Routing Types
Aircraft routing types used in flight planning are: Airway, Navaid and Direct. A route may be composed of segments of different routing types. For example, a route from Chicago to Rome may include Airway routing over the U.S. and Europe, but Direct routing over the Atlantic Ocean.
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