IndiGo shortens flight path with new navigation system
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IndiGo is collaborating with Quovadis, a subsidiary of Airbus, the Airports Authority of India (AAI), and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to enable secure landing and take-off at the Kochi International Airport. The process, known as Required Navigation Performance (RNP), brings great benefits to both the authorities and IndiGo. The navigation system increases the accuracy of the flight path with contained and secure trajectories. This shortens the flight path by approximately 75km on each approach, thus saving about 400kg of fuel per landing. It also facilitates traffic management in non-radar environments. Following successful test flights last week, Aditya Ghosh, President of IndiGo, said; “We are looking forward to commercially flying RNP approaches at Kochi airport in the very near future. We hope for tangible cost savings as it will improve the efficiency of our operations. But more importantly, we are excited about partnering in this significant step towards improving Air Traffic Management in India and making it a safer environment from a security, and carbon emission point of view.”
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