No-one will argue with the fact that our industry has too many acronyms and abbreviations. The amount of jargon is high – I even have trouble keeping up with it sometimes. At the recent Aviation & Environment Summit, we made two announcements – one on the implementation of CDA at airports across Europe (that’s continuous descent approach) and the other on a global plan to bring about PBN (performance based navigation).

To introduce you to some more acroynms, here is a video produced by the US FAA on the NextGen air traffic control system that the industry has been asking for for quite some time. In fact, a group of organisations from across aviation have now got together to demand ‘NextGen now’ – urging the US Government to speed up the delivery of this system which will save millions of tonnes of CO2 annually.

If you can excuse the cheesy music, this video explains very nicely what NextGen will mean – remember, for every minute saved in flight, fuel is saved and emissions are reduced.