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Safety

United Airlines airplanes — one taxiing and one preparing to board at Pittsburgh International Airport. United Airlines is a major international airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Beyond Starlink: What comes next for inflight connectivity?

Closing in on 50 commercial airline customers, SpaceX’s Starlink Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satcom service is hoovering up inflight connectivity ... Continue Reading

Business class on a Boeing 787
Airbus, Boeing flag aircraft seat supply and certification constraints
October 29, 2026
Interior of Boeing 737 MAX
Boeing lowers 737 delivery target, maintains disciplined ramp
October 28, 2026
In the cockpit as Skyband performs a test flight of the M100 solution
Skyband brings Iridium PNT into the cockpit as M100 enters production
October 19, 2026
Business class on a Boeing 787

Airbus, Boeing flag aircraft seat supply and certification constraints

As they ramp up aircraft production, Airbus and Boeing have, respectively, flagged separate concerns about the aircraft seating market, namely, the meager numbe... Continue Reading

Comfort

Inside an Air Astana A321LR. Blue LED lighting creates a calm scene in the cabin

Air Astana equipping A321LRs with SES multi-orbit IFC

Air Astana has been operating in stealth mode to bring SES’s multi-orbit, electronically steerable antenna (ESA)-based inflight connec... Continue Reading

BlueFirst recliners with grey seat covers and dark grey headrets
JetBlue wants BlueFirst seats as fast as Collins can deliver them
October 27, 2026
Safran's ECOs overhead bins
Safran to divest Safran Cabin following notable growth
October 24, 2026
Open terrace at the massive new United Club at Terminal B North Concourse at IAH, with United tails in view
First look at Terminal B North and massive United Club at Houston IAH
October 21, 2026

Connectivity

ThinKom ThinAir Nexxus antenna.

ThinKom eyes Airbus HBCplus modular for Nexus aero antenna

Keen to maximize inflight connectivity optionality for airlines, ThinKom Solutions has designed its new Ka-band multi-orbit ThinAir Nexus ae... Continue Reading

United Airlines airplanes — one taxiing and one preparing to board at Pittsburgh International Airport. United Airlines is a major international airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Beyond Starlink: What comes next for inflight connectivity?
October 31, 2026
Inside an Air Astana A321LR. Blue LED lighting creates a calm scene in the cabin
Air Astana equipping A321LRs with SES multi-orbit IFC
October 30, 2026
A350 in Airbus livery in flight at the Dubai Airshow
Airbus fields interest in HBCplus to support LEO + GEO IFC
October 23, 2026

Services

Interior of Boeing 737 MAX

Boeing lowers 737 delivery target, maintains disciplined ramp

Boeing expects to fall shy of its 500-strong 2026 delivery target for the 737 MAX, and now sees “the back half of 2027” as a rea... Continue Reading

Safran's ECOs overhead bins
Safran to divest Safran Cabin following notable growth
October 24, 2026
ANA Dreamliner in flight as the sun sets
All Nippon Airways leverages Quvia real-time IFC data
October 14, 2026
LATAM E195-E2 outside a hangar at the Embraer factory. The aircraft features a slimline antenna atop its fuselage to support inflight connectivity.
Embraer moves with speed to factory-fit multi-orbit IFC to E2
October 11, 2026

Nose to Tail

British Airways 777-300ER at the gate.

American versus British Airways on the mighty 777-300ER

When it comes to airline partnerships, American Airlines and British Airways are about as tight as it gets. While I typically fly American f... Continue Reading

The SeaPort Pilatus PC-12 aircraft is ready for boarding.
Competitive pricing and time savings make SeaPort a win on PDX-BFI
October 19, 2026
United Airlines 737-800 parked at O'Hare
United Airlines’ marvelous app eases pain of connecting
October 16, 2026
Frontier Airlines A321neo at LAX.
Bungled check-in mars Frontier Airlines experience
October 13, 2026

Press Release Hub

A crowded show floor at AIX

Press Release: Countdown to AIX, the leading aircraft interiors event

The countdown to Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) is on. Returning to Hamburg from Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th April 2027, the world’s le... Continue Reading

Rajiv Kumar Singh, Vice President - Training, Flight Operations, IndiGo, Capt. Ashim Mittra, Senior Vice President - Flight Operations, IndiGo, Jürgen Westermeier, President and MD, Airbus India and South Asia, Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo, Sunny Guglani, Vice President, Commercial Aircraft, Airbus India and South Asia, and Regis Boniau, Head of Customer Services, Airbus India and South Asia, at the announcement of IndiGo signing an agreement with Skywise to deploy the A320 Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT), becoming the first airline worldwide to adopt the VPT abnormal and emergency procedure package, at the Aviation India and South Asia Summit 2026, in New Delhi on November 3, 2026.
Press Release: IndiGo expands digital flight training with Skywise
November 3, 2026
Rendering of RAVE Aerospace's RAVE 5 displays with the firm's new Harmony GUI
Press Release: RAVE brings digital innovation to APEX FTE EXPO
November 3, 2026
Finnair Embraer E195-E2 aircraft in flight.
Press Release: Finnair selects SES multi-orbit IFC for 18 Embraer E2s
November 2, 2026

Lean into Aviation

GIAD event at UK's AirTanker Hub

Girls in Aviation Day drives global effort to change the status quo

For an event that started as an initiative to introduce young girls to aviation, Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD) has grown into an internationa... Continue Reading

Women enter the ICAO Global Gender Summit in Luanda, Angola.
ICAO in push to advance women’s empowerment in aviation
September 5, 2026
Captain Hanan Mohammed Jawad in front of an Emirates 777 and Captain Hanan Mohammed Jawad in front of an Emirates 777
Two Emirati women set the pace as Captains at Emirates
August 1, 2026
Saadia Zahidi, IATA's new Director General. She will assume the role on 1 November.
IATA Board appoints WEF executive Saadia Zahidi as Director General
July 24, 2026