Last fall, I reported that Alaska Airlines planned to provide pilots with iPads, speculating that the touchscreen devices could be used to replace bulky paper manuals. Now, Alaska Air has made it ...

United Airlines and Continental Airlines pilots will soon be able to ditch their hefty paper flight manuals in favor of electronic flight bags, accessible via an iPad app. By the end of the year, ...

American Airlines has now ditched heavy flight manuals and become the first major commercial carrier to introduce iPads to all of its cockpits in a move that is expected to save more than $1 million ...

The FAA gives approval for the airline to be the first commercial carrier to toss out its paper-based flight manuals in lieu of iPads -- saving the airline $1.2 million in gas costs. Dara Kerr was a ...