Airlines tighten contracts for portable wifi as they eye IFC upgrade
When airlines began adopting all-in-one portable wireless entertainment solutions, the initial contracts being sought were roughly five year... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: portable IFE
Panasonic Avionics stays focused on serving its niche in IFE
Outside of inflight connectivity, the most hotly competitive part of the inflight entertainment industry right now must surely be the portab... Continue Reading
Press Release: Cobalt Air’s portable wireless IFE goes live
Cobalt Air, Cyprus’ expanding airline, has enhanced its onboard experience for all its passengers with the introduction of in-flight enterta... Continue Reading
Podcast 057: Airline content trends and new lav concepts revealed
Welcome to episode 057 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest is Maryann Simson, who has been active in the #PaxEx media world for nearly a decade... Continue Reading
AirFi on why doing only one thing well in IFE is not good enough anymore
Wireless inflight entertainment systems, whether retrofitted to aircraft or carried on board in portable boxes, have served a number of role... Continue Reading
IFEC revolution set to take untapped markets by storm
Single-aisle aircraft equipped with some form of inflight entertainment and/or connectivity solution now outnumber those equipped with neith... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: The state of inflight entertainment, past, present and future
This is an Op-Ed contribution from Laurent Safar, the CEO of Adaptive, which provides mobile inflight entertainment to airlines. Today’s con... Continue Reading
New clients in the offing, Lufthansa Systems is primed for market shift
Wireless IFE provider Lufthansa Systems is gearing up to announce deals with no fewer than three more airlines, Jan-Peter Gaense, director p... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Systems talks current and future connectivity, integration
With plans proceeding apace for European inflight Internet and streaming entertainment systems, including a fleetwide rollout of the latter ... Continue Reading
Press Release: digEcor appoints new VP operations to aid expansion
digEcor is delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Forbes as VP Operations. Forbes will be based in the Australian head office in Bris... Continue Reading
With PED fire events on the rise, will containment kits take off?
In the wake of the recent Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fire on board a Southwest Airlines flight (the device has since been banned by the DOT), and... Continue Reading
From IoT of freighters to IFE, Kontron on its irons in the fire
During the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in April, German multinational company Kontron indicated a strong interest in playing an important ... Continue Reading
Press Release: 70-plus Eurowings planes get BoardConnect Portable
As of August 1, Eurowings passengers have been able to enjoy premier entertainment on their own smartphones and tablets, including over 400 ... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Systems wireless options pitched as upgradeable family
As wireless inflight connectivity and inflight entertainment matures, airlines that have not yet made a wireless provider decision are looki... Continue Reading
Room for another seatback IFE player? digEcor on why it jumped in
Even as the world’s widebody and narrowbody fleets are gradually being fitted with inflight connectivity – or earmarked for such – sea... Continue Reading
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