Qingdao Airlines has announced that it is fully committed to expanding and accelerating the deployment of high-speed inflight satellite internet across its aircraft fleet. IFEC supplier FTS notes it is seeing “more confidence, optimism and interest” from China’s domestic airlines on making long-term investments in inflight connectivity
Astronics Corporation has received an STC from Transport Canada for ‘The Edge’, its latest aircraft cabin network platform that enables fully featured IFE. Onboard e-commerce experience company, LiFE in the Air, is now using The Edge platform to host its digital inflight systems
A critical milestone has been passed in the verification phase for Global Eagle’s Airconnect Ka IFC terminal, to be used with the Telesat Lightspeed low-earth orbit (LEO) network. The terminal enables fibre-quality connectivity on the LEO Network
SkyFive, an air-to-ground (ATG) provider for the aviation sector, has created an an independent sister company – SkyFive Inflight Connectivity (Beijing) – which is dedicated to developing a 5G ATG inflight connectivity solution for airlines in China
Collins Aerospace’s Venue cabin management system (CMS) has had “a little work done”, including a new GUI that simplifies cabin control for passengers
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has renewed and expanded its multi-year, multi-transponder agreements with ABS, a satellite operator, to meet growing demand for connectivity capacity
Collins Aerospace has announced it has reached a critical milestone in the development of its higher bandwidth Iridium Certus airborne SATCOM system. The company has connected with and transmitted data to an orbiting Iridium satellite using the Iridium Certus service with an HGA
OneWeb reports the successful launch of 36 further satellites, bringing its in-orbit LEO constellation to a total of 182 satellites. After a further two launches, the network will be activated later this year, with inflight connectivity services to follow in 2022
Jet Edge is fitting Gogo’s Avance L5 4G connectivity systems across its super-mid and large cabin aircraft fleet
Airbus has launched the UltraAir programme to develop a laser communication terminal demonstrator for aircraft. Airbus says that laser technologies are the “next revolution” in satellite communications and will give airline passengers high-speed data connections
