Thousands of Gogo’s legacy air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity installations on business aircraft appear poised to lose access to inflight connectivity i.
When it started offering its
GoDirect platform of software solutions, it provided simple inform and control tools such as enabling a company to turn on Inmarsat SwiftBroadband-supported Internet if a principal was flying.
But GoDirect evolved by becoming system agnostic – willing to work with any airtime service provider, not just Honeywell’s partners – and last year, users migrated to a new Forge portal, which helps business aircraft operators perform multiple tasks and manage flights from start to finish from one mobile-optimized website.
Forge is able to synchronize a flight department’s different services to populate popular flight planning tools, a timely decision given that BizAv is rebounding faster from the COVID-19 crisis than commercial.