a flight the company says a helicopter service between lower manhattan and john f. kennedy had to national airport is available to all because of his and vocal in the app passengers can bring along a small suitcase and have to watch an in-flight safety video. many commuters and travelers have been turning to ride sharing companies to save money or for convenience now they can escape the gridlock on the ground by taking to the air tube or technologies is hoping to fill a market niche in new york city with helicopter rides to and from john f. kennedy airport. you know we look at where there is demand we do a lot of trips to the airport from manhattan right now and so d we know there s a there s a lot of demand to get from manhattan to j.f.k. and and back both ways and so we think this is a perfect opportunity to really provide value to our riders in a way to get to j.f.k. even faster than they can now. claims the service is intended to reduce travel time
jackets are inflated by pulling on this red tag. this would make you watch? it would make you watch. i mean, people who doze during those in-flight safety instructions might not with this. but air new zealand took this down over the weekend. and they added babies. that s how it goes for television. they cover all the safety bases. they say taking it down had nothing to do with the complaints. it just ran its course. how long did this course run before they took it down? they have one with bear grylls up for a couple of weeks. and this one they just took down. all right. air new zealand. they gave it the college try. gave it a shot. thank you, sarah. urgent news coming in, continuing coverage of the air
second. i m curious if there s any resistance from the airlines to this system. airlines don t have they always look at capital expenditure or operating expenditure. systems are available, and we have one customer from the middle east and we ve been marketing since october of last year our latest version of the system. so there is resistance, but when we are able to show them our return on investment and the savings they make on various things like fuel, engine condition monitoring, flight operations, quality assurance, which we are able to point out any degradation in systems. chairman and ceo of star navigation systems, i suspect there will be a lot more interest in your device. in fact, what we are doing now is we are moving to a
the forecast doesn t look good for the coming week. a cyclone is currently to the north of the search area and is moving towards it. also the malaysian thundershowers are still conducting a search in the northern arc, which includes places like here in thailand all the way to kazakhstan. back to you, uma. all right, david. thanks for the update. the search for flight 370 has really put a spotlight on the limitations of the current technology used by airlines. data from the plane has given investigators something to go on, but it has fallen fall short of answering the most important question of where is that plane. so there stl technology that can change all that? our next guest says yes. he is chairman and ceo of star navigation systems. he says his company s in-flight safety monitoring system can track problems on airplanes in real time. and he joins us now with more on that. can you tell us more about the system and how it works? yes, definitely. and thank you for inviting us.
basically our system is a realtime monitoring system which is compared to the black box or anything else is proactive rather than reactive. our system tweets every five minutes and they can be programmed to come in at every one second, 15 second, every minute. basically what we do is look at the system on board the aircraft through various data but pull information from. and this information is processed and then sent to the ground. within seconds they re able to know if there is any system degradation where the aircraft is within they can track it on their screens. we also have a second to none graphic user interface, which if there is an event or problem in the aircraft, mechanical, electrical, whatever, and if one of the data boxes picks it up, our system will be able to show it on the ground as if whatever