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 ...

A Constant Angle Non-Precision Approach (CANPA) is a technique for non-precision approaches that involves maintaining a continuous, constant-angle descent from the Final Approach Fix (FAF) to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

easyJet is to upgrade its A320 Family fleet with Airbus’ “Descent Profile Optimisation” (DPO) – a fuel-saving enhancement to the aircraft’s on-board Flight Management System (FMS) performance database ...

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 ...

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 ...