The winners of the Digital Sky Challenge, which imagines solutions to the challenges of modern aviation, were announced during an awards ceremony at the SESAR Innovation Days on 4 December in Athens. Jointly organised by the SESAR JU & ACI EUROPE and hosted by Athens International Airport, the Digital Sky Challenge took place on…
A version of this story appeared first on Forbes.com A troubling string of incidents involving aircraft window failures has caught public attention over the past few weeks, including one where the cockpit windshield of a Sichuan Airlines A319 blew out at 30,000 feet, and the tragic death of a passenger on…
Gogo has introduced its next generation modem into commercial airline service, which delivers more than 16x the throughput Gogo’s existing modem. The company expects the new modem will have more than sufficient throughput to support the next generation of high-throughput satellites as they come online. The new modem includes dual…
Starting day two of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Airbus reveals what it describes as the next revolution in the aerospace industry: data. Today, Airbus becomes Apple for planes through a partnership with Palantir, with Japanese low-cost airlines Peach and Air Asia sharing their experiences as early adopter customers of…
Qatar Airways has announced that it will loan laptops to Business Class flyers travelling on flights to the U.S. affected by the recent electronics ban for these routes.
Inmarsat has completed testing of key satellite infrastructure for its European Aviation Network (EAN), which will deliver high-speed broadband to European flights.
We’d all like more space in our seats, especially when travelling long distances, but it’s not as simple as saying give us more room. We need to consider the processes would we have to undergo as an industry to make that possible and what the cost impact would be to…
