CommercialFinnair to Use ARINC Message System Finnish airline Finnair is using ARINC’s seatback SMS/e-mail messaging service on its newest Airbus A340 aircraft used on Asian routes. Financial terms were not disclosed. The service is operational on Finnair’s two…
CommercialRockwell Collins, Panasonic Team Up Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forest, Calif., formed a business relationship with Rockwell Collins to provide enhanced passenger control while viewing route maps and point-of-interest media libraries. The partnership will combine Rockwell Collins’s…
CommercialAmerican Airlines Selects Inflight Canada American Airlines will use an in-flight entertainment (IFE) and in-seat power systems by Inflight Canada for its Boeing 767-300 refurbishment project currently under way. Financial terms were not disclosed. Inflight Canada, based…
Business & GALynuxWorks, TTTech Cooperate LynuxWorks is working with Austria-based TTTech Computertechnik, a supplier of time-triggered technologies, to combine certain development tasks between their products to “assist developers in the migration of prototype safety-critical avionics applications to…
CommercialHoneywell Signs $16 Billion A350 Pact Honeywell said it won a $16 billion contract to provide major mechanical systems for Airbus’s new long-range, wide-body A350 aircraft. Honeywell said it is the largest systems and equipment package Airbus has…
MilitaryRockwell Collins Wins Data Link Deal Rockwell Collins said it was selected by Raytheon Missile Systems to design, develop and produce its Strike Common Weapon Data Link Program. Under the $18 million contract, Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,…
Business & GAFAA Picks ATO CEO The FAA named United Airlines executive Henry P. Krakowski as CEO of the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), effective Oct. 1. ATO has responsibility for FAA’s transition to the Next Generation Air…
Business & GAICG Picked for Dassault Falcon International Communications Group, Newport News, Va., said Dassault Falcon selected it to provide Iridium satellite communication systems and handsets as optional equipment for the Falcon family of aircraft. Products available for installation…