{"id":82318,"date":"2012-10-12T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/emirates-to-offer-in-flight-mobile-phone-service\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:57:48","slug":"emirates-to-offer-in-flight-mobile-phone-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/emirates-to-offer-in-flight-mobile-phone-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates to Offer In-Flight Mobile Phone Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates will begin offering in-flight mobile phone service on its fleet of A380s, as part of of the Dubai carrier\u2019s connectivity package with OnAir. The OnAir system uses EDGE and GPRS connections to allow passengers to make and receive phone calls and text messages through their individual mobile service providers. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Emirates said the OnAir mobile service has been successfully installed and tested on one of its A380s, and will be retrofitted to its  entire fleet of 25 A380s going forward. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8220;Our goal on every flight is to exceed our passenger\u2019s\u2019 expectations.  We believe that exceeding expectations should not only apply to our Cabin Crew\u2019s award-winning inflight service and our SKYTRAX \u2018World\u2019s Best Airline Inflight Entertainment\u2019 ice system, but also to our passenger\u2019s desire to stay in touch while travelling,&#8221; said Patrick Brannelly, VP of corporate communications at Emirates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates will begin offering in-flight mobile phone service on its fleet of A380s, as part of of the Dubai carrier\u2019s connectivity package with OnAir. The OnAir system uses EDGE and GPRS connections to allow passengers to make and receive phone calls and text messages through their individual mobile service providers. &nbsp; &nbsp;Emirates said the OnAir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82318"}],"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=82318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}