In July 2010, 18 projects involving 40 airlines, airports, ANSPs and industry partners were selected for the 2010/2011 cycle of the AIRE programme, in which surface, terminal, oceanic and gate-to-gate operations were tackled. In comparison to the first round of AIRE projects in 2008/2009, this...

When the European Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) in 2007, few would have expected that results could be delivered so quickly. In 2009, AIRE executed more than 1,000 commercial flight trials in...