Industry Addendum: Communications and the Cabin
Inmarsat extends contract with Garuda Indonesia
March 1st 2019
More than 175 aircraft in the Garuda Group are to be equipped with the Inmarsat GX inflight broadband solution, including A320s, A330s, B737s and B777s. Read More »
The agreement is an extension of a 10-year contract between Inmarsat, Indonesian wireless technology provider Mahata Aero Teknologi, Lufthansa Technik and Lufthansa Systems with Garuda subsidiary, Citilink. The service went live with the domestic carrier in January to be followed by its launch with Garuda later this year.
Lufthansa Technik will manage the hardware, engineering, installation design and certification of the project. Lufthansa Systems will facilitate the software platform and integration based on its BoardConnect open architecture.
Inmarsat Aviation president, Philip Balaam, said the Asia-Pacific has become one of the largest markets for GX Aviation. “The fact Indonesia’s national airline and its low-cost carrier have selected the service within months of each other is testament to GX Aviation’s status as the global benchmark for inflight broadband,” he said.
