{"id":84087,"date":"2011-10-17T20:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gulf-air-ceo-reveals-details-of-sky-hub-in-flight-entertainment-launch\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:23:27","slug":"gulf-air-ceo-reveals-details-of-sky-hub-in-flight-entertainment-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gulf-air-ceo-reveals-details-of-sky-hub-in-flight-entertainment-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Air CEO Reveals Details of Sky Hub In-Flight Entertainment Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-17-11] <strong>Gulf Air<\/strong> is looking to raise the stakes of its in-flight connectivity and entertainment business, launching its new Sky Hub service featuring in-flight live TV delivered via satellite, the Middle East airline announced Oct. 14.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Gulf Air is now installing <strong>Panasonic<\/strong>\u2019s Global Communications suite to support service on the first aircraft and plans to integrate the solution across its entire fleet progressively, according to Gulf Air CEO Samer Majali.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are bringing to you, for the first time in the world, fully integrated broadband connectivity offering high-speed Internet with high-speed Wi-Fi and data services, voice over the Internet (VOIP), streaming videos and the world\u2019s first in-flight live TV satellite stream across continents,\u201d Majali said in a statement<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The company is working with Panasonic Avionics to provide two-way broadband connectivity at speeds of up to 50 Mbps to the aircraft. The service aims to enable faster browsing, chatting and other Internet based services, in addition to live and uninterrupted television services on routes across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.<br \/>\nIn a recent interview with <i>Satellite TODAY Insider<\/i>, Panasonic Avionics Vice President David Bruner said that the in-flight market\u2019s tipping point had now been reached as many airlines have signaled a readiness to adopt the service.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cYou will see that some of the 12 to 15 contract partners we\u2019ve signed are committed to adding more aircraft to their existing commitments. You will probably see another 15 to 20 airlines making that commitment over the next year,\u201d said Bruner. \u201cI also think you will see as many committed to our competitors. I can see 30 or more airlines making a commitment over that time. The top 50 to 60 airlines in the world will all have made a decision, at least in terms of the fleets they expect to operate over the next 10 years or so and are the work horses of their fleet.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<i>Mohamad El Assaad, Senior Manager IFE\/Communications, Gulf Air, will be speaking on Via Satellite\u2019s latest \u2018Satellite Broadband on Airplanes\u2019 webinar on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. EST. He will be joined by Emirates Airlines Vice President Patrick Brannelly and TAM Airlines Business Unit Manager Jose Racowski. <\/i><br \/>\n<i>&nbsp;<\/i><br \/>\n<i>To register for our webinar, \u2018Satellite Broadband on Airplanes: A New Era Set to Begin (Part Two), click here or visit: www.satellitetoday.com\/webinars\/broadband-airplanes.html<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-17-11] Gulf Air is looking to raise the stakes of its in-flight connectivity and entertainment business, launching its new Sky Hub service featuring in-flight live TV delivered via satellite, the Middle East airline announced Oct. 14. &nbsp; &nbsp;Gulf Air is now installing Panasonic\u2019s Global Communications suite to support service on the first aircraft and plans [&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-84087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84087"}],"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=84087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}