Virgin Australia is taking steps to ramp up its product offering on Australia-New Zealand routes, in preparation for increased competition when its partnership with Air New Zealand ends.

Finnair has launched a new high-speed internet service on its European Airbus A320 family flights in a partnership with California-based communications provider Viasat.

The Single European Sky ATM Research Deployment Manager (SESAR DM) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of cooperation July 19, marking the start of a formal collaboration on a new satellite-based communications capability for aviation.

Airbus has unveiled AirSense, an analytics platform offering that fuses ground-, space- and aircraft-based data for precise aircraft tracking and flight route optimization applications.

European leisure specialist TUI Group is considering swapping some of its later Boeing 737 MAX 8 deliveries to the larger MAX 10 and, separately, is performing a series of Wi-Fi evaluations.

Newly rebranded Air Italy will not attempt to copy Qatar Airways’ style, despite the Arab carrier having taken a 49% stake in the company, the Italian carrier’s chief customer experience (CCE) officer said July 18.

Honeywell International has confirmed the first installations of its high-speed JetWave satellite communications hardware in Africa

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Fred Cromer held out the possibility of the company’s Atmosphère cabin being adopted for its Q400 turboprops as he unveiled the new interior fit at the Farnborough Airshow.