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As China’s domestic travel and tourism industry shows signs of recovery, inflight connectivity service providers are looking to the world’s most populous country as a growth market. After all, the lion’s share of China’s domestic airline fleet is still not fitted with IFC systems that support broadband Internet for passengers. By the end of 2020, China’s three largest carriers — Air China, China Eastern and China Southern — “had reported demand returning to 90 percent of 2019 levels, but that changed quickly. Fresh COVID outbreaks early this year prompted the Chinese governmen...

Isaac Angel is the new chairman of the board of Gilat Satellite Networks, the company announced March 9. Angel takes over from Dov Baharav who has stepped down and retired after being in the role for seven years. Angel serves as chairman of the board and served as CEO at Ormat Technologies Inc., a global company delivering renewable power and energy solutions. Before his seven-year tenure as an officer and director at Ormat, Angel held executive positions at LeadCom Integrated Solutions, Lipman Electronic Engineering. “Gilat has over 30 years of impressive global expertise, a strong cus...

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8 and Women’s History Month, Global Eagle is collaborating with The WOW Foundation to enable airl...

Global Eagle is today announcing it has obtained the exclusive worldwide inflight distribution rights to critically acclaimed independent films ‘Minar...

Canadian satellite operator Telesat has selected Thales Alenia Space as the prime manufacturer of its global LEO constellation, which will comprise 298 Ka-band satellites integrated with an advanced ground network, and offer pole-to-pole coverage. The network, branded Lightspeed, is being optimized to serve the broadband connectivity requirements of aeronautical and maritime users, in addition to fixed and mobile network operators, enterprise customers and governments. Telesat has been developing the LEO network strategy for about seven years, and more recently worked with all the key players...