BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Adds Real-Time Flight Tracker and Weather Displays

BWI AIRPORT, MD (April 23, 2008) - Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has installed several flight tracker and weather display monitors throughout the passenger terminal. The monitors, located alongside traditional airport flight information display systems (FIDS), provide a real-time, visual image of air traffic and weather conditions. Customers can use the new technology to see up-the-minute flight and weather information. “These new flight and weather trackers offer an important customer service benefit,” said Timothy L. Campbell, A.A.E., Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration. “The displays provide another source of valuable information for airport users.” The new monitors present maps and up-to-the-minute graphical information including the airline and the flight number for commercial flights arriving and departing BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Arriving flights are shown in red, while departures appear blue. Current U.S. weather radar information is also displayed on the monitors, adjacent to the flight data. The flight tracker and weather information are important tools for the more than 20 million annual passengers traveling through BWI Marshall Airport. The flight tracker and weather display technologies are produced with RLM Software’s FlightView brand of flight tracking solutions. Additional information on the technology is available at http://www.flightview.com [1].