{"id":52520,"date":"2023-10-19T01:52:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-canadas-porter-airlines\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T01:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:52:22","slug":"viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-canadas-porter-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-expands-ifc-deal-with-canadas-porter-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Expands IFC Deal With Canada\u2019s Porter Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s <b>Porter Airlines<\/b> expanded its deal with <b>Viasat <\/b>to equip 20 new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft with Viasat\u2019s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution.<\/p>\n<p>Porter is a Canadian airline that flies across Canada and to select destinations in the U.S. The company is currently expanding its cross-Canada destinations and routes to the southern and western U.S. It is Canada\u2019s only airline to offer free, fast in-flight Wi-Fi across the entire fleet of Embraer E195-E2 aircraft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This deal follows after Porter contracted Viasat in 2021, for IFC on 30 E195-E2 aircraft. The majority of these are installed and operating today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that our passengers value the high-speed and high-quality Wi-Fi on our E195-E2 fleet, which allows them to stay entertained or connected to work while in the air,\u201d said Kevin Jackson, executive vice president and CCO. \u201cOur commitment to make the Wi-Fi fast and free has helped build on our award-winning approach to hospitality as we continue to expand across North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a string of IFC deals for Viasat, which powers Delta\u2019s free on-board Wi-Fi. Other deals include Malaysia Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Southwest Airlines, Breeze Airways, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Porter Airlines expanded its deal with Viasat to equip 20 new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft with Viasat\u2019s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. Porter is a Canadian airline that flies across Canada and to select destinations in the U.S. The company is currently expanding its cross-Canada destinations and routes to the southern and western U.S. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52524,"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-52520","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\/52520"}],"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=52520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}