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 ...

Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long ...

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 ...

IndiGo on Wednesday said it has introduced a flight procedure that will enable pilots to navigate the complex terrain surrounding Kathmandu valley with more precision. Aviation regulator DGCA ...

Alaska Airlines introduced RNP approaches at two more regional airports in Alaska, reports Aviation Week’s Aviation Daily. The carrier debuted an RNP approach in Adak, Jan.14, and will add another at ...

US Airways flight technical operations manager Mike Davis sounds a warning as he starts a presentation on required navigation procedures: "You will hear me talk a lot about 'containment' today." Davis ...

Recently, GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes ( GOL) has been declared to be the first Brazilian airline to use RNP-AR-Approach (Required Navigation Performance). This environment friendly approach, ...

China Southern is scheduled to launch the first widebody-airliner required navigation performance (RNP) approach operations on March 18, when an Airbus A330 lands at Tibet’s Lhasa Airport. China ...

IndiGo successfully conducted its first flight utilising the Required Navigation Performance with Authorization Required (RNP AR) approach on an A320 aircraft. An all women Inspectors team from DGCA ...

New Delhi: IndiGo on Wednesday said it has introduced a flight procedure that will enable pilots to navigate the complex terrain surrounding Kathmandu valley with more precision. Aviation regulator ...