The contracts, worth about €19 million, were awarded through an international bidding process in competition with the major companies from the sector.
At the Chengdu facility, managed by the Air Traffic Management Bureau South West (ATMB SW), Indra will implement its traffic automation system that will manage all the upper air space of the country’s southwest, giving service to the regions of Yunnan, Tibet, Chongqing and Guizhou, as well as the province of Sichuan itself, of which Chengdu is the capital.
Further, it will provide approximation and control tower services to the aircraft that utilize the Shuang Liu international airport, one of the most important in the country. This is located near Chengdu, which has a population of ten million people.
The air traffic management system that Indra will put in place will have more than eighty workstations for controllers. It will also implement a simulator so that professionals can familiarize themselves with the system.
With respect to the center at Xian, another of the strategic centers in the Chinese network for air traffic management, Indra will put in place an automated system with seventy controller workstations in order to manage the upper air space and the control tower. The company will also include a simulation system as well as a system for verification and testing.
These systems will support the Air Traffic Management Bureau of North West (ATMB NW) to coordinate traffic in the region of Shaanxi, where Xian is located, as well as the neighboring provinces of Ningxia y Gansu.