Pan-European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol is to focus on advanced continuous descent approach (CDA) techniques to be used in the busiest airport periods following promising early results ...

With many of the carriers in the MENA region flying multi-daily services into Europe, news from Geneva today on the latest progress of flying environmental approaches to European airports could lead ...

easyJet has today announced the completion of its fleetwide retrofit, which has seen Airbus’ Descent Profile Optimisation (DPO) state-of-the-art technology now fitted on all of its aircraft, alongside ...

A joint initiative to implement continuous descent approaches at 100 European airports by 2013 is on track to meet its target, delegates attending this year's Aviation and the Environment Summit in ...

Commercial jets are at their noisiest and dirtiest when they're coming in for a landing. As they descend, they rattle homes, damage ears, increase blood pressure and, of course, spew loads of ...

EasyJet, the second largest U.K.-based low-cost airline, will modify its fleet of in-service Airbus A320 jets with a Flight Management System (FMS) software upgrade that will help its pilots reduce ...

A new landing system that allows jetliners to glide into Los Angeles International Airport is expected to reduce noise and pollution levels by more than 30 percent, the Federal Aviation Administration ...

The European Continuous Descent Approach Action Plan to bring CDA to 100 airports by 2013 is on track, with CDA in place at 33 airports and a further 13 carrying out flight trials, said Eurocontrol ...

Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning "redeye" flights during the past few months may have noticed something different during their descent to the runway. Instead of the typical ...

Noise nuisance from aircraft can be reduced significantly by changing the way the planes come in to land. Lining up with the runway as far as 70 kilometres away and making a steady descent can more ...