NextGen

Performance Success Stories

January 2013

This edition highlights how new NextGen approaches into airports in Washington, D.C. and Phoenix are saving time for passengers. Also explore how rearranging airspace at two airports creates more capacity, and how NextGen technology in Colorado is helping improve tracking of aircraft.

Two runways: one on the left and one on the right. One runway opening when another runway is using NextGen landing procedures.

Deconflicting Flight Paths with NextGen Procedures

Signals coming from the mountains below to a plane flying overhead.

WAM – It’s Making an Impact in Colorado

Plane making a smooth descent into the Phoenix area. It is a desert scene that shows sand and cacti surrounding the city.

NextGen Descends on Sky Harbor

An airplane flying from left to right over a river. In the background are representations of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol building.

Honoring the Past While Flying Into the Future

October 2012

Mountains? Low clouds? No problem. Discover how NextGen is helping fly precision routes into Juneau International Airport in Alaska. Also see how NextGen is helping a world-wide delivery service and see the benefits new technology is having in the General Aviation community.

NextGen Saves the Day in Juneau

The World On Time with NextGen

Cloudy Day is A-OK at Half Moon Bay

June 2012

Find out how one airline is saving gallons of fuel and shaving minutes from flights by flying NextGen routes into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Additionally we explore departure management in Atlanta, show how NextGen is relieving congestion in the airspace, and reveal how data sharing practices are reducing delays at major airports.

an aircraft flying toward the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport using the classic route and three aircraft flying toward the runway using a new, curved route

Greener Skies Over Seattle = Greener Skies Over the USA

two additional departure paths from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's runways 10 and 8R

Ten Degrees of Separation in Atlanta

three lanes of flying aircraft merging into one lane and landing on the runway at Newark while flying across the airspace boundaries of Cleveland, Boston and New York centers

NextGen Uses Time to Minimize Delays at Busy Airports

Data Sharing Helps Airlines Reduce Delays

March 2012

The initial series of success stories focuses on Ground Management benefits at JFK, New WAAS coverage helping at airports across the country, as well as showing the benefits from NextGen installation in the Gulf of Mexico.