Focus: Aviation

Flyht Aerospace Solutions announced the sale of its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) and FlyhtLog services to Azur Havacilik (Azur Aviation), based in Antalya, Turkey. The contract is valued...

Philippine Airlines has tasked SITAOnAir to upgrade the airline’s existing Boeing B777 fleet equipped with Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband to Inmarsat’s GX Aviation, as well as line-fit Philippine Airlines’ new Airbus A350s...

Inmarsat will demonstrate its new SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S) solution in a flight trial with Flyht. The evaluation will commence later this year using an experimental trial aircraft that enables a range...

Gogo has announced a new High Throughput Satellite (HTS) service targeting business aviation. The new service will use Gogo’s existing Ku-band satellite network, which currently provides bandwidth for more than...

Jeju Air has become South Korea’s first Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) to adopt SITAOnAir’s Aircom FlightTracker, equipping the carrier to meet the incoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 2018 flight-tracking mandate....

Decisions for airlines making investments in providing in-flight Wi-Fi for passengers are strongly driven by the segment of the industry they operate within, as Via Satellite’s sister publication Avionics learned at the...

Alaska Airlines has selected Gogo’s 2Ku satellite-based Ku-band In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) technology for its fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Installations are scheduled to begin on Alaska’s Boeing 737 aircraft...

Airborne Wireless Network (AWN) has successfully completed a series of flight tests with two Boeing 767-300 jetliners over New Mexico as proof of concept for the company’s proposed air-to-air broadband...

In this video interview at Inmarsat’s head office in London, Inmarsat’s CEO Rupert Pearce talks in-depth about the connected car, and why he thinks this market will be a tougher nut for the satellite industry to crack...

Gogo plans to accelerate installations of its In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) setups on airliners and business jets within the month, expanding its customer base and upgrading existing aircraft installations with new...