week in Tokyo by Thailand and 11 other Pacific nations with heavy air traffic and important air-control centres: Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States and Vietnam. The plan, endorsed by Iata, calls for airlines to begin grounding their jets at 6 p.m. New Zealand time (noon Thailand time) on December 31. Air traffic will be cut at least two-thirds below schedule before midnight. Ground controllers will space planes out at least twice as far as normal, both vertically and horizontally. Airline sources said the bulk of commercial airliners in the northern Pacific area would remain grounded until well after midnight Tokyo time, as various time zones change from 1999 to 2000. There is no target time to resume regular traffic, the sources said. Jets will begin flying by the schedule only after major air-traffic centres-Sydney, Bangkok, Tokyo and others-agree the computer bug poses no problems. The distance between planes will be extended to 15 minutes from the standard 10, and flight separation will be increased to 1,240 metres. The Iata move suggests that airlines and flight controllers are still unprepared for potential computer problems posed by the new year. Airlines have insisted they will meet or beat the Y2K compliance deadline-but not all have released details and few have conducted public tests to win consumer confidence. Only one international airline, Virgin Atlantic, has formally announced that it will not fly on New Year's Eve. bangkokpost.net FAA UPDATE Message 9406832 Cheryl