{"id":48024,"date":"2025-11-18T23:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-etihad-airways-and-plans-to-add-leo-to-business-offering\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:37:45","slug":"viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-etihad-airways-and-plans-to-add-leo-to-business-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-etihad-airways-and-plans-to-add-leo-to-business-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Expands IFC Deal With Etihad Airways and Plans to Add LEO to Business Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Viasat<\/b> announced two updates for its in-flight connectivity (IFC) business this week \u2014 that customer <strong>Etihad Airways<\/strong> plans to deploy the upgraded Viasat Amara service across its fleet, as well as plans for Viasat to add <strong>Telesat<\/strong> Lightspeed to its business aviation service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The expanded agreement with Etihad includes both widebody and narrowbody aircraft, including Etihad\u2019s recently introduced A321LR fleet. All of these aircraft will be equipped with the Viasat Amara solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viasat Amara is the company\u2019s new IFC solution that provides connectivity via Viasat\u2018s global Ka-band satellites, partner satellites, as well as the upcoming Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) partner satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership also ensures Etihad has access to Viasat\u2019s latest technology as it evolves, keeping us at the forefront of in-flight connectivity. It\u2019s about giving our guests the freedom to enjoy their flight time exactly as they choose,\u201d Arik De, chief revenue and commercial officer for Etihad said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Viasat plans to integrate Telesat Lightspeed LEO satellite capacity into its JetXP in-flight broadband service for business jets. JetXP is the unified brand bringing together legacy Jet ConneX business from Inmarsat and Viasat Ka services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viasat signed a multi-year capacity agreement for Telesat Lightspeed LEO services earlier this year. Viasat said customers will have to have to install an additional flat panel antenna for the LEO addition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that certain requirements are better served with multi-orbit capabilities and have designed our network architecture to intelligently orchestrate this,\u201d Viasat Aviation President Don Buchman commented. \u201cThe integration of Telesat Lightspeed LEO is another breakthrough and has been scheduled to enter commercial service in late 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat announced two updates for its in-flight connectivity (IFC) business this week \u2014 that customer Etihad Airways plans to deploy the upgraded Viasat Amara service across its fleet, as well as plans for Viasat to add Telesat Lightspeed to its business aviation service.&nbsp; The expanded agreement with Etihad includes both widebody and narrowbody aircraft, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48025,"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-48024","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\/48024"}],"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=48024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}