The gap between the pace of technology advancement outside the aircraft and within its passenger cabin — and especially in the digital technology deployed within seats — has never been so large. We sat down for an extensive discussion with Cathay Pacific’s general manager for customer experience and design Vivian…
While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is making waves in many corporate digital technology environments, managed crew devices still lead the market in aviation. We sat down with Job Heimerikx, chief executive officer of AirFi, a pathfinder company in this space since it was first developed in the early 2010s. While…
Business aviation’s connectivity options are expanding substantially, with the low-latency advantages of low earth orbit constellations and a new generation of aircraft antennas for geostationary earth orbit satellites and a range of industry Internet service provider consolidations. After sitting down with connectivity experts at the recent Aircraft Interiors Expo, we…
Containerisation, a kind of virtualised computing environment, is a key part of delivering many modern applications within the digital sphere, including within aviation. But what is containerisation, and what are key options like Kubernetes and Docker? We look at the basics of these technologies in the latest of our ab…
Aviation safety is a wide-ranging field, and in several key parts of this industry segment the ongoing supply chain crunch is biting deep. We dive deep into two high-profile segments: cybersecurity and airline seats, both of which have high requirements and are only too visible if things go wrong. On…
Digitalisation is a key tool for resolving much of the ongoing supply chain crunch in aviation. But even within the areas of the industry that create digital products, supply chain issues abound — as we discuss with industry experts in the latest of our supply chain series. In terms of…
As aviation seeks to integrate a growing range of technologies, including in the safety field, it needs to account for the evolution of the supporting stacks behind those technologies — in the flight deck, elsewhere in the aircraft, and on the ground — as well as increasing cybersecurity threats, in order to…
It’s a truism of the economics of connected aircraft that the majority of the cost-benefit calculations for inflight connectivity so far have been approved based on passenger use, with growing operational use in many cases depending on subsequent integration, innovation and widespread connectivity adoption. A key part of the technology…
Understanding the shifting relationship between hardware and software is fundamental to the future of the digitised aviation industry, and to the technology stacks on which it is built. But how is the industry navigating those changes and challenges? We talk tech with key researchers looking into how the digital landscape…
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