The Future of Connectivity: Airlines Examine the Critical Second Chapter for IFC

Sponsored by ST Engineering, iDirect

4 Dec 2024

Five airline leaders gathered with Mark Holmes, Senior Editorial Director, Via Satellite, for a one-hour webinar looking at the “second chapter” of inflight connectivity (IFC).  I have summarized some of the conversation and added my own thoughts.  The Seamless Air Alliance has an airline forum which meets monthly. I found the sentiments raised in the airline forum are very much aligned to what was expressed by panelists.  Seamless Air Alliance uses the airline forum to set the agenda for all the work being conducted across the nine expert’s groups.

Inmarsat Aero Conference 2002

Inmarsat Aero Conference 2002

June 11-12, 2002

ICAO Conference Facility, Montreal, Canada

A time capsule, here are my notes from the annual Inmarsat Aero Conference, 2002. I was CTO for Tenzing Communications. This was a difficult time, following 9/11. Tenzing had downsized by 60%. We were focused on deploying Swift64, 64 kbps in either circuit switched or packet switched channels. Sorrow for all that have passed since then.