{"id":46927,"date":"2026-06-01T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mexican-airline-viva-taps-ses-to-connect-100-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:32:11","slug":"mexican-airline-viva-taps-ses-to-connect-100-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mexican-airline-viva-taps-ses-to-connect-100-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Airline Viva Taps SES to Connect 100 Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s low-cost airline <b>Viva<\/b> has selected <b>SES<\/b> to provide multi-orbit connectivity to 100 Airbus aircraft under a deal announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>SES will equip 60 Airbus 320s and 40 Airbus 321s with its electronically steered array (ESA) in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. The service has already been activated on 11 aircraft, a spokesperson for SES confirmed Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viva will be the first Mexico-based airline to offer SES\u2019s ESA service. The IFC service uses the Sidewinder ESA antenna, built by Gilat Satellite Networks. It connects to both SES\u2019s Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites and OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites from partner Eutelsat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnectivity today is not a luxury \u2013 it\u2019s part of how people live, work, and travel. Our goal is to make flying fit seamlessly into our passengers\u2019 digital lives, instead of forcing them to disconnect. With this service, being in the air no longer means being offline,\u201d said Pablo G\u00f3mez Gallardo, chief digital officer at Viva.<\/p>\n<p>This is SES\u2019s second recent deal in Latin America for the ESA solution after an agreement with Abra Group in December for more than 100 aircraft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s low-cost airline Viva has selected SES to provide multi-orbit connectivity to 100 Airbus aircraft under a deal announced Monday. SES will equip 60 Airbus 320s and 40 Airbus 321s with its electronically steered array (ESA) in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. The service has already been activated on 11 aircraft, a spokesperson for SES confirmed Monday.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}