{"id":54859,"date":"2022-08-27T00:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/saudia-to-start-flying-with-falcon-300-terminal-on-inmarsats-gx-aviation-service-next-year\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T00:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:50:20","slug":"saudia-to-start-flying-with-falcon-300-terminal-on-inmarsats-gx-aviation-service-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/saudia-to-start-flying-with-falcon-300-terminal-on-inmarsats-gx-aviation-service-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudia to Start Flying with Falcon 300 Terminal on Inmarsat\u2019s GX Aviation Service Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saudia<\/strong> is on track to start flying <strong>Airbus<\/strong> A321 aircraft upgraded with Falcon 300 terminals to enable <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2018s GX Aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) service early next year. The Saudi Arabian national carrier is ready to start installing and activating the GX connectivity on a fleet of 35 Airbus A321neo and A321XLR aircraft after the completion of a flight trial campaign where Inmarsat&nbsp;tested the performance of the service across \u201cmore than 320 simultaneous online user sessions and sustained throughput of over 200 Mbps,\u201d Inmarsat announced Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 300 terminal has received full type approval for the Airbus A321, according to Inmarsat. Developed in partnership with Inmarsat, Stellar Blu\u2019s&nbsp;Falcon 300 terminal features Stellar Blu\u2019s modem manager with components by Kontron and a next-generation modem by iDirect, and a Ka-band phased array flat panel antenna by ThinKom. In addition, Inmarsat\u2019s Advanced Integrated Services Manager (AISM) will be natively hosted on the modem manager, enabling passenger sessions and traffic to be managed without separate hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar Blu served as the lead on obtaining certification and scheduling installations of the Falcon 300 on Saudia\u2019s Airbus A321s, according to the connectivity terminal provider\u2019s CEO Tracy Trent. In May, during the&nbsp;Future Aviation Forum&nbsp;held in Riyadh, Stellar Blu signed a&nbsp;collaboration agreement&nbsp;with Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) to include the company\u2019s in-flight connectivity installations as one of the modification services offered at a new one million square meter, custom-designed MRO Village to be located at the King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact we have reached this stage in such a short time frame is testament to the talented engineering teams on both sides, who mainly worked remotely over the last two years and rarely met in person. We look forward to seeing the Falcon 300 onboard Saudia\u2019s Airbus A321neo and Airbus A321XLR aircraft, followed by many more airline fleets in the years to come,\u201d Trent said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Saudia first made the selection of the Falcon 300 for its Airbus A321 fleet in November 2021 to become the first airline customer for Inmarsat\u2019s OneFi portal. Inmarsat launched the OneFi customer experience platform (CXP) last year as a new digital in-flight passenger experience tool to drive more ancillary revenue from passengers last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of our flight trials have demonstrated the terminal\u2019s ability to consistently deliver the highest levels of connectivity, even over the world\u2019s busiest airspaces,\u201d William Huot-Marchand, Inmarsat Aviation\u2019s senior vice president of In-flight Connectivity, said in a statement. \u201cAnd with final type approval now in place, we are fast approaching commercial service at the beginning of next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published by Via Satellite sister publication Avionics International.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudia is on track to start flying Airbus A321 aircraft upgraded with Falcon 300 terminals to enable Inmarsat\u2018s GX Aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) service early next year. The Saudi Arabian national carrier is ready to start installing and activating the GX connectivity on a fleet of 35 Airbus A321neo and A321XLR aircraft after the completion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54860,"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-54859","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\/54859"}],"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=54859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}