PBN Benefits: Capacity Improvements
Aircraft can carry more weight and burn less fuel over specific routes when they follow PBN paths designed to extract that benefit. Likewise, the precision and reliability of PBN paths facilitates more efficient airspace design, which allows more traffic to flow safely and smoothly in high-traffic areas.
PBN Can Increase the Capacity of the Airspace
In Queenstown, New Zealand, PBN departure routes helped Qantas carry more passengers and reduce fuel costs. See how advanced PBN helped improve aircraft performance on this particular route.
Air traffic controllers can move more aircraft through a given volume of airspace when they know that the aircraft are precisely following PBN paths. An aircraft on an optimized PBN path moves with the precision and reliability of a train on a railroad track. Because controllers know precisely where the aircraft is going and know precisely when it will cross any given point, they can safely reduce separation distances and more easily and efficiently manage heavy traffic flows.