The Seamless Air Alliance, an Airbus-led consortium of airlines, communications equipment manufacturers and operators of mobile networks and satellites, is working toward a technology demonstration for improved passenger connectivity experience this year.
The Seamless Air Alliance aims at enabling every traveler to use his or her own device “to automatically connect to the Internet with no complicated login process nor paywall to scramble over.” Formed last year, the consortium now has three working groups—writing specifications for the technology, requirements and operations.
“The passenger experience with inflight connectivity [IFE] remains one of the great technology challenges,” the alliance’s CEO Jack Mandala said…
