NATS, the leading provider of air traffic services and solutions in the United Kingdom, received the 2011 Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Earl F. Ward Memorial Award for their deployment of Saab AB subsidiary Saab Sensis Corporation's Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) in the North Sea. Presented at the annual ATCA conference, the Ward Award is "presented to a group for an outstanding achievement during the previous year, which has added to the quality, safety or efficiency of air traffic control." The North Sea WAM system enhances the safety of air traffic serving off-shore oil and gas platforms by providing surveillance coverage in a challenging, remote environment that previously did not have complete radar coverage.

EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensis Corporation's Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) deployment in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland is now certified for Air Traffic Control (ATC) by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority.

EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- NATS Services is now using Sensis Corporation's Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland for helicopter flight following.

By MARK WILLIAMSON GLASGOW Airport could trade Spanish ownership for Dutch control after the firm which owns Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam broke cover as a potential bidder.

By DAVID LEASK THE owners of Manchester Airport are poised to make an early bid for its Glasgow counterpart. Publicly-owned MAG yesterday became the first operator to break cover in what is expected to be a scramble to secure Scotland's biggest long-haul gateway.