I hate to put a dampener on this thread, but that is not ASIP.
While I did mentioned we were approached by airfi, we are not working with them.
At this stage we are only working with Lufthansa Systems and one more highly credible company we hope to announce soon.
We do have development programs with 3 other aerospace companies but early days yet.
You would not have noticed as it was well hidden, but Airfi who we would not supply our technology too after making the Atlantic airways announcement had to retract it. Not only was it misleading, but Iridium confirmed what they were proposing would not be possible.
Interestingly they say it’s flying on Atlantic who are very quite.
In there second misleading press release they proposed an Iridium window antenna (I put my first one in an aircraft window 10 years ago) plus a portable device called Iridiumgo, (wifi access point which is designed for maximum 4 users)
IridiumGo is 2.4 kbps and they omitted the fact that window antennas require certification.
Looking forward to seeing airline passengers using that for social media. Anyone can stick an antenna in a window with Iridiumgo and call it a system.
What I can assure you is, what they supposedly have is nothing like what we are doing. It sounds feasible but, Jetfly in Europe who has a fleet of 14 turboprop 8 seater aircraft tried it, then purchased our system. Iridium told them it would not work. BTW Lufthansa Systems looked at it and selected ASIP.
We have been designing connectivity solutions for airlines for 3 decades and see many new comers who think it’s easy, come and go.
Finally, our focus is European and more recently after the launch at the aviation festival in Singapore 2 weeks ago , Asian/pacific based Low Cost Airlines who cannot justify the high cost of wifi. Atlantic with 3 aircraft is not in our target market.
I apologise for not clarifying this sooner.
Going to be a very interesting at Hamburg next week.
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