"Fiacre compared the challenges of running the Windows 3.1-supported DECOR to the issues faced by NASA with its Voyager program, which was launched in 1977."<p>Except that Voyager 1 is 20 billion kilometers away while this system is sitting right at there the airport. ;-)
If the supply of people willing to port win16 code to more maintainable technology is really so low that a critical system in a air port can not be fixed, then I think it is time market rates start to establish themselves.<p>I'll gladly hack win16 by moonlight for 190USD/hour. Contact if interested.