Partners in a SESAR demonstration have enabled the operation of Europe’s first green flights for turboprop aircraft and the introduction of new green arrival procedures for Riga airport. Latvian airline, airBaltic, together with its consortium partners AirbusProSky and Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme recently completed the Arrival Modernization for Better Efficiency in Riga (AMBER) project, which was co-financed by the SESAR Joint Undertaking.

Announced in 2013, the AMBER project has laid a solid foundation to establish new arrival procedures for Riga Airport that will shorten the distances flown, improve flight trajectories to avoid residential areas and reduce people’s exposure to noise, as well as cut fuel consumption and emissions. The project introduced satellite-based approach procedures at Riga Airport for airBaltic’s state-of-the art Bombardier Q400 Next Gen turboprop aircraft and thus helped to practice greener flying.

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