NATS, the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for the United Kingdom's major airports, has selected Saab subsidiary Saab Sensis Corporation's Wide Area Multilateration system (WAM) for the location and identification of flights in the vicinity of Edinburgh Airport. By replacing the existing Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar (MSSR) with WAM, NATS controllers will receive high update rate, precise surveillance at a lower lifecycle cost than a new MSSR.

Ireland-based low-cost airline Ryanair has launched its 27th base at Edinburgh Airport in the UK. Ryanair will base two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, worth $140 million, to serve 23 routes to and from Edinburgh.

By Sandra Dick LIFE is full of firsts: that first day at school, first kiss which may or may not be before first love, first job and the first letter from the bank saying you're overdrawn and that'll be GBP 30, please.

By IAN SWANSON Scottish EDINBURGH Airport bosses have been urged to bring in lower noise limits for planes after a system of fines helped cut the racket endured by people living near the flightpath.

By Andrew Picken IF the mantra of a certain fading Australian soap opera is to be believed, everybody needs good neighbours. Try telling that to Edinburgh Airport and the Royal Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland, though.