{"id":84410,"date":"2011-08-09T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tam-airlines-to-expand-onair-connectivity-services-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T11:11:44","slug":"tam-airlines-to-expand-onair-connectivity-services-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tam-airlines-to-expand-onair-connectivity-services-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"TAM Airlines to Expand OnAir Connectivity Services in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TAM Airlines<\/b>&nbsp;will extend its&nbsp;<b>OnAir<\/b>&nbsp;in-flight connectivity services to allow passengers to use notebooks, tablets and other devices compatible with WiFi, to access the Internet in addition to their mobile phones, the airline announced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; TAM said the decision to extend the services followed nine months in which passenger take-up of the service was stronger than expected. The new services will launch in approximately one year aboard the company\u2019s entire long-haul fleet, including Boeing and Airbus aircraft. TAM said a total of 80 aircraft would be equipped with OnAir\u2019s services during the next few years.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe long-haul service will be rolled-out from the second half of 2012. Installation of the 31 short-haul planes has already started, with OnAir connectivity gradually coming into service by the beginning of next year,\u201d the airline said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; OnAir\u2019s connectivity services are based on&nbsp;<b>Inmarsat\u2019s<\/b>&nbsp;SwiftBroadband, with satellite connectivity to and from the aircraft operated in partnership with&nbsp;<b>Arycom<\/b>&nbsp;in Brazil. The service aims to offer an upgrade path to Inmarsat\u2019s next generation Ka-band solution, Global Xpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAM Airlines&nbsp;will extend its&nbsp;OnAir&nbsp;in-flight connectivity services to allow passengers to use notebooks, tablets and other devices compatible with WiFi, to access the Internet in addition to their mobile phones, the airline announced. &nbsp;&nbsp; TAM said the decision to extend the services followed nine months in which passenger take-up of the service was stronger than expected. [&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-84410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84410"}],"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=84410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}