List/Grid Tag Archives: GX Aviation
EAD Aerospace announces EASA STC for GX on Airbus A320
EAD Aerospace, an Eclipse company, has received final EASA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for the Inmarsat GX fuselage-mounted satcom antenna installation on the Airbus A319 CEO, A320 CEO and NEO,…
AIX: Rockwell Collins gaining useful experience with GX Aviation
Rockwell Collins is using the experience gained through its Inmarsat GX Aviation installs with Air Astana to help with future applications. Air Astana now has Inmarsat’s Ka-band GX Aviation inflight…
AIX: Inmarsat signs MoU with Turkish Technic / HAVELSAN
Inmarsat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkish Technic and HAVELSAN on integrated inflight connectivity and entertainment solutions. As part of the collaboration, the three companies will offer a…
AIX: Kuwait Airways selects Inmarsat GX for new Airbus fleet
Kuwait Airways has selected Inmarsat’s GX Aviation high-speed inflight broadband connectivity and has extended its partnership with SITAONAIR. SITAONAIR is to deploy its Internet ONAIR portal and Mobile ONAIR services…
AIX: Inmarsat says GX Aviation IFC is getting ‘rave reviews’
Inmarsat now has more than 250 GX Aviation inflight connectivity installs under its belt with 1,300 aircraft in the backlog. The 250th aircraft to be equipped was for Air New…
AIX: Inmarsat celebrates 250th installation of GX Aviation IFC
Inmarsat has announced a major milestone for its Ka-band GX Aviation broadband inflight connectivity service, after completing its 250th installation with airlines worldwide. GX Aviation has now been installed on…
Emirates wins three Passenger Choice Awards at APEX Asia
Emirates received three Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Inflight Wi-Fi in the Middle East, Best Entertainment in the Middle East, and the Best Overall Experience in the Middle East…
Inmarsat: ‘Double-digit’ aviation growth, but dividend cut
Inmarsat has reported “double-digit” growth for its aviation business in its final-year 2017 results, but has cut its total dividend to 20 cents a share in order to boost investment…
Indonesia’s Citilink to equip aircraft with Inmarsat GX
Indonesian low-cost carrier Citilink is to equip its fleet with Inmarsat’s GX Aviation Ka-band inflight connectivity service. Citilink is a low-cost airline headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, established in 2001 as…
Satcom Direct marks decade as partner for SwiftBroadband
Satcom Direct (SD) is celebrating 10 years of partnership with global mobile satellite communications business Inmarsat. The milestone anniversary, which acknowledges SD’s support of the SwiftBroadband service, was announced to…
Eurowings Airbus fleet to get Inmarsat GX from this month
The Eurowings Airbus fleet is to get the airline’s WINGS Connect inflight connectivity service from February. This will allow Eurowings passengers to go online during the flight, surf the Internet…
AIME event underlines importance of Middle East market
This week’s Aircraft Interiors Middle East (AIME) in Dubai highlighted the importance of inflight connectivity in the region. A record number of 4,541 trade visitors attending the two-day event at…
Inflight connectivity to create $5.2bn market in ME by 2035
Inflight connectivity has the potential to unlock a $5.2 billion market within the Middle East region by 2035, according to new data released today from the “Sky High Economics: Quantifying…
Air Astana completes IFC installs across Boeing 767 fleet
Air Astana says it has completed the installation of an in-flight broadband communication system on its second Boeing 767 aircraft. The new service is available to both Business and Economy…
SIA launches new Airbus A380 with SITAONAIR GX connectivity
Singapore Airlines hit a milestone in late December with the intercontinental launch of its brand-new Airbus A380, which was line-fit with SITAONAIR’s inflight connectivity powered by Inmarsat’s Ka-band GX Aviation….
Mobile ONAIR celebrates 10 years of inflight cellular data
SITAONAIR is celebrating a decade since the first ever inflight cellular data transmission and the birth of Mobile ONAIR. Since that initial transmission was made on an Airbus A318 flight…
Satcom Direct launches new SLAs for Inmarsat Jet ConneX
Business aviation connectivity specialist Satcom Direct (SD) has launched a new Service Level Agreement (SLA) programme to support its Inmarsat Jet ConneX customers, with plans to expand to other platforms…
Are UK passengers prepared to pay for inflight Wi-Fi?
Recent survey findings from the “World Travel Market London 2017 Industry Report” suggest that UK passengers might not be as keen to pay for inflight Wi-Fi access as has been…
