Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX), the annual event where airlines, industry suppliers and cabin interiors professionals converge to shape the cabins of the future, will return on 8-10 April 2025 at Hamburg Messe. The 2024 event saw strong growth, and the 2025 event promises even more reasons to attend
The number of aircraft with in-flight connectivity is projected to surpass 60,800 by 2033, with NGSO and multi-orbit solutions helping reshape the market as airlines transition from legacy systems. Technical advances are fuelling bandwidth growth by reducing costs, leading to an over 20-fold increase in leased capacity
Three of Qatar Airways’ Boeing 777-300 aircraft will first receive Starlink’s wi-fi connectivity by the fourth quarter of this year, with the airline’s entire fleet due to upgraded with the technology over the next two years. The airline claims wi-fi speeds of up to 500 Megabits per second per plane
Gilat’s SkyEdge IV platform, the industry’s first MEO-GEO system, is now enabling connectivity services on SES’s O3b mPower software-driven constellation
IFEC provider, Anuvu, has reached a landmark moment with Turkish Airlines, having completed the installation of its Airconnect inflight connectivity system on over 100 of the carrier’s A321 and B737NG narrow-body aircraft
Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) has announced preview details of the products and services in Inflight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) technology due to appear at the event on 28-30 May at Hamburg Messe
Anuvu, a provider of connectivity and entertainment technologies to mobility markets, has announced the names of the first two High Throughput Satellites in the Anuvu Constellation, which will form a key element in the GEO layer of the Anuvu network
Delta Air Lines has selected an inflight connectivity system from Hughes Network Systems (Hughes) to power its passenger wi-fi services on more than 400 aircraft serving North America routes, namely Boeing 717s and regional jets
Intelsat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aalyria to advance the development of an optical technology that will transfer what the companies describe as “record amounts of data” between ground and space
Korean Air has selected Viasat as the inflight connectivity provider for its upcoming fleet of Airbus A321neo aircraft, marking the airline’s first foray into onboard wi-fi. The deal marks the largest post-pandemic agreement for Viasat’s inflight connectivity services in North Asia
