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Outside close up of Boeing 777 flight deck.

ThinKom Ka2517 in the home stretch for Boeing linefit offerability

ThinKom Solutions says it’s in the home stretch to receiving linefit offerability for its ThinAir Ka2517 VICTS antenna as buyer furnis... Continue Reading

Installation of SmartSky ATG system on a Dassault Falcon 2000. The company sees a big opportunity as Gogo reveals it will start phasing out support of Classic ATG kit in the beginning of 2026.

Opportunity arises as Gogo plans 2026 phase out of Classic ATG support

Thousands of Gogo’s legacy air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity installations on business aircraft appear poised to lose access to inflight conn... Continue Reading

ThinKom Solutions' Ka2517 VICTA antenna sitting alongside the Hughes electronically steerable antenna in the same IFC package for airlines, as seen on display at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. Hughes will use this hybrid for one of its new IFC products.

Hughes eyes direct IFC approach with LEO-, GEO- and multi-band hybrid

At a time of massive disruption in inflight connectivity — colored by industry consolidation, the introduction of LEO satellite service to t... Continue Reading

Rendering of the ThinKom ThinAir Plus antenna package, featuring the Ka2517 VICTS and a smaller ESA beside it in the same package, on a blue background

Press Release: ThinKom launches hybrid IFC antenna system

Airlines have a new choice when it comes to bringing high-performance inflight internet service on board. The modular ThinAir Plus architect... Continue Reading

At the Hughes booth at the Airline Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, Reza Rasoulian, vice president at Hughes, and Ben Griffin, vice president at OneWeb, sign the Distribution Partner agreement for Hughes to provide OneWeb Low Earth Orbit satellite connectivity services to global airlines and select partners.

Press Release: Hughes launches OneWeb LEO IFC to airlines worldwide

Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, and OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, today announced a Distr... Continue Reading

Rendering of the Viasat-3 satellite, operated by Viasat, in space

Viasat begins integrating Inmarsat, assures that VARs are valued

Viasat and Inmarsat remained competitors up and until the moment that Viasat’s acquisition of the London-headquartered satellite operator of... Continue Reading

A Boeing 777 is sitting at the gate at night. Image: Stellar Blu

Press Release: Boeing to evaluate Stellar Blu ESA for open terminal

Stellar Blu Solutions (Stellar Blu), a supplier of next generation satellite communications technology, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes have... Continue Reading

GX antenna hardware atop a Qatar Airways jet in the hangar

Viasat aero footprint sees vast expansion as Inmarsat purchase closes

Eighteen months after Viasat entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inmarsat, and a week after receiving the European Commission’s f... Continue Reading

A man is using his laptop in business class on a Singapore Airlines SIA flight

Press Release: SIA offers complimentary Wi-Fi across cabins

Singapore Airlines (SIA) customers will enjoy the most comprehensive free unlimited Wi-Fi access in the airline industry from 1 July 2023, w... Continue Reading

Handshake of two business people in the office.

Press Release: Viasat acquisition of Inmarsat proceeds to close

Viasat Inc., a global communications company, and Inmarsat, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, today ann... Continue Reading

The top of a JSX aircraft shows the connectivity antenna for the aircraft. It operates SpaceX starlink connectivity.

SpaceX teases disruption with frictionless Wi-Fi

As SpaceX customer JSX offers its passengers a complimentary — and notably, a frictionless and portal-free — streaming class of Internet ser... Continue Reading

A man and a woman are working on connected devices in a private aircraft. An unlimited data plan is now available to Vista customers.

Press Release: Raytheon to bring unlimited data plan to Vista customers

Raytheon Technologies’ Collins Aerospace business today announced its plan to bring unlimited data to the customers of Vista, a leading priv... Continue Reading

SmartSky LITE antenna system is being installed on the underbelly of the aircraft.

Press Release: SmartSky STC covers streaming LITE system on Lear 60

SmartSky Networks, the leading provider of inflight air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity for business aviation, today announced it has been gran... 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

Delta versus Alaska on each carrier’s Boeing 737-900ER

With US airlines offering generous ticket flexibility in a post-Covid world, I find myself splitting trips between multiple airlines more th... Continue Reading