Originally Posted by Cohiba

The reason for this is NEXGEN. FAA ATC wants to institute curvilinear 3-5 mile visual approaches into the major US airports. Steve D is the chair of the ATA NexGen committee. DAL has requested to start in FEB 2011 these approaches in ATL. SouthWest currently has the ability to do these approaches. If we want to play ball, we have to have the avionic reliability and features the flat glass brings.