Mary Kirby

Safran has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Safran Passenger Innovations, its inflight entertainment and connectivity division, to Los Angeles-based private equity firm Kingswood Capital Management.

Airlines have moved with remarkable speed to adopt a software fix for the Elevator Aileron Computer (ELAC) on Airbus A320 Family aircraft after Airbus and EASA sounded the warning on Friday about a flight control vulnerability affecting roughly half of the A320s in the world fleet.

The first Airbus A330neo ever to be operated in mainland China has been delighting passengers since Hainan Airlines pressed the new twinjet into service in mid-November on flights linking Beijing with Hangzhou and Haikou.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) instructing airlines to implement a software fix on in-service Airbus A320 Family aircraft after learning that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

Gilat has shipped hundreds of its Gilat Stellar Blu ‘Sidewinder’ multi-orbit ESA to date and the hardware “has gained about 300,000 flight hours." The firm is ramp up its ESA capacity to support customers.

Emirates today officially confirmed at the Dubai Airshow that it’s going fleet-wide with SpaceX’s Starlink Ku-band Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based inflight connectivity solution to support free Wi-Fi for all passengers — with no logins and no special loyalty status required to access the service.

China Southern Airlines has chosen SES to serve as its managed service provider (MSP) to power Ka-band satellite-supported inflight connectivity on 30 Airbus A350-900 twinjets which are earmarked to receive Airbus’ supplier-furnished HBCplus IFC hardware.

Lufthansa Group confirms it is in the process of equipping 150-plus narrowbodies with the European Aviation Network’s hybrid air-to-ground (ATG)/S-band satellite-based inflight connectivity service and expects to finish installations in a year.

ST Engineering has reported a non-cash impairment for its iDirect group and is exploring “strategic options” for the business, the Singapore-based global technology, defense and engineering giant reveals.

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