Press Release: Airbus picks Rockwell Collins as a lead supplier for HBC
Airbus has selected Rockwell Collins as a lead supplier of High-Bandwidth Connectivity (HBC) for the Airbus A320 single-aisle family of airc... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Airbus A320
Press Release: Saudi Arabian unveils IFE deal with Panasonic
Saudi Arabian Airlines has selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation’s (Panasonic) innovative eXO system for its fleet of 30 Airbus A320 aircr... Continue Reading
Security theater warrants sorry new meaning after EgyptAir incident
This week media jumped on the latest aviation incident to play out live on social media. Not terrorism this time, fortunately, but a lone hi... Continue Reading
Press Release: Tigerair Taiwan taps Lufthansa Technik for APU MRO
Lufthansa Technik AG has further extended its market presence in Taiwan by entering into a new long-term agreement with Taiwan-based low-cos... Continue Reading
Press Release: Eurowings A320s to get BoardConnect Portable
Eurowings, the new low cost carrier subsidiary of Lufthansa, today announced during a press conference at the ITB show in Berlin that it wil... Continue Reading
High-density A320s for easyJet will retain seat pitch, assures airline
British low-cost carrier easyJet has assured that seat pitch will remain unchanged when it takes delivery of its first 186-seat Airbus A320 ... Continue Reading
Lumexis presses Airbus to broaden IFEC catalogue offerings
The recent news that Zodiac Aerospace has been deselected from the Airbus A330neo interiors catalogue due to lavatory supply issues on the A... Continue Reading
Thales STV+ set to fly on JetBlue’s A320 fleet
The JetBlue A320 retrofit project will bring Thales's STV+ product into flight in early 2017. The new system is Android-based and uses table... Continue Reading
JetBlue retrofit plan will see more seats on A321s, fewer on A320s
JetBlue's new, higher-density A320 cabins will have fewer seats added than previously announced. The A321 Core fleet will also see a remodel... Continue Reading
ViaSat sees Yahsat move into inflight as sincere form of flattery
Competition is heating up in aviation’s regional satellite connectivity market, with Abu Dhabi’s Yahsat gearing up to trial a Ka-band servic... Continue Reading
A Space-Flex setback: carrier chooses comfort for crew
Earlier this year RGN learned that a major carrier was evaluating the Airbus/Zodiac Space-Flex v2 lavatory/galley option and had less than s... Continue Reading
Hawaiian, JetBlue suggest less is more with new slimline seats
Commercial aviation is working had to convince travelers that less is more. Hawaiian Airlines is the latest to make such a declaration, clai... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Why the rush to judgment in the Metrojet disaster
This is an excerpt from a story in The New York Times: “The cockpit voice captured ‘a brief fraction-of-a-second sound’ just before it stopp... Continue Reading
Sinai Metrojet A321 crash raises questions about Egypt, Russia
After the flight of Metrojet/Kogalymavia flight 7K9268 from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia, there... Continue Reading
Airbus places focus on people at first production site in America
MOBILE: “If we are just looking at [the cost] of people we should probably locate the assembly line in Mexico.” That is the stor... Continue Reading
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