All Systems & interiors articles – Page 213
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PARIS: Cost savings boost Galileo
Europe's much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system has received a huge boost in the form of €500 million ($715 million)-worth of cost savings enabling the purchase and launch of enough satellites to provide near-global coverage by the end of 2014.
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Paul Coby column: the four Big C trends that will revolutionise the air transport industry – again!
As the airline IT industry meets up for its annual gathering in Brussels, SITA chairman Paul Coby examines how new technologies can be effectively harnessed...
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PARIS: L-3 wins Skylander avionics contract
L-3 Communications (static exhibition F186) has won an avionics deal for the Skylander SK-105 utility aircraft as a subcontractor to the main cockpit systems...
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Cargo's new connections
Fresh blood is shaking up the air freight market, and changing trade patterns emerging. But how much of a threat will they be to established carriers? ...
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PARIS: Thales tests cockpit equipment for A350
Testing is under way of Thales' cockpit equipment for the Airbus A350, with the French electronics specialist expecting to deliver the software and hardware for the first aircraft over the next six months.
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NewsPARIS: Qatar threatens to cancel A350-1000s after upgrade disappointment
Airbus A350 launch customer Qatar Airways has warned that it may abandon its A350-1000 order if the recently unveiled redesign fails to provide a sufficient...
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PARIS: Rockwell Collins wins Chinese simulator deal
Rockwell Collins has announced a follow-on contract from China's Xian Simulation Science and Technology Company (XASC) to provide major components for two MA-60 full flight simulators.
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GE-AVIC accelerate Shanghai staffing for avionics joint venture
GE says its integrated avionics joint venture with China's AVIC is on track to gain final approval by the Chinese government by year's end as the two companies accelerate staffing and readying facilities in Shanghai.
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PARIS: Morpho pushes security boundaries as tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches
With the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack on New York and Washington DC approaching, despite the shock effect created by the atrocity there have been no revolutionary security developments implemented on the ground since then.
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PARIS: US agriculture secretary throws weight behind biofuels
US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack threw some high-profile weight behind the push to scale up alternative aviation fuel production during a speech at the show, in which he outlined the US government's commitment to helping the industry become more sustainable.
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Delta completes wi-fi install on first regional jet
Aircell's Gogo internet service has been installed on the first Delta Connection regional jet, a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines.
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BA and cabin crew settle long-running dispute
British Airways (BA) and members of its cabin crew have formally settled their long-running industrial dispute after staff accepted a deal hammered out between...
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NewsPARIS: AirAsia X gets in focus with new wireless IFE
Electronic flight bag specialist Flight Focus is leaping into the passenger cabin with a new low-cost wireless in-flight entertainment solution that will...
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NewsPARIS: Ariane 5 ES for Galileo programme poised for approval
Europe is almost certain to push the "go" button by the end of the year for Astrium Space Transport to develop an ES version of its Ariane 5 heavylift rocket, which would allow one launch to orbit four Galileo navigation satellites.
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PARIS: UTAir orders 40 737-800/900s
Russia's UTAir has today struck an agreement for 40 Boeing 737-800/900s at the Paris air show.
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PARIS: Altran and EADS eye airports of the future
France-based engineering consultancy Altran and EADS Innovations Works have joined forces to find solutions on how airport congestion could be avoided in future - and come up with two concepts for a post-2040 hub.
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PARIS: Europe approves ISS 757 glass cockpit
Exton, Pennsylvania-based avionics supplier Innovative Solutions & Support has been given supplemental type certification by the European Aviation Safety Agency for its retrofit "glass cockpit" display system for Boeing 757 aircraft.
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NewsPARIS: HK Airlines orders 747-8I, to sign for A380s
Hong Kong Airlines is the undisclosed customer that signed orders for 15 Boeing 747-8I passenger jets. The deal was announced by Boeing during the Paris...
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NewsPARIS: Carbon fibre or aluminium? Too early to forecast
Will the next-generation single-aisle aircraft be made of plastic or metal? No-one has given this more thought than GKN director of...
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PARIS: MRJ's improved seats on show
Mitsubishi Aircraft has unveiled new and improved seats at its Mitsubishi MRJ regional jet cabin mock-up. Manufactured by Japanese seat...