Passengers flying across the Pacific Ocean are set for a major upgrade in inflight connectivity performance. Panasonic Avionics and Eutelsat announced this week that Eutelsat 172b is now in service, delivering a massive increase in…
Big order wins, financial losses for Global Eagle’s…
The write-offs for Global Eagle in 2017 are significant. The company reported its year-end financials this week and included a non-cash impairment charge of $184 million in the connectivity segment. That represented more than half…
Gilat goes cuckoo for Ku-Ka
Trade shows bring out new hardware launches and the recent Satellite Show 2018 was no exception. Among the many vendors showing off new wares, Israeli inflight connectivity hardware provider Gilat launched its AeroEdge 6000 dual-band…
New Chairman, CEO, funding for Global Eagle
After taking nearly a year to unwind the complexity of its financials following a string of acquisitions Global Eagle is finally ready to move forward on executing its plan. To that end the content, connectivity,…
Panasonic, APSATCOM announce "XTS" satellite plans
Years in the offing, some details on Panasonic Avionics' first "eXtreme Throughput Satellite" (XTS) are finally known. The global inflight communications and entertainment provider will team with Chinese satellite operator APSATCOM on the launch of…
Connectivity Revenue: Where does American’s shift leave Gogo?
In last week's earnings call Gogo indicated that expected service revenue for its North America Commercial Aviation segment would be flat YoY in 2018. Considering the impending loss of some 400 American Airlines aircraft from…
Seamless Air Alliance hopes to deliver frictionless inflight…
What is keeping consumers from spending more time (and money) online while in the air? Even when connectivity is free plenty of travelers stay offline in flight, suggesting that other factors play into that decision.…
Shifting gears: Gogo’s push to connect more passengers
What good is having an inflight wifi connectivity product if no one is using it? For the past few years Gogo worked to keep take rates on its platform limited. Prices were high, in part,…
Iberia’s first A350 sports a new radome
This week's edition of "What's under that radome?" comes to us from Toulouse, where Iberia's first A350-900 broke cover. The carrier shared a few photos on Twitter and the aircraft is sporting a line-fit radome…