The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) will not disappear in 2025 — or 2030 for that matter. Today, ACARS is well known by flight operations engineers as the ...

Wizz Air, a Budapest, Hungary-based operator of more than 100 Airbus A320s, has become Europe’s first airline to start using SITAONAIR’s aircraft communication, addressing and reporting system (ACARS) ...

ARINC Direct this summer is planning to begin delivery of its new Xplore device, a portable unit that is designed to bring ACARS services typically found only on large business jets and airliners to a ...

Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER are tight-lipped about Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) data reported by the aircraft.

Eight days since the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared somewhere over southeast Asia, the last known details about the missing Boeing 777 come from the onboard SATCOM system. Very few ...

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 flew out to sea off Malaysia on a routine flight to Beijing on March 8 it disappeared from all tracking systems. A total of 239 people were on board and authorities ...

Russian airlines are preparing to restore access to the digital datalink Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). The system is used to transmit short text messages between ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the airline industry and aviation safety. May 21, 2016, 08:47am EDT May 21, 2016, 11:20am EDT This article is more ...

Use of the traditional airline datalink ACARS (airborne communications addressing and reporting system) has doubled in five years, reaching a landmark two million messages a day linking 10,000 user ...

The official Malaysian account of the last contacts made to and received by Flight MH370 is unraveling. As it does, the sinister interpretations of what happened in the cockpit of the Boeing 777 ...