Interiors & Connectivity

Delta Air Lines will begin including meals at no extra cost for all main cabin seats on 12 transcontinental domestic routes this spring, reversing a longstanding trend of US airlines not including meal service with economy-class tickets on domestic flights.

Qatar Airways is set to unveil its new business-class seat at ITB Berlin on March 8.

West African flag carrier Air Cote d’Ivoire has signed up for inflight passenger connectivity services from air transport IT specialist SITAONAIR.

Satellite communications provider Inmarsat has completed testing and validation of its European Aviation Network (EAN) Satellite Access Station (SAS), which will enable airline passengers throughout Europe to have improved onboard connectivity.

Lufthansa Group is aiming to offer passengers service “personalized on a silver tray” by utilizing “predictive analytics” to determine what offerings individual customers want, a senior executive said.

Lufthansa unveiled the first of 25 Airbus A350-900s Feb. 2 in Munich after Lufthansa Technik completed the cabin installation.

Lufthansa Group is aiming to offer passengers service “personalized on a silver tray” by utilizing “predictive analytics” to determine what offerings individual customers want, a senior executive said.

Lufthansa unveiled the first of 25 Airbus A350-900s Feb. 2 in Munich after Lufthansa Technik completed the cabin installation.

The Intelsat 33e satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and entered service on Jan. 29, providing enterprise-grade connectivity for aviation.

GOL plans to finish installing the Gogo 2Ku inflight connectivity system in its Boeing 737-800s by October 2018, Marco Gallinaro, the airline’s maintenance manager, said.

American Airlines has decided against installing seatback video screens on its incoming fleet of Boeing 737 MAXs.

Oman Air is refreshing its first-class cabins on board three of its Airbus A330-300s.

Combined, the companies will have a system portfolio spanning the entire aircraft.

American Airlines has decided against installing seatback video screens on its incoming fleet of Boeing 737 MAXs.

The second 702 satellite built by Boeing for Bermuda-based communication satellite operator ABS went into service Jan. 21.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that a total of 10 atomic clocks on its Galileo constellation of satellites have failed.

Focus on the “Project Performance Pyramid”—people, processes and proactivity—was key to the airline’s success.

French aerospace firm Safran has revealed it is in exclusive negotiations to acquire seating and cabin interior manufacturer Zodiac Aerospace, in a deal that would rank it as the third largest aerospace firm.

MIT’s unconventional D8 configuration gets more conventional as Aurora Flight Sciences works to turn the fuel-saving concept into a practical product.

JetBlue said it has finished installing Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, about three years after its first connected aircraft took to the skies.

Honeywell has achieved European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its JetWave high-speed satellite communications equipment on the Airbus A319.

Lufthansa Group said it plans to become the “most digital aviation group” in 2017, chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr said at the company’s digital aviation forum Jan. 10.

Lufthansa Group plans to equip all 227 narrowbody aircraft in the fleets of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings with broadband internet access within the next 15 months.

Germany has completed the integration of civil and military air traffic management (ATM) throughout its airspace.

United Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER Dec. 21.