Experts pour cold water on drone delivery service
A number of aviation industry experts and observers today scoffed at the announcement that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plans to launch a drone-bas... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: inflight services
Boeing to offer inflight connectivity on 787
Boeing plans to offer inflight connectivity on its 787-8 in under a year, after making two connectivity solutions offerable on the new 787-9... Continue Reading
Plane People: JetBlue’s Jenny Dervin
Jenny Dervin makes her job as VP corporate communications for JetBlue Airways look easy. And there’s a reason for that. “Our culture, our br... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: If premium for SIA disappears
Airlines over time build up reputations for superior service and garner passenger preference. But over time, consumer preferences change, an... Continue Reading
Inflight voice call debate is red herring
Airline passengers have responded with outrage to the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to propose expanding inflight connectivit... Continue Reading
Southwest to offer captioning on wireless IFE
NEWPORT BEACH: Southwest Airlines will be among the first carriers in the United States to introduce closed captioning to its wireless video... Continue Reading
IFE firms lament how seat makers manage their data
Major inflight entertainment companies are bemoaning the pace at which seat manufacturers are processing their IFE parts data in order to br... Continue Reading
VIDEO: Closed captioning is coming to inflight entertainment
Southwest Airlines has listened to its passengers, and says it will offer closed captioning (CC) on its wireless IFE solution beginning in e... Continue Reading
Chinese-made aircraft interiors to feature in Boeing catalog
Twelve months after Boeing started working with AVIC to assist the Chinese manufacturer in expanding its capabilities to include aircraft in... Continue Reading
An 11-abreast Emirates A380 may ride on new interior
Inch by inch, row by row, Airbus and Boeing are making their cash coffers grow by squeezing more economy class seats into their widebody air... Continue Reading
Offering gate-to-gate wi-fi to passengers may be easier said than done
US airlines are scrambling to submit their applications to the FAA to secure permission to offer passengers the ability to use personal elec... Continue Reading
Lufthansa does not support Airbus campaign for 18″ seat width standard
Lufthansa is not throwing its support behind Airbus’ campaign to make 18 inches the standard for seat width on long-haul aircraft. With resp... Continue Reading
Will Gogo face competitive disadvantage if it doesn’t reengineer system?
Now that the FAA has cleared a path for airlines to enable passenger use of electronic devices during all phases of flight, inflight Wi-Fi p... Continue Reading
VIDEO: Gogo gets a grilling on new inflight Text & Talk service
Gogo has unveiled a new inflight Text & Talk service that allows passengers to send text messages and make voice calls in-flight using t... Continue Reading
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