Southwest Airlines has now begun using required navigation performance procedures at 11 airports nationwide, the carrier announced Tuesday. The milestone, part of the company’s announced $175 million, ...

Required Navigation Performance started out in 1996 as a way for carriers to access mountainous airports safely. Now Southwest Airlines is about to use RNP to cut fuel burn and emissions while flying ...

Quovadis, the flight operations services company of Airbus, has been chosen by Tibet Airlines to implement Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedures for its operations using the Airbus A319.

As Southwest Airlines moves ahead with plans to implement new fuel-saving navigation procedures, the airline is finding the process challenging. The low-cost carrier is investing $175 million over the ...

Southwest Airlines’ senior director of Flight Operations Jeff Martin spoke today about the benefits of RNP (Required Navigation Performance) and Southwest’s progression on RNP implementation ...

Kathmandu airport has implemented a new RNP AR procedures designed by NAVBLUE. Surrounded by mountains with a very challenging operating environment, Required Navigation Performance with Authorisation ...

Required navigation performance (RNP) procedures and their bottom-line operational cost benefits have been proven for exotic locations worldwide, and most modern airliners are being delivered with the ...

Supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) roadmap for Performance-Based Navigation, Southwest has committed an investment of $175 million over the coming six years to implement Required ...

Naverus, a part of GE Aviation Systems, announced it will begin Required Navigation Performance (RNP) work at a sixth Chinese airport, Lijiang, that will help improve Air China and Sichuan Airlines ac ...

DALLAS and SEATTLE, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) and Naverus announce today that they have signed an agreement to partner on ...

After a decade of debate, wrangling and setbacks, the Federal Aviation Administration has established the first comprehensive procedures for safer and more precise landings in all kinds of weather ...

SEATTLE & RIO DE JANEIRO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brazil’s first Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight procedures are approved for operational use, following a successful validation flight by GOL on ...