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Airlines Could Save $10 Billion a Year With GPS


Science & Tech  (tags: airlines, GPS, fuel, costs, air traffic, NewTechnology )

Eduardo
- 439 days ago - usatoday.com
U.S. airlines could save $10 billion a year in fuel costs by 2025 if the FAA upgrades to a satellite-based air-traffic control system. As for the upgraded "NextGen" plan, AP says it would cost $35 billion.
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Eduardo L. (102)
Friday October 10, 2008, 11:28 am
Proposed upgrade "has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade" while the U.S. aviation system currently relies on "a World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes" that cost carriers "billions of dollars in wasted fuel while.
 
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