Vertically-integrated technology allows Viasat to optimize the connectivity pipeline from end-to-end, delivering an in-flight connectivity service that mirrors the experience consumers have on the ground.
Viasat Inc., a global communications company, announced that Virgin Atlantic has selected Viasat’s industry-leading in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution for the new added fleet of Airbus A330-900 aircraft. Viasat’s IFC system enables high quality, full video streaming, browsing, messaging, social media scrolling and more to every connected device on the aircraft, operating with a level of connectivity made possible through the Company’s robust satellite network capacity.
The Viasat IFC equipment will be factory-installed (“linefit”) on the 16 new Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-900s at the Airbus Center of Excellence production site in Toulouse, France, ensuring in-flight internet service is available on each aircraft upon delivery. Virgin Atlantic’s fleet of Airbus A330-900s is scheduled to enter service with intercontinental flights between the Americas and the United Kingdom in the second half of this year.
Don Buchman, Viasat’s vice president and general manager, Commercial Aviation said, “We’re thrilled that Virgin Atlantic – an airline with innovation and customer service at its core — has chosen Viasat as its IFC partner on its new Airbus aircraft. We have a strong history of delivering quality IFC on long-haul flights and look forward to bringing our technology and service capabilities to Virgin Atlantic and its customers.”
Viasat’s onboard equipment on Virgin Atlantic’s new aircraft is designed to be forward-compatible with the Company’s next-generation satellite constellation, ViaSat-3, offering Virgin Atlantic additional capacity and expanded global coverage. The critical test to extraordinary connectivity in avionics is that passenger request is dramatically higher in the most vigorously focused geological regions, like enormous air airport hub cities (London and New York, for instance) and occupied flight corridors.
The versatility of Viasat’s satellite networks is intended to satisfy this need density challenge with adequate limit, which is basic to address the persistently rising information prerequisites of the most bandwidth intensive applications of the web.
