Inside an A350-optimized Unum Two seat, as revealed at AIX
With modularity at the heart of its approach to aircraft seat design, Unum Aircraft Seating has carried over key elements of its Unum One ou... Continue Reading
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Why RAVE Aerospace is staying the course with miniLED LCD for IFE
RAVE Aerospace is confident it made the right decision in selecting 4K miniLED HDR 10+ Liquid Crystal Displays for its latest inflight enter... Continue Reading
Middle East conflict is wild card for aerospace supply chain: report
Although financial and personnel pressures have eased slightly, global aerospace supply chains “still face major challenges,” as... Continue Reading
Boasting a new production plant ABC details growth opportunities
After largely insulating itself from the brunt of aviation’s supply chain crunch with a new production facility in the Italian town of... Continue Reading
Viva taps SES multi-orbit IFC for 100 Airbus narrowbodies
Mexican ultra-low-cost carrier Viva has selected SES’s multi-orbit, electronically steerable antenna (ESA)-based inflight connectivity solut... Continue Reading
BBC Studios, Panasonic could offer IFE over-the-top via BBC Player
Working with select streaming platform sponsors, some airlines today offer cleverly curated stored content channels via their seatback infli... Continue Reading
American pivots to Starlink for 500-plus Airbus narrowbodies
Gravitating towards low-latency non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) satcom since its 2023 decision to bring multi-orbit inflight connec... Continue Reading
New inflight map Inplay Navigator enters the picture
As one of most watched channels on seatback IFE screens in the world fleet, the inflight moving map has steadily grown in popularity over th... Continue Reading
How SIMONA Boltaron meets airline aesthetic standards with Terreform
Eager to improve the sustainability credentials of aircraft cabins, high-performance thermoplastic specialist SIMONA Boltaron in 2021 introd... Continue Reading
RAVE supercharges IFE development with new OS and App Marketplace
Seeking to accelerate development cycles in inflight entertainment and bring dramatic enhancements to the passenger experience — including v... Continue Reading
SES advances work on multi-band ESA for meoSphere + LEO IFC
Preparing to offer meoSphere Ka-band Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) plus Ka- or Ku-band Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-powered inflight connectiv... Continue Reading
Diehl Space³ lav to enter service this year, narrowbody variant afoot
Diehl Aviation’s award-winning aircraft lavatory innovation, Space³, is slated to enter revenue service with an undisclosed airline before t... Continue Reading
Hello from Air Canada A321XLR Aurora suite as service flow explained
The debut of Collins Aerospace’s Aurora lie-flat suite aboard American Airlines’ new Airbus A321XLR twinjets has been met with m... Continue Reading
Why aviation sustainability and accessibility are interconnected
Following an uplifting few days in Hamburg at the Passenger Experience Conference and Aircraft Interiors Expo, your author was encouraged by... Continue Reading
Gilat confident on entering Airbus catalog
As the inflight connectivity market rapidly evolves to facilitate new NGSO constellations, and airframers shape their IFC catalogs to accomm... Continue Reading