{"id":61164,"date":"2019-11-06T22:53:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/el-al-israel-airlines-adds-boeing-777-with-viasat-ifc\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T22:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:53:27","slug":"el-al-israel-airlines-adds-boeing-777-with-viasat-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/el-al-israel-airlines-adds-boeing-777-with-viasat-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"El Al Israel Airlines Adds Boeing 777 With Viasat IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>El Al Israel Airlines <\/strong>and <strong>Viasat<\/strong> expanded their relationship by adding the <strong>Boeing<\/strong> 777 widebody fleet to the mix of El Al aircraft with Viasat\u2019s equipment for In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). In addition to the Boeing 777 fleet, Viasat equipment currently powers the connectivity experience across El Al\u2019s Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing 737-900 and part of Boeing 737-800 aircraft. El Al plans to have all widebody aircraft equipped with Viasat\u2019s latest generation IFC solution and all narrow-body fleet equipped with Viasat\u2019s In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) offering. El Al expects to have the majority of its fleet connected with the Viasat service by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl Al takes great pride in being an innovative airline, and they continue to push the in-flight connectivity boundaries,\u201d said Don Buchman, vice president and general manager, Commercial Aviation, Viasat. \u201cEl Al was first to launch Viasat\u2019s fast IFC service in Europe and the Middle East; first to deploy high-speed internet on transatlantic flights using the advanced ViaSat-2 satellite; and are now the first airline to bring IFC to the Boeing 777 aircraft for global routes before the launch of our ViaSat-3 satellite constellation. Enabling high-speed, high-quality internet to their full fleet confirms their dedication to bring customers and crew fast, reliable connectivity service\u2014no matter where they fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nimrod Borovitz, vice president, Strategy and Business Development at EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. commented, \u201cWe have a vision to serve our passengers and crew members with high-speed, reliable, enriching experiences when flying to and from major global destinations. We\u2019ve enjoyed a partnership with Viasat, and are excited to have all of our aircraft supported by ViaSat-3\u2014as we believe this will help us realize our vision to make our fleet fully connected. Our ongoing in-flight Wi-Fi investments will enable over time the more than 5 million passengers we fly annually to enjoy the internet how it\u2019s supposed to be: great, engaging and available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Al Israel Airlines and Viasat expanded their relationship by adding the Boeing 777 widebody fleet to the mix of El Al aircraft with Viasat\u2019s equipment for In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). In addition to the Boeing 777 fleet, Viasat equipment currently powers the connectivity experience across El Al\u2019s Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing 737-900 and part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61166,"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-61164","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\/61164"}],"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=61164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}