Alaska Airlines joins FAA study.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Alaska Airlines and three other aviation companies are working with the Federal Aviation Administration on a five-year, $66 million project to develop computer technologies that reduce fuel consumption, emissions and noise. Alaska Airlines will conduct test flights for the project, which also includes GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin and AirDat.

Test flights later this year will establish a baseline to measure commercial aircraft fuel use, emissions and noise using current flight and air traffic management technologies...