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Articles tagged with: In Flight and Onair
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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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
Related Tags: european-commission, eu, roaming, vodafone, aircraft, ryanair, Ireland
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
Related Tags: base-station, sms, text-messaging, rsa, aircraft, text-messages, london, satellite, bmi, UK
US Airlines Face Competition Challenge to Delivering In-Flight Communications
... airlines may be at a competitive disadvantage as European carriers move forward on plans for in-flight Internet connectivity and communication services on-board passenger aircraft, concluded a panel of industry experts at a National Press Clu more
Related Tags: text-messaging, blackberry, compete, aircraft, satellite, federal-communications-commission, air-france, USA
In-Flight Mobile Phones May Not be Economically Viable
A new report from TMF Associates forecasts that widespread deployment of in-flight cellular services could be limited to those airlines who can justify investment in passenger connectivity as a service differentiator, since many airlines may be unable to demonstrate a compelling direct return on investment in these services. more
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Two Airlines to Trial In-Flight Cellphone Use
..mobile phones inflight for the first time.OnAir estimates that the addressable market for in-flight mobile telephony will be over 700 million passengers by 2009 and that the value of onboard communications will be US$1.6 billion for voice and US$400 more
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Airbus planes to come with in-flight GSM capability
..assenger service offer," said Violante.OnAir market research has identified in-flight use of mobile phones as the number one communications choice among airline passengers, particularly on short and medium-length flights. OnAir says that it is moving more