Passengers on BA’s all-business ‘Club World London City’ service from London City to New York JFK can use their mobile device to send and receive text messages and emails in-flight and access the Internet. The in-flight connectivity service is provided by OnAir. Adding a new feature to the service, BA has become the launch customer [...]

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Tnooz reports that Australian low-cost carrier Jetstar is the first airline in the world to announce a pilot project to give passengers a new Apple iPad for in-flight entertainment. The trial, beginning later in June 2010, is not driven entirely by a slurp of the iPad Kool Aid – passengers will have to fork out $Aus 10 [...]

Emirates has won the ‘World’s Best Airline In-flight Entertainment’ award for the sixth year running at the 2010 Skytrax World Airline Awards. Emirates faced stiff competition from other leading airlines to win the accolade in Hamburg. In an extremely competitive marketplace where many airlines are spending significant sums in their in-flight entertainment (IFE) products, Emirates [...]

Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic), the world leader in state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) systems, received a Crystal Cabin award yesterday at the annual Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany. Panasonic was honored in the industrial design category for its Integrated Smart Monitor.  The Integrated Smart Monitor was born of a groundbreaking collaboration with Weber Aircraft [...]

Alaska Airlines launched Aircell’s Gogo inflight Internet service Tuesday on six 737-800s and plans to expand the service to its entire fleet by the end of 2010. The airline said it is partnering with Alaska Airlines Visa Signature Card to offer passengers free Wi-Fi through July 31. Gogo will be installed on its fleet of [...]

Bluebox Avionics, a company that offers in-flight entertainment products to airlines, said this week that it will start delivering its service on Apple’s iPad in July. Dubbed Bluebox Ai, the company’s in-flight entertainment will run on iPads given to travelers to use while on the plane. Through iPads with Bluebox Ai, passengers can watch “first-run” movies, [...]

Read this very interesting guest post written by Toms Purgailis on SimplyFlying.com : A big part of travelers bring their laptops and smart-phones with them on-board for ground activities but use airline’s provided in-flight entertainment system (IFE) to kill the time during flight. No-brainer that such a system is not the most effective as hundreds [...]

How much are you willing to pay for your inflight internet connection ? Is the business model sustainable for airlines ? Joe Sharkey tries to give some answers in his New York Times article : EVERYBODY wants to be connected, and most major airlines in the United States have made bets that in-flight Wi-Fi Internet [...]

Aircell, the company offering the Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service on many airlines, will launch an in-flight video downloading service later this year. Users will be able to download a movie or TV show for a fee to a laptop while on a flight, making use of the Gogo Wi-Fi connection, said Eric Lemond, director of [...]