Aviation is responsible for the 2% of greenhouse gas produced by man. For 2050 the European Union established the objective of reducing the 75% of CO2 emissions per pax and kilometre in commercial aviation. In…
On Horizon2020 – Innovating aviation solutions
Next december the 18th the European Commission will present the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport programmes included in the new Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or…
A rough guide to A-CDM
At aeriaA we are trying to address the A-CDM concept from several points of view, interviews at Meet the Expert's Airtalks interviews (see the Airtalk with the authors of the TITAN Project book, and with…
Quo Vadis Iberia?
It is really ironic that this question could be formulated by any Hispania's roman centurion more than 2.000 years ago. Cartago established on the Hispania's east coast and promote the commerce of mineral deposits…
On an airplane legend. Boeing 747 (Rollout 45th…
The 747's story is the story of its Principal Engineer, Joe Sutter, it is the story of Boeing, it is the story of the "right plane", it is the story of "The Incredibles", it…
On learning to fly (Gliding)
aeriaA as a website about aviation tries to cover all the topics. But there is one basic topic that is the primary reason of writing about airports, technologies applied to them, aviation history, interviews…
On the beginnings of drones
1962, one of the Cold War's Milestones, the Cuban's Missiles Crisis and the Blockade, John Glenn the first american orbited the Earth in the NASA's Mercury Program, Neil Armstrong as a test pilot, among others,…
On the new Airport’s Digital Level (ACRIS)
Airport Passenger's centric, new revenues paths, more cooperation between the main airport's stakeholders (airlines, airport, ground handling, ATC...) in order to improve the punctuality and service, external 3rd party apps, new huge and modern terminals,…
On the State-of-the-Art Integration, BPM and CEP on…
The past 6th of june, at the Aeronautics and Space College (EIAE) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. UPM (Spain), my book titled, "State of-the-Art of IT technologies applied to Airports", published by Isdefe, were presented (spanish language…
On Mobile use at Commercial Aviation. An introduction.
[Article's update] This article was written at the beginning of 2013, so since the Personal Electronics Devices are allowed since 2014, I update this post with a new section at the end of it. Few…
On the Aeriaa Airport Dashboard (part VI). Events…
Some days ago, a friend of mine, Ram, put me on the track of Splunk, I've never noticed it, so I downloaded it and at the first glance I knew it was perfect for the…
On airports Mobile Apps (ANA Portugal) Tracking a…
In the previous post about the beautiful ANA mobile App, I just simply shown some screen captures. This week, I downloaded the Aeroportos de Portugal iPhone App in order to focus in the flight tracking…
On the Aeriaa Airport Dashboard (part V) –…
Before processing thousands of events, scenarios, etc. for feeding the Dashboard, I would like to show the a dimension that put in context almost every event. The time dimension. Delays are the "Oh, no, a…
On the origins of the Airline’s Electronic Reservations…
In the first part of this series, I talked about the early steps taken by Aviaco and Iberia in order to mechanize the reservations processes, one of these steps was an IBM study for collecting the…