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Articles tagged with: In Flight
Cell phone calls failed to reach wayward pilots
Controllers tried to reach wayward Northwest pilots by cell phone after flight failed to land more
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Video Competes with In-Flight Broadband for Airline Passenger Spending
.. to market research and consultancy firm In-Stat. While this service is more established than in-flight broadband, usage revenues are still anticipated to nearly double in 2009 to reach almost a quarter of a billion dollars, nearly five times more
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Nearly 800 Planes Will Feature In-Flight Broadband by the End of 2009
..ult, broadband hungry airline passengers will generate over $47 million worldwide in 2009. The in-flight broadband market is still emerging and will grow well beyond $1 billion annually by 2012. "The market is clearly gaining momentum, with depl more
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Alaska Airlines Sees Sucess in Wi-Fi Trials
Alaska Airlines has published the initial results of its in-flight Wi-Fi service trial, which was launched in February. More than 2,100 passengers logged on and used Alaska Airlines Inflight Wi-Fi. Of those passengers who tried the service and completed a survey during or after their flight, more than 96 percent intend to use it again. Alaska Airlines says that it will begin evaluating pricing models for the service and will continue to gather feedback from customers. more
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Passenger In-Flight Mobile Use Exceeds 40% on Malaysia Airlines
Passengers on Malaysia Airlines are proving some of the world's most enthusiastic users of in-flight mobiles as they embrace the AeroMobile service. On some flights, passenger adoption has exceeded 40%. Data devices such as Blackberry are proving popular, with data traffic on some flights exceeding 2MB, the equivalent of 40 Blackberry users sending and receiving email. more
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10,000th Airline Trip with In-Flight Mobile Phone Service
..ckly our operations are expanding across a variety of markets. The feedback from in-flight experience shows that phone use inside aircraft does not create any discomfort to passengers - we have not heard of one single complaint. In addition, we more
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One Year Anniversary of In-Flight Phone Calls for Emirates Airlines
One year ago, the first in-flight commercial mobile phone call was made on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Casablanca - and since 160,170 passengers have switched their phone on during a flight to make calls or send text messages. more
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Ryanair Offers In-Flight Phone Calls
European low-cost airline, Ryanair has launched an in-flight mobile phone service initially onboard 20 of its, mainly Ireland based aircraft. This is the first step in fitting Ryanair's entire fleet of over 170 aircraft to allow all passengers to make and receive mobile calls and texts on all Ryanair flights. more
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UK Airline Tests SMS Service on London-Moscow Flights
UK based airline, BMI has announced that it is to start trials of in-flight text messaging from mobile phones on flights between London and Moscow. The service, which is being supplied by OnAir, is being trialled for six months on a single Airbus A320 aircraft operating between Heathrow and Moscow. more
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EMS Buys In-Flight Wireless Internet Provider
..ement to acquire Formation, Inc., a provider of airborne wireless network products that enable in-flight passenger communications with terrestrial and satellite networks. EMSÃ's purchase price for Formation is $40 million, with the acquired co more
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