Engineers install Honeywell Aero hardware for GX Aviation. Photo: Inmarsat

Honeywell Aerospace is entering the airlines cabin services market as a value-added reseller for Inmarsat‘s GX Aviation in-flight broadband service, to broaden its global customer network. Honeywell will remain the exclusive provider of the company’s JetWave hardware and GoDirect software and services.

As part of the move, Honeywell and Inmarsat will continue to work closely on pursuing new customers and serving existing ones in the satellite communications space. With the growth of Inmarsat’s GX Aviation Ka-Band high-speed, in-flight Wi-Fi service in recent years, Inmarsat and Honeywell aim to create a large, installed base.

Honeywell recently seen success in the business jet sector, where it has seen greater than 300 percent growth in subscribers in its cabin services offering over the past 18 months. Honeywell will continue to sell both hardware and GoDirect Connected Aircraft services to airlines, as well as continue to provide and support JetWave hardware to Inmarsat’s value-added resellers.