CommercialQatar Gets Better In-flight Weather [Avionics Today Feb. 18, 2014] Qatar Airways has signed a five-year agreement with Boeing to upgrade the weather monitoring abilities of its commercial aircraft fleet. The upgrade, called the Boeing Wind Updates service,…
ATM ModernizationMoving Towards a Single European Sky [Avionics Today Feb. 14, 2014] Europe features one of the most congested and complex airspaces in the world, with 28 different major airspace navigation service providers managing 26,000 flights per day. The…
Business & GAGogo Biz Achieves In-flight Wi-Fi Milestone Aircell, Gogo's business aviation group, has surpassed 2,000 Gogo Biz system installations. Gogo Biz was first introduced June 2009, to bring Gogo's in-flight connectivity service to business jets. According to Gogo,…
Business & GAWestJet’s 737 Fleet Gets Connected Canadian airline WestJet signed a multi-year agreement with Panasonic Avionics to add wireless satellite-based in-flight connectivity to its fleet of Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. Under the agreement, Panasonic will provide stored…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman Provides Military Navigation Systems The U.S. Air Force issued a purchase and sustainment contract to Northrop Grumman potentially worth $200 million for its suite of Embedded Global Positioning/Internal Navigation Systems (EGI). Under the contract, Northrop…
CommercialAspen Brings Glass Avionics to Robinson Robinson Helicopter has unveiled a new line of glass instrument panels and avionics for its R22, R44 and R66 helicopters. The new line includes Garmin’s GTN 600/700 touch-screen navigators, as well…
CommercialAegean Airlines Upgrades With Lufthansa Aegean Airlines, the largest airline in Greece, is upgrading its fleet wide flight procedures with a Lufthansa Systems package, including a five-year contract for the Lido/Flight flight planning solution, as well as…
ATM ModernizationNATS’ ‘Pioneering Deal’ Redoes Radar Sites NATS, the U.K.'s Air Traffic Control (ATC) firm, has signed a "pioneering deal" with two wind turbine developers, SSE and Vattenfall, that has secured enough funding to modify two Raytheon manufactured radar…