STORY:
U.S. FAA Chief Makes Y2K Plane Reservation

Reuters is reporting that Federal Aviation Administration chief Jane Garvey has booked a flight from Washington to Dallas on New Year's Eve and will be in the air when the Greenwich Mean Time clock that controls air navigation rolls over to the year 2000.

The article says Garvey and FAA Year 2000 computer bug coordinator, Ray Long, have been promising since last year to fly on New Year's Eve to allay public fears about flying through the date rollover.

The FAA said the agency had purchased tickets for Garvey and Long on New Year's Eve on AMR Corp.'s American Airlines. Reuters reports Garvey and Long are due to depart Washington's Reagan National Airport on American Airlines Flight 1799 at 6:06 p.m. EST (2306 GMT).

Since air navigation works off Greenwich Mean Time, five hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time at the end of the year, the two will be in the air when the critical hour, 7 p.m. EST, arrives.

American Airlines said the trip by the FAA chief was a vote of confidence in the company's Y2K computer overhaul. The FAA has pledged to have all its systems free of Year 2000 bugs by the end of June. A recent full-scale test of air traffic computer repairs in Colorado was declared a success.

Source: Reuters

DATE: 5/10/99

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