Interiors & Connectivity

Airbus
Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.
Aerospace

By Mark Nensel
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing that airlines and ticket agents should be required to inform prospective customers in advance if an airline allows passengers to make mobile phone calls onboard the aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Dubai-based Emirates expects to roll out a new premium-economy product within the next year to 18 months.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat and Air New Zealand have signed a contract to provide Global Xpress (GX) connectivity—GX for Aviation—across the airline’s long- and short-haul fleets.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Connected Aerospace-Dec. 6, 2016
Interiors & Connectivity

Southern Russia food producer Romark, whose parent company Urozhaynoye has 9,000 hectares under cultivation in the Stavropol eco-region, is opening an office in the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre next month to target the Middle East's onboard catering sector with its La Batata range of crisp veggie health snacks.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Mark Nensel
Chicago-based United Airlines will roll out its new premium business-class product United Polaris in all of the company’s markets Dec. 1.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Mark Nensel
Global air transport IT specialist SITA’s connected aircraft business SITAONAIR will partner with satellite provider Aireon and flight tracking data specialist FlightAware beginning in 2018, the companies announced Nov. 29.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Victoria Moores
Satellite specialist Inmarsat, telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom, mobile phone company Nokia and airline technology firm Thales have completed a program of European Aviation Network (EAN) broadband test flights.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Victoria Moores
Aircraft seating manufacturer Recaro has started construction of a new €13.5 million ($14.3 million) logistics center, located on the site of its German headquarters.
Interiors & Connectivity

Airbus subsidiary NAVBLUE has completed a deal with Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corp. (VATM) to deliver optimized airspace design for Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, to enhance safety and efficiency.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Inflight connectivity specialist Gogo is has secured capacity on the Intelsat 29e satellite, which will provide immediate broadband connectivity for flights over the North Atlantic.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Cabin Interiors-Nov. 17, 2016
Interiors & Connectivity

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission is taking Croatia to the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) for failure to ratify a convention that cements the bloc’s ties with Eurocontrol.
Airports & Networks

Dubai-based Emirates Airline has begun taking delivery of new generation Airbus A380 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, according to a Nov. 15 statement.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Australia’s Qantas Airways, which is rolling out Wi-Fi across its domestic Airbus A330 and Boeing 737-800 fleet over the next two years, has finished installing Wi-Fi on the first of its aircraft—a 737-800.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Mark Nensel
Carlsbad, California-based broadband services company ViaSat has acquired Irish software provider Arconics, the companies announced Nov. 14.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) has delivered the first two of six Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) with a new variable cabin layout to the State Transport Leasing Co.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Mexico City-based Aeromar has signed an order for eight firm ATR -600 series aircraft, comprising six 72-600s and two 42-600s, plus options for six additional 72-600s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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See how Lufthansa is retrofitting its aircraft with GX for Aviation.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Mark Nensel
Avionics and inflight systems company Thales will partner with the UK-based Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) on a jointly funded £20 million ($25 million) research project to explore next generation aircraft communications technology, Thales said Nov. 7.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Mark Nensel
Air China will test Los Angeles-based Global Eagle Entertainment’s (GEE) inflight entertainment (IFE) and connectivity service on an Air China Boeing 777 aircraft, the two companies announced Nov. 1.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Linda Blachly
Connectivity-Nov. 1, 2016
Interiors & Connectivity