The aviation industry aims to avoid turbulence by means of improving forecasts and weather models, as well as weather up- and downlinks. However, rerouting, change of flight level and logistic unreliability lead to wasting valuable resources, such as energy, CO2 emissions, and time. For a number of  flights avoiding turbulence is not possible, especially for short-range low-level flights. A radical alternative for passengers to avoid  inflight turbulence is switching to ground transportation.

Based on certification requirements, wings are reinforced to withstand typical gusts and turbulence. Still, to not exceed load limits the airspeed needs to be reduced in turbulent air to ensure structural integrity. Flying throught turbulence passengers are exposed to intense and rapidly changing accelerations, leading to discomfort and fear. Without seatbelt flight crew and passengers regularly get injured in severe turbulence, leading to the majority of severe injuries of airline flights and in some cases even to death. In consequence of constantly improving turbulence forecast and data, flight into known turbulence is likely to be restricted in future, similarly to flights into known icing or low-visibility.

Gust load alleviation systems aim to reduce wing root moments, commonly by symmetric aileron deflection. The so far achieved alleviation in the order of 10% is aimed to be further improved for envisaged structural mass reduction. Given its limited authority and reactive nature, so far considered control systems show no significant improvement of passenger comfort and are not sufficient to effectively cope with increased levels of atmospheric turbulence.