Delta Air Lines requested an extension of the Commission’s Jan....
Delta Air Lines requested an extension of the Commission’s Jan. 1, 2013, deadline for migration of all VHF and UHF Part 90 operations to narrowband, according to a filing posted Wednesday. “Delta has already purchased thousands of radios that needed…
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to be replaced in order to be compliant with the Commission’s narrowbanding standard,” Delta said. Delta expects to complete its narrowbanding efforts at 24 locations by the end of 2012, covering more than 60% of its fleet, but that will leave about 150 stations “for which Delta anticipates difficulty” meeting the deadline. Because Delta’s 10,000-unit land mobile radio system is spread nationwide, the narrowbanding must be done in a “staged manner,” it said, taking “far longer than it would have if the system was located in a single geographic area.” The process is “complicated” because of Delta’s 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, it said: “A significant amount of time needed to be spent accessing each airline’s radio operations, and determining what, if any, consolidation was needed.” Delta intends to complete the narrowbanding process across all its facilities “by the end of 2013,” it said.