{"id":61895,"date":"2019-08-09T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jetblue-selects-viasat-ifc-for-new-airbus-fleet\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:15:16","slug":"jetblue-selects-viasat-ifc-for-new-airbus-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jetblue-selects-viasat-ifc-for-new-airbus-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Selects Viasat IFC for New Airbus Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>JetBlue<\/strong> selected the <strong>Viasat<\/strong> In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) system for the airline\u2019s new fleet of 70 <strong>Airbus<\/strong> A220-300 aircraft \u2014 for delivery beginning in 2020, with the option for 50 additional aircraft.&nbsp; JetBlue and Viasat first launched the Viasat-powered Fly-Fi in-flight Wi-Fi service in December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>JetBlue\u2019s new Airbus A220-300 aircraft will be outfitted with Viasat\u2019s latest Ka-band IFC kit, and is compatible with Viasat\u2019s complete fleet of satellites, including Viasat\u2019s first-generation spacecraft \u2013 ViaSat-1, WildBlue-1 and Anik F2, its jointly-owned European satellite, KA-SAT; its second-generation spacecraft ViaSat-2, and the forthcoming ViaSat-3 class of satellites, which is expected to offer near global coverage and nearly eight times more capacity than Viasat\u2019s current fleet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince launching Fly-Fi, JetBlue has set the pace for how airlines should offer in-flight entertainment and internet services to customers,\u201d said Mariya Stoyanova, director, product development, JetBlue. \u201cWe\u2019re creating powerful, engaging onboard experiences with our Viasat-powered Fly-Fi service. Our new agreement with Viasat is a strong endorsement to their ongoing commitment to technology advancement, which we believe will help us continue to deliver great experiences to our customers\u2014no matter where they fly with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue selected the Viasat In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) system for the airline\u2019s new fleet of 70 Airbus A220-300 aircraft \u2014 for delivery beginning in 2020, with the option for 50 additional aircraft.&nbsp; JetBlue and Viasat first launched the Viasat-powered Fly-Fi in-flight Wi-Fi service in December 2013. JetBlue\u2019s new Airbus A220-300 aircraft will be outfitted with Viasat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61896,"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-61895","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\/61895"}],"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=61895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}