Connected Aviation Today (Digitisation)
Connected Aviation Today (Digitisation)
Connected Aviation Today (Digitisation)
After our somewhat musical roundup of IFE content developments over the past 12 months, it’s David Whelan’s turn to address recent and upcoming trends impacting in-flight entertainment systems. Or should that be in-flight engagement? A century ago, the “roaring twenties” were characterised as a period of economic prosperity and cultural revolution, famously captured in F.…
In the first of this year’s Valour Consultancy IFEC market reviews – Craig Foster provides a somewhat musical roundup of IFE content developments over the past 12 months. Then, he looks forward to 2022 with some predictions which we hope will prove to be words of wisdom. “Everybody had a hard year” sang John Lennon…
With the end of 2021 in sight, we wanted to take a few moments to highlight what we saw unfolding over the past 12 months and look ahead to 2022. Senior Maritime Analyst Joshua Flood outlines 10 key predictions for the year ahead. Summary of 2021 2021 was a faltering bounce back from 2020…. but…
Connected Aviation Today (Airports)
A recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights how our future energy supply needs to not only be clean but eco-remedial, with projects still possessing financial incentives to attract the necessary capital investment. This whitepaper examines the current batch of decommissioning activities in the North Sea which are progressing towards sub-optimal outcomes at…
In-flight connectivity specialist Daniel Welch debates potential winners and losers following Viasat’s shock acquisition announcement. Did you see it coming? I have no issue admitting that I didn’t, and the same can be said for my colleagues, despite claims to the contrary from one maritime expert that shall remain unnamed. Like many, we’ve long speculated…
It was announced this week that American satellite company, Viasat, would acquire its British rival, Inmarsat, in a deal worth USD$7.3billion. This represents a big jump from the $6billion Inmarsat was sold for in 2019 (completed in January 2020) by a consortium of Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus and others. Upon the announcement of the deal,…