Early October News Tidbits
We've been out of pocket lately, so apologies for a lack of updates!
This great Telegraph article by Nigel Tisdall asks the question about in-flight movies, Why is so much rubbish screened at 32,000 feet? They make a good point about the benefit of quality in-flight entertainment to commercial carriers:
Far from not caring if we watch the movie, the airlines are actually investing in hi-tech entertainment systems offering an ever-greater multi-channel choice. From their point of view, a passenger absorbed by a movie is a passenger not walking about the aircraft or asking the cabin crew for another drink.
B/E Aerospace, a maker of aircraft cabin interior products, said it expects revenue for 2006 to reach $1 billion due to strong demand from its international customers. With a market cap just over $1 billion, we're not exactly sure what this company has to do with general IFE (besides influencing interior specs, and our previously reported Connexion agreement). Earning report via AP
XM Radio coming to all JetBlue aircraft in 2006.
Boeing in talks with A-I, Jet for Connexion - "Boeing is in talks with Air-India and Jet Airways for installation of its high-speed Internet service, Connexion, on the long-haul flights of these carriers... Boeing had also flown down one of its Internet-enabled planes to Delhi and demonstrated its wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) capabilities to the carriers."
- World Poker Exchange Partners with US Airways to provide poker tutorial spots on all US Airways flights over two hours. The 90-second instructional spots are taken directly from the World Poker Exchange's new tutorial DVD series, "In the Minds of the Poker Pros."
(yawn)
In-flight gambling, folks. Make your investments in this sector soon.
¶ 7:53 AM