Breeze Airways issues RFP to serve international markets with A220s
US start-up Breeze Airways confirms it has issued a request for proposals on Routes’ community platform, Route Exchange, seeking to se... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Streaming IFE
United brings back embedded IFE under massive narrowbody overhaul
Way back at the 2014 APEX Exhibition in Long Beach, California, United Airlines’ then managing director of passenger systems, Tarek Ab... Continue Reading
Press Release: Saying Goodbye to American Way
American Airlines began filling its seatbacks with American Way — launched as The American Way — in 1966. Since then, the inflight magazine ... Continue Reading
SmartSky plans to launch nextgen ATG service this summer
After grappling with delays, nextgen air-to-ground inflight connectivity provider SmartSky Networks this summer plans to launch service in t... Continue Reading
Press Release: Middle East Airlines taps Panasonic for IFEC on 15 A321s
Panasonic Aviations has been selected by Middle East Airlines-Air Liban (MEA) to provide inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) solu... Continue Reading
Zip Air debuts 787 cabin: is this really a LCC or JAL Lite?
Japan Airlines’ start-up subsidiary Zip Air Tokyo was officially named to evoke the speed and efficiency of traveling long-haul on an airlin... Continue Reading
Inmarsat expects to render IFC competitors irrelevant with GX buildout
It is now a largely undisputed notion that both the free Viasat-powered streaming connectivity service on JetBlue Airways and the paid broad... Continue Reading
JetBlue selects Thales AVANT IFE for future fleet of Airbus A220-300s
It’s an interesting time for the embedded inflight entertainment market, with some airlines preferring to embrace a BYOD-only model for thei... Continue Reading
Press Release: Inflight Dublin launches next-gen Everhub portable server
Inflight Dublin, a global provider of inflight entertainment and wireless solutions, has announced the launch of their next-generation Everh... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Systems aims for integration future, away from wireless IFE
Lufthansa Systems is pivoting away from focusing on its BoardConnect onboard streaming IFE product, and is repositioning itself as an IT sys... Continue Reading
Room for improvement in first class on Alaska Boeing 737-900
With its fantastic earnings rates and miles flown-based status chart, Alaska Airlines’ loyalty program is one of the best out there th... Continue Reading
Thinking through a realistic wishlist for Eurobusiness
Premium travel within Europe is a funny business. Airlines still need it in order to fight for longhaul connecting traffic, but all too ofte... Continue Reading
Ku HTS capacity shows it can pack a punch in-flight
As pressure mounts on airlines to ensure their passengers can use inflight Internet in the same manner as they do on the ground – to complet... Continue Reading
United’s domestic 777 presents mixed bag in economy class
In 2016, United began reconfiguring about a dozen Boeing 777-200 aircraft from international configurations to a new densified domestic vers... Continue Reading
PaxEx odds and ends: Air France’s new USB and download IFE revealed
Since 2015, Air France has been slowly refurbishing its narrowbody Airbus A320 family of aircraft with new B/E Aerospace and Recaro economy ... Continue Reading
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