Keeping online while in the air is vital for business aviation passengers, and after seismic shifts in the connectivity provider landscape, together with the step change in bizav demand since the pandemic started, it’s never been so complicated for owners and operators to make connectivity decisions.
Inflight connectivity in business aviation has never been so critical. With massive growth in private aircraft travel since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the paradigm shift in the world of work towards videoconferencing, and the growth of video within the social networking sphere, demand is even higher than forecast.
“As such,” says inflight connectivity expert Craig Foster, co-founder and senior research consultant at Valour Consultancy, “the likes of Gogo and Viasat have introduced unlimited data and streaming plans, as well as removed speed caps to try and satisfy this ever increasing demand and provide more pleasurable on-board experiences. This has gone hand-in-hand with the emergence of more flexible price plans, which were being demanded pre-pandemic but have certainly come more to the fore with COVID resulting in unpredictability over when and where aircraft could fly.”… {read more on Yocova.com}
Author: John Walton
Published 23rd August 2022
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