Commercial10 Airlines That Made Electric and Hydrogen-powered Aircraft Investments, Partnerships in 2021 Numerous airlines made strides towards reducing carbon emissions and investing in next generation air transportation technologies in 2021. Several airlines, including Virgin Atlantic, GOL, and Japan Airlines have pre-ordered electric vertical take-off…
ConnectivityJapan Airlines Completes Trial of Unconnected In-flight Mobile Device Meal Ordering Software Japan Airlines (JAL) has completed a pilot project testing the use of a real-time database that allows passenger mobile devices to synchronize data in real-time "even without internet connectivity," according to Ditto,…
Air TaxiJapan Airlines Joins Growing List of Future Avolon eVTOL Orders Under a new partnership signed with Dublin, Ireland-based aircraft leasing company Avolon, Japan Airlines (JAL) will have the right to purchase or lease up to 50 Vertical VA-X4 electric vertical takeoff and…
CommercialJapan Airlines to Upgrade Boeing 767 Flight Displays Japan Airlines (JAL) is upgrading its Boeing 767-300 fleet with drop-in liquid crystal displays (LCD) supplied by Thomas Global Systems, according to a new announcement from the Sydney, Australia-based avionics maker. The…
CommercialJapan Airlines Continues Effort to Enable Future Drone Delivery Operations Japan Airlines (JAL) has established a new agreement with Matternet to evaluate future opportunities for the use of drones to provide healthcare deliveries, the latest in the carrier’s efforts to use unmanned…