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LEAV teams with AirFi for WhatsApp messaging, IFE and smart retail

Though AirFi’s LEO light connectivity and entertainment solution has broken cover elsewhere, scrappy German carrier LEAV Aviation has ... Continue Reading

Airline point of sale device shows the passenger's credit card has been declined. The real-time authentication is supported by the AirFi LEO system.

AirFi LEO breaks cover on Atlantic Airways A320

AirFi LEO, the Iridium Certus 100-powered connectivity solution from AirFi, has broken cover on an Atlantic Airways Airbus A320, with a post... Continue Reading

An engineer is installing AirFi LEO on an aircarft.

Press Release: AirFi LEO installs reach milestone with 50 commitments

AirFi is thrilled to announce that its groundbreaking, minimally invasive AirFi LEO low-Earth orbit in-flight connectivity was contracted to... Continue Reading

AirFi founding partner and CEO Job Heimerikx is pictured in front of an AirFi step & repeat at the APEX/IFSA Global EXPO in Long Beach.

One-on-one with AirFi founding partner and CEO Job Heimerikx

It’s no secret that portable wireless IFE provider AirFi sees the world’s narrowbody fleet as the addressable market for its Air... Continue Reading

Bombardier Challenger 3500 in-flight over mountains. This aircraft will now offer Iridium Certus satcom as baseline, according to Bombardier.

Light nextgen satcom powered by Iridium or Inmarsat has arrived

It is perhaps an understatement to say the inflight connectivity market is fiercely competitive right now. Not only are incumbent aero ISPs ... Continue Reading

An A320 cabin full of air travelers. This image shows the tops of the traveler heads and the PSUs running down the length of the aircraft. AirFi targets this market.

AirFi sees world narrowbody fleet as addressable market for AirFi LEO

It might surprise you to learn that AirFi sees all single-aisle aircraft in the world fleet as the addressable market for its AirFi LEO (Low... Continue Reading

3 AirFi units stacked on top of each other. Two black units on the bottom with an orange unit sitting on top.

Press Release: AirFi reveals new clients including Surinam for AirFi LEO

Airline technology provider AirFi is pleased to welcome three new airlines to its roster of clients. Fiji Airways, Surinam Airways and Smart... Continue Reading

AirFi CEO showcases the AirFi LEO connected box and tiny antenna at the APEX/IFSA EXPO

AirFi to fit Atlantic Airways with LEO boxes for messaging, payments

LONG BEACH — AirFi, which lays claim to being the number one portable wireless IFE provider in commercial aviation, is gearing up to install... Continue Reading

ASIP bluetooth connectivity solution with unique window antennas, as seen onboard Wizz Air UK

Iridium Certus 100 now available; will custom IFEC apps be pursued?

Iridium’s announcement this week that its Certus 100 “midband” service is commercially available could be music to the ears of certain infli... Continue Reading

A Mekco truck, delivering AirFi wireless IFE to an aircraft

Press Release: MEKCO Group secures Americas distributorship for AirFi

MEKCO Group is pleased to announce that it has been named as the North and South American distributor for AirFi’s in-flight entertainment &a... Continue Reading

Press Release: AirFi to use Iridium to launch IFC with Atlantic

Editor’s note: Since publication of this AirFi press release, company CEO Job Heimerikx has clarified that the firm will use the curre... Continue Reading