Industry Addendum: Communications and the Cabin
Seamless Air Alliance attracts leading industry participation
March 1st 2019
In the 12 months since it was set up at the 2018 Mobile World Congress, the Seamless Air Alliance has grown to 23 members from the inflight communications industry, aerospace manufacturers and airlines. Read More »
The goal of the alliance, which had its inaugural meeting last June, is to enable any traveler, boarding any flight on any airline anywhere in the world to use their own devices to automatically connect to the Internet without complicated logins or paywalls to penetrate.
Seamless Air Alliance CEO, Jack Mandala, said that “the passenger experience with inflight connectivity remains one of the great technology challenges. From day one we have been determined to deliver our mission to bring industries and technologies together to make the inflight internet experience simple to access and a delight to use”.
Founding members of the alliance are Airbus, Artel, Delta Air Lines, OneWeb and Sprint. The other 17 members are Air France KLM, Aeromexico, Etihad Airways, GOL, Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Astronics, Collins Aerospace, Comtech, Cyient, iDirect, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Latecoere, Nokia, Panasonic, Adaptive Channel, GlobalReach Technology, Safran and SITAONAIR.
