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Alaska Airlines and Intelsat to roll out next-gen satellite WiFi on regional jets starting in 2024

GeekWire

(Intelsat Photo) Alaska Airlines will invest $25 million to upgrade its regional jets with a new WiFi system from Intelsat capable of download speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, using both traditional geostationary and new low-Earth orbit satellites. Intelsat’s system uses the OneWeb LEO satellite network for connectivity.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time.

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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

CIO Business Intelligence

As lean as things got, that time afforded the opportunity to rebuild by flipping the script: Air New Zealand was going to become a digital company that happened to be an airline, rather than an airline with a digital department. This is a chance to start practicing what an airline of the future could look like.

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Enabling enterprises to exert business level control over CSPs’ 5G network connectivity

TM Forum

This Catalyst explores how communication service providers (CSPs) can offer enterprises guaranteed and differentiated 5G connectivity services – with the security, data sovereignty and control that enterprises need to move more mission critical workloads onto the CSP’s 5G network. 5G: Accelerating smart aviation – Phase IV.

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Boeing 737 Crashes Vertically Into Mountain in China With 132 on Board

Gizmodo

A Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern Airlines with over 130 people on board crashed into a mountain on Monday, according to Chinese state media outlet CGTN. There’s no word on casualties yet but horrifying video obtained by the Associated Press shows a plane going down vertically into the mountain. Read more.

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Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

The Verge

The Register reports that security researchers at Pen Test Partners recently got access to a British Airways 747, after the airline decided to retire its fleet following a plummet in travel during the coronavirus pandemic. Boeing’s 747-400 aircraft, first introduced in 1988, is still receiving critical software updates through 3.5-inch

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What CIOs Can Learn From An Upgrade Of Inflight Web Services

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work.