ARINC has won a $14 million contract to provide advanced passenger technology for six airports in Colombia, South America. The locations include the country’s second largest airport, Jose Maria Cordoba International Airport, in Rionegro, Antioquia. ARINC’s customer is Airplan, S.A., operator of the six airports in north-central Colombia.  ARINC will install a range of technologies appropriate to the needs of each airport, which may include vMUSE common-use check-in and departure systems, AirVUE flight information display systems, SelfServ common-use kiosks, and the AirDB airport operational database system. Explosives detection equipment will also be installed on the baggage handling systems of one or more airports. “ARINC complied well with all the requirements of our RFP, and they did a good job of explaining the quality and reliability of their system to us,” stated Sara Ramirez Restrepo, manager of Airplan. “We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship that will enhance the travel experience of millions of air passengers in Colombia.” ARINC will begin the airport installations later this year and continue working into 2011. Under the contract, ARINC and its partners will also provide IT maintenance support for the new airport systems until 2017.  Airports in Colombia that will receive the new ARINC technology are: Jose Maria Cordoba International Airport in Rionegro, and Olaya Herrera in Medellin, plus Los Garzones Airport in Monteria, Las Brujas Airport in Corozal, Antonio Roldan Betancur Airport in Carepa, and El Caraño Airport in Quibdo.