Wireless internet for Europe-bound Etihad passengers

Global airlines making an attempt to remain pace with wireless innovation

Dubai: Europe-bound passengers on Etihad airways will have access to wireless internet onboard by the highest of the year as international airlines try keep pace with wireless innovation, in step with Etihad CEO James Hogan.

“I can tell you that Etihad will have two aircraft with operational onboard internet by December this year, and five aircraft by March, 2012,” he said today at the earth Broadband Forum in Paris. “Three of those five aircraft are Airbus A330-300s, that is in a position to work between Abu Dhabi and cities like Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Munich and Paris. which we have a tendency to are right at the aim currently of preferring a fleet-wide connectivity answer for the years to return back.”



While airlines face pressure from customers to provide internet access on all flights, there is the danger of investing heavily in a {very} very system or hardware that becomes obsolete by the time it rolls of production lines, he added.

In a wide-ranging speech concerned with the results of the net revolution on the aviation business, Hogan said wireless processes enabled huge financial savings to be created
“The associated changes currently deliver around $18bn in efficiency savings annually, variety of that's passed on to customers, variety of that enables continued reinvestment.”