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France Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot announced that the French government will build three new airports to solve increasing passenger and cargo traffic and environment problems. The airports will replace existing facilities at Nantes and Brive, and supplement Roissy-CDG and Orly airports in Paris, France. Building of three new airports became necessary when Roissy-CDG alone is expected to handle 55 million passengers as early as 2003, much earlier than previous prediction that such trafffic would occur in the year 2015.
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Eurocontrol and the French STNA have announced that they have completed the site acceptance test of the first phase of the Pre-operational European Mode S Station (POEMS) installed at the Paris-Orly International Airport in France. POEMS is part of the Eurocontrol Mode-S program to deploy Mode S secondary surveillance radars across Europe. All hardware and software for POEMS were supplied by Airsys ATM.
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Nice Cote d'Azur, France's second busiest airport, has started using plasma screen technology to display flight information to its 8 million passengers. The installation of plasma screens throughout the airport is part of the $3.2 million program that aims to transform the airport's remote viewing systems. The project began in 1998 and is due to continue progressively until 2002.
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