Malaysia Airlines to use flight trackersREUTERS A Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 March 31, 2014. Malaysia Airlines is set to be the first airline to have its planes tracked globally by a satellite flight tracking system. The company did not link the planned update to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, noting only that the new technology had only "recently been made available". Read more:* Malaysia Airlines confuses Auckland for Christchurch* Malaysia Airlines flight departs Auckland after two-day delay* Google Earth invites you to 'get lost' exploring the planet"The new technology has been enhanced to cover remote areas or to airspace which were not accessible before and real-time [position] aircraft tracking." "As this technology has only recently been made available in the market, we [Malaysia Airlines] took the lead and upgraded our current system with this enhanced version."

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