ATNS wins aircraft landing aid system maintenance contract for six South African airports

South Africa’s national State-owned air traffic management agency, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), has been awarded a new five-year contract by another State-owned company, the Airports Company South Africa, to maintain the Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at six of the latter’s national airports. The awarding of the contract followed a rigorous tender process. ILS is an aid to pilots that allows them to approach and land on runways in bad weather and poor, even zero, visibility. It does so by radio beams that provide pilots with precise vertical and horizontal guidance, as they bring their aircraft in to land.