{"id":55187,"date":"2022-06-22T01:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/swiss-airline-easyjet-signs-on-for-inmarsat-and-esa-iris-program\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T01:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:48:04","slug":"swiss-airline-easyjet-signs-on-for-inmarsat-and-esa-iris-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/swiss-airline-easyjet-signs-on-for-inmarsat-and-esa-iris-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Airline easyJet Signs on for Inmarsat and ESA Iris Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Swiss airline <b>easyJet<\/b> will be the first airline partner for <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong> and the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (ESA) Iris program to modernize air traffic management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iris, developed in a public-private partnership launched by ESA, is a service designed to offer high bandwidth and cost-effective satellite datalink communications between air traffic controllers and pilots.&nbsp; It allows aircraft to send and receive live data with ground systems during the entire flight. The service operates on Inmarsat\u2019s SB-S platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>easyJet will evaluate Iris\u2019 capabilities on up to 11 Airbus A320neos, set to begin flying from November 2022. The aircraft have been linefitted with a Light Cockpit Satcom solution powered by terminal manufacturer Cobham, which is integrated fully with the flight operations &amp; maintenance exchanger developed by Collins and Airbus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIris is paving the way for more efficient air traffic management, which is a crucial step forward for the aviation industry. The program brings multiple benefits, from helping us to achieve our environmental goals by further reducing our carbon emissions, to providing a better experience for our passengers,\u201d commented Hugh McConnellogue, easyJet\u2019s director of Airport Operations and Navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Iris will enter commercial and operational service fully in Europe next year, and Inmarsat and ESA recently signed a contract to globalize the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss airline easyJet will be the first airline partner for Inmarsat and the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Iris program to modernize air traffic management.&nbsp; Iris, developed in a public-private partnership launched by ESA, is a service designed to offer high bandwidth and cost-effective satellite datalink communications between air traffic controllers and pilots.&nbsp; It allows aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47893,"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-55187","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\/55187"}],"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=55187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}