Airbus's communications joint venture with Sita and Tenzing, which aims eventually to enable passengers to use mobile telephones on board aircraft, has been branded OnAir. It plans to provide in-seat telephony and short messaging services (SMS) as well as email from passengers' laptop computers. Next year the venture will extend this to include access to corporate virtual private networks. Meanwhile, Asiana Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have tapped Sita to provide its Aircom SMS to enable passengers to send and receive text messages in flight.
Source: Flight International
