Business & GAPlay the Avionics News Quiz of April 8 Hey, you okay under there? Under that huge pile of news and announcements from the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg this week, that is! Let this week’s Avionics News Quiz coax you…
CommercialInmarsat Forms Joint Venture with MCN to Bring Cockpit, Passenger Connectivity to China Inmarsat CEO, Rupert Pearce, and MCN Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Song Zhen, signing an agreement for MCN to become a Global Xpress Value Added Reseller (GX VAR) in China…
CommercialAir France to Equip A330 Fleet with Zodiac IFE Zodiac Aerospace’s Rave IFE system. Photo: Zodiac Aerospace [Avionics Today 04-08-2016] Air France has selected Zodiac Inflight Innovations to install its Rave Centric In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) solution as well as Zodiac Seat…
CommercialANA Signs $60 Million 787 Maintenance Agreement with UTC ANA 787. Photo: Tomoaki INABA (flickr) [Avionics Today 04-07-2016] All Nippon Airways (ANA) has extended its On-Site Support (OSS) agreement with UTC Aerospace Systems for ANA's fleet of Boeing and Airbus aircraft.…
CommercialMalaysa Airlines Signs on as STG Saf-Tsign Launch Customer Saf-Tsign lighting. Photo: STG Aerospace [Avionics Today 04-07-2016] Malaysia Airlines has signed on as the launch customer for STG Aerospace’s saf-Tsign product, which was successfully installed across the airline’s fleet of A380…
ATM ModernizationThe World's Top 10 Busiest Airports [Avionics Today 04-06-2016] To those of us following the FAA's Metroplex redesign efforts in the U.S., it won't come as a surprise that Airports Council International (ACI) ranked the Atlanta-Hartsfield Jackson International…
CommercialAirbus to Retrofit A350 Fleets with Gogo’s 2Ku Airbus A350. Photo: Airbus [Avionics Today 04-06-2016] Gogo has partnered with Airbus subsidiary Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC) to install its satellite-based 2Ku In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) solution on a retrofit basis on…
CommercialGEE Expands Ka-band Capabilities to Airconnect Global Antenna Platform GEE and QEST executives unveil Airconnect Global Ku antenna, the previous iteration of the Ka-band antenna released on April 6. Photo: GEE [Avionics Today 04-06-2016] Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has released a…