Based in London, Alan is Europe & Middle East correspondent at Air Transport World.
A daily newspaper journalist in the UK and Middle East for 15 years, he then joined the UK's most successful corporate publishing company before setting up his own company in 2004. He has worked with ATW since 2014.
The inflight connectivity (IFC) industry’s greatest challenge is facing “insatiable demand” for capacity and currently limited ability to grow, one of the sector’s leaders said at AIX in Hamburg June 14.
Panasonic Avionics hopes that the lower weight of its new seatback connectivity system means that it will be installed on regional aircraft and narrowbodies as well as IFE systems’ more traditional home of widebody platforms.
Long-range narrowbodies are destined to retreat to a relatively narrow range of routes once the market recovers sufficiently for widebody fleets to fully return to service, an audience at AIX heard June 14.
