LIMA (Reuters) - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and ...

Horizon Air, a regional carrier in the northwestern United States, flies in a challenging environment and, therefore, has special needs. It flies into airports in mountainous terrain, and it seeks ...

In July 2002, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced its commitment to implementing required navigation performance (RNP) airspace and procedures throughout the U.S. National Airspace ...

Air Berlin’s Boeing 737 fleet chief and pilot Michail Tounas says a hybrid approach the German carrier is using at Innsbruck airport “combines the best of both worlds” between traditional radio-based ...

Southwest has long been a fan of the old round dial cockpits where big fancy screens were always things of the future. It looks like they've finally found a reason to upgrade their older aircraft to ...

New Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach and departure procedures are set to enable flights to operate into and out of Queenstown Airport on New Zealand’s ...

Captain Rajiv Singh, Head of Training at IndiGo, claims the air service provider to be the first amongst Indian carriers flying to Kathmandu to adopt the RNP AR flight procedure IndiGo Airlines has ...

IndiGo has introduced the Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR) flight procedure for its operations into Kathmandu. IndiGo successfully operated the validation flight today, ...

WHY USE REQUIRED NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE? US AIRWAYS is one of a growing number of carriers that are preparing aircraft and flightcrews to benefit from NextGen's precision-based navigation procedures.

LIMA - Stung by higher fuel costs, LAN Airlines flew Latin America's first flight on Thursday using a navigational system from takeoff to landing that it says will save time and money and reduce ...

— -- Question: Captain Cox, why do airplanes still fly magnetic course when most all navigation is done now with GPS navigation and the ability to fly true course(s)? It seems odd that the ...