VIDEO: Airframers, suppliers collaborate to shorten lead times for seats
Consumer technology changes every six to 12 months, but the lead times required for bringing new aircraft seats with inflight entertainment ... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: inflight entertainment
Hybrid IFE models emerge to meet airlines’ varying requirements
Nobody doubts that ‘bring your own device’ on board aircraft is a movement that is here to stay (until perhaps we enter a Minority Report-ty... Continue Reading
Boeing urges airlines to be vigilant of cyber security threats
LONDON: Airline bosses ignore cyber security concerns at their peril, and must ensure that thorough mitigation plans are in place to deal wi... Continue Reading
Spafax goes Hollywood to be on forefront of content on-the-go
For the past few decades content service providers (CSPs) have played a pivotal role in bringing entertainment content to IFE systems on boa... Continue Reading
Etihad goes way outside Boeing’s catalog for its first 787-9
EVERETT: As Gulf carriers scramble to one-up each other to create the most opulent and well appointed aircraft interiors, Etihad Airways thi... Continue Reading
Aircraft Interiors Expo and APEX can and will coexist
As recently as 2008, when I attended my first Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX), IFE manufacturers and connectivity solutions providers were onl... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Systems presents seat-back IFE with a twist
If foot traffic around Lufthansa Systems’ booth at the APEX Expo last week was any indication, the company’s new integrated tablet IFE solut... Continue Reading
VIDEO: BAE Systems gets off to a solid start with wireless IFE
As BAE Systems continues to try to break into the inflight entertainment and in-seat power market, a more refined version of its so-called I... Continue Reading
Turkish-made seat set to debut on 737s with Thales IFE
ANAHEIM: Lurking within the large Thales booth at the APEX Expo is a little known seat manufacturer named TSI Aviation Seats. The subsidiary... Continue Reading
Future of IFE is on demand: Par Capital’s Ed Shapiro
ANAHEIM: The future of inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) can best be summed up in two simple words: “on demand”, Pa... Continue Reading
Record labels seek to restructure how music is licensed to airlines
Record labels’ long-running concerns over music licensing abuses in the airline industry have bubbled to the surface in the form of various ... Continue Reading
Contactless EMV payments make sense for iPhone; what about IFE?
As Apple has moved to support contactless EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) payments on the new iPhone 6 via near-field communications (NFC... Continue Reading
Bombardier stays flexible with CSeries cabin; begins fitting testbed
As Bombardier’s CSeries CS100 flight test vehicle, FTV2, returned to skies this week the Canadian airframer confirmed it is adding air... Continue Reading
Air Canada enhances IFE options for visually impaired passengers
Air Canada is further enhancing the entertainment options available for its visually impaired passengers, after becoming the first airline i... Continue Reading
Portable IFE specialist embraces suite of new cabin technologies
How does a supplier of portable IFE players to airlines stay relevant in a world where “bring your own device” is increasingly t... Continue Reading
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