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Spirit Airlines A320 basking in the San Juan sunshine, parked and ready to board

Spirit Wi-Fi impresses in nearly every way, except price

Eager to experience spring break in Miami for the first time, a college friend and I decided to book a cheap and cheerful roundtrip from Bal... Continue Reading

A350 in Airbus livery in-flight at the Dubai Airshow

SPI confirms “recent changes” to Airbus HBCplus Ku program

Airbus appears to be rethinking its linefit strategy for the dual-beam electronically steered antenna (ESA)-based Safran Passenger Innovatio... Continue Reading

A Southwest 737 MAX parked and ready to board. The aircraft is in Southwest's signature dark blue, yellow and red livery. The IFC antenna hump is in view, installed atop the fuselage. A Spirit A320 can be seen in the background. Anuvu

Southwest Airlines puts building blocks in place for free Wi-Fi

Passengers are going to demand free inflight Wi-Fi “faster” than most people think, Southwest Airlines’ Matthew Kiesel predicted during a po... Continue Reading

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#PaxEx Podcast: ThinKom tackles the tough questions as IFC evolves

Welcome to the #PaxEx Podcast, which tracks the evolution of the airline passenger experience and aviation’s sustainability initiative... Continue Reading

Connections around planet Earth viewed from space at night, cities connected around the globe by shiny lines, international travel or global business finance, world connectivity, elements from NASA

Press Release: Passengers see hyper-connected future, Viasat reveals

Viasat, Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, today announced the findings of its 2024 Passenger Experience Survey, highlightin... Continue Reading

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Press Release: Eve and Thales enter partnership to develop eVTOL

Eve UAM, LLC, an Embraer company, and Thales, a global technology leader providing solutions, services and products in the defence, aeronaut... Continue Reading

Hanwha Phasor phased array antenna on display at Satellite 2022

Hanwha Phasor touts in-house chip work as key differentiator for ESA

Hanwha Systems sees aero as its “main target” for the active phased array antenna technology and IP it acquired when it bought Phasor Soluti... Continue Reading

BA’s EAN: 1.5 Mbps just doesn’t cut it in 2022

Prior to the pandemic, British Airways’ provision of the hybrid air-to-ground/S-band satellite European Aviation Network-powered inflight co... Continue Reading

Aircraft on takeoff with a beautiful sky and fluffy clouds

Intelsat eyes small MEO constellation for hybrid aero service

Intelsat is eyeing the launch of a small MEO satellite constellation with the aim of supporting a multi-orbit network strategy for aviation,... Continue Reading

The exterior of the Air France Airbus aircraft at the gate.

Air France onboard experience impresses on short flights

Living in New York has spoiled me in the sense that I can typically enjoy nonstop flights to many of the destinations I visit. Occasionally,... Continue Reading

Digitally-defined small satellite factory is pictured here. It is a large open space with bright white floors, walls and ceiling. There are blue fixtures in the space as well.

Press Release: Boeing debuts small satellite production facility

Boeing unveiled a new high-throughput small satellite production, integration and test facility designed for efficiency and rapid delivery t... Continue Reading

China Airlines taps Inmarsat and SITA for A321neo onboard Internet

When images started emerging late last year of China Airlines’ first new Airbus A321neo and its interiors, industry stakeholders and travele... Continue Reading

Intelsat makes aircraft linefit gains, secures connectivity wins

Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis in commercial aviation, Intelsat in the last 18 months secured new inflight connectivity... Continue Reading

Delta A330-900neo suite is pictured here. The seat is blue with a much darker blue headrest and the outer thermoplastics and details are light grey, There are headphones hanging in the suite and bedding on the seat.

Delta One suite aboard the A330neo remains solid PaxEx choice

After years of frustrating Zoom, Teams, RingCentral, Webex and other virtual meetings, I was thrilled to finally have a chance to travel for... Continue Reading

Global comms rendering. The earth is surrounded by bright dots, representing satellites. OKAPI:Orbits

Press Release: Viasat, Inmarsat reach agreement with UK Government

Viasat and Inmarsat, the US and UK satellite communications groups, have agreed on a package of legally-binding economic undertakings with t... Continue Reading