In the third part of our Q&A session, Bret Aldieri, senior director of cabin connectivity for Honeywell Aerospace, discusses forward and backward compatibility, how operators obtain JetWave updates and addresses cybersecurity concerns...
Connectivity | by Woodrow Bellamy III
New Standard Promises Airlines More Flexibility When Upgrading In-flight Connectivity — A new in-flight connectivity (IFC) standard, Seamless Release 1.0, has been published by the Seamless Air Alliance to introduce the use of open interfaces such as Hotspot 2.0 and native cellular roaming for the functional components that allow airlines to…
Commercial | by Woodrow Bellamy III
Bombardier CRJ Gets New CRT-to-LCD Cockpit Display Upgrade in TFD-4000 — Bombardier CRJ Series operators have a new cathode ray tube (CRT) to liquid crystal display (LCD) upgrade path available for their ProLine 4 cockpits in the TFD-4000, officially launched by Australian avionics manufacturer Thomas Global Systems, who has also confirmed…
Commercial | by Brian Garrett-Glaser
PODCAST: Talking IFEC With Virgin Atlantic's Mark Cheyney — In this episode of the Global Connected Aircraft podcast, we spoke with Mark Cheyney, Virgin Atlantic’s head of in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) development, for a look at how the airline’s use of connectivity continues to evolve. Cheyney explained Virgin’s…
