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  • SEAMLESS AIR ALLIANCE UNVEILS SATELLITE SERVICE PROVIDER REPORT AND MODEM CARD STANDARD

    6 March 2025

    The Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), the industry’s leading collaborative forum dedicated to advancing inflight connectivity, has announced the release of two new documents—the IFC Satellite Network Overview and the Generation One IFC Modem Circuit Card Standard—highlighting the SAA’s commitment to drive innovation and state-of-the-art inflight connectivity experiences within the sector.

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  • SEAMLESS AIR ALLIANCE AND EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ANNOUNCE MAJOR PROGRESS IN 5G NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS FOR AVIATION

    27 Feb 2025

    The Seamless Air Alliance (SAA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are pleased to announce significant advancements in the development of 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) for aviation connectivity. This collaborative effort marks a major milestone in the integration of space-based communication technologies to enable a seamless extension of mobile networks to provide in-flight connectivity and exceptional passenger experiences.

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  • SEAMLESS AIR ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES NEW VENTURE TO MEASURE INFLIGHT WI-FI PERFORMANCE

    Oct 24, 2024

    Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), the leading developer of global standards for inflight connectivity, today announced a new venture to track and report the performance of satellite networks. The SAA connectivity metrics were developed through an industry-wide collaboration between airlines, satellite operators and service providers, however, until now, tracking performance to these metrics was left to the airline and service provider.

    With a mission to be the arms-length supplier of Vital Performance Data to the industry, this new software service is called Viper, a name that aptly combines “Vital” and “Performance” to describe the data being delivered. The Viper service platform will collect satellite network performance data and deliver actionable insights to airlines and their service providers, leveraging the same SAA defined metrics that are familiar and in-use today.

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  • European Space Agency and the Seamless Air Alliance partner to accelerate space-based technologies on board airplanes

    July 24, 2024

    On 24 July at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK, ESA signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) with the Seamless Air Alliance (SAA).

    The agreement, signed by Laurent Jaffart, ESA Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications, and Jack Mandala, CEO of SAA, marks a significant step towards integrating satellite and terrestrial networks while highlighting ESA’s role in adopting space-enabled technologies across global mobility sectors, including aviation.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Releases Report on a Standardized Platform for the Easy Integration of Aviation Applications

    22 May 2024

    The Seamless Air Alliance announced the release of a new report produced by the Hosted Platforms group, one of seven Seamless Air Alliance Technical Working Groups (TWG) led by chairs from industry. The report reveals how the passenger experience may be enhanced with a virtual platform and open ecosystem for aviation applications.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Becomes Market Representation Partner for 3GPP

    22 May 2024

    The Seamless Air Alliance continues to champion inflight innovation announcing it is now the aviation Market Representation Partner to 3GPP.

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  • SEAMLESS AIR ALLIANCE TO FOSTER INTEGRATION OF 3GPP 5G NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS (NTN) INTO THE AVIATION SECTOR

    February 22, 2024

    Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), the leading developer of global standards for Inflight Connectivity (IFC), today announced it will foster the development and integration of 3GPP specified 5G NTN into the aviation sector to enable future seamless connectivity between terrestrial and non-terrestrial satellite networks.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Launches First-of-its-Kind Certified Service Quality Program for Inflight Connectivity

    June 1, 2023

    Hamburg, 1 June 2023 – Seamless Air Alliance, the leading developer of global standards for Inflight Connectivity (IFC), today announced launch of the Seamless-Certified Service Quality program for connectivity service providers and the first member company to achieve Seamless- Certification.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance and GSMA Announce a New Collaboration to Bring Roaming to World’s Airlines

    February 21, 2023

    The Seamless Air Alliance, which continues to lead the development and implementation of Global Standards for Inflight Connectivity, and the GSMA, the global organisation unifying the world’s mobile ecosystem, today announced a collaboration that will facilitate and accelerate the availability of seamless mobile roaming onboard commercial airlines.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Announces New IFC Test Lab Advancing Data Driven Approach To Manage The Inflight Connectivity Experience

    October 25, 2022

    The lab complements the recently unveiled IFC Toolkit and reinforces the Alliance’s commitment to bring a data-driven approach to delivering high-performance inflight connectivity services

    The Seamless Air Alliance, which continues to lead the development and implementation of Global Standards for Inflight Connectivity, today announced additional advancements following its introduction of the Seamless Air Alliance IFC Performance Toolkit. A new research laboratory has been setup to extend its work on IFC performance measurement.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Members Prepare to Deliver Flexible Connectivity Systems to Airlines

    October 20, 2022

    The Seamless Air Alliance, which continues to lead the development and implementation of Global Standards for Inflight Connectivity, today announced details behind the Working Group that is putting into action the vision to deliver flexible connectivity systems to airlines.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Launches New Inflight Connectivity Analysis Toolkit to Help Airlines Enhance Their Passengers’ Connected Experience

    May 25, 2022

    The Seamless Air Alliance, which continues to lead the development and implementation of Global Standards for Inflight Connectivity, today launched an Inflight Connectivity (IFC) Analysis Toolkit to help airlines adopt vetted, trusted metrics for measuring and comparing IFC Service Quality in RFPs and performance management conversations.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Announces New Members as the Mission to Transform Inflight Connectivity Continues Apace

    April 28, 2022

    The Seamless Air Alliance, which continues to lead the development and implementation of Global Standards for Inflight Connectivity, today announced a further expansion of its membership base.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Closes the Loop on Delivering Premium Inflight Connectivity Services

    November 16 2021

    FREMONT, Calif., November 16, 2021 — Following its completion of the world’s first inflight connectivity (IFC) standard and OpenIFC API, Seamless Air Alliance today announced the completion of Seamless Release 3.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance advances inflight connectivity innovation with new Release

    October 20 2020

    California, USA, 20 October 2020: Following its publication of the world’s first inflight connectivity (IFC) standard earlier this year, Seamless Air Alliance, a global community of airlines and technology leaders driving solutions to advance inflight connectivity, today announced the completion of Seamless Release 2.0.

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  • Seamless Air Alliance announces world's first inflight connectivity standard

    February 2020

    Landmark release will open up new opportunities for airlines and mobile network operators, delivering a seamless ground-to-sky experience for passengers, while minimizing airline investments in technology upgrades

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  • Seamless Air Alliance showcases technologies enabling the future of inflight connectivity at Paris Air Show 2019

    June 17 2019

    Paris, France, 17 June 2019: The aggravations of inflight internet access will soon be a thing of the past as the next-generation of inflight connectivity is set to become a reality. The Seamless Air Alliance will demonstrate some of the key technologies that will be a part of the specification being developed by its membership of industry leading companies.

    Taking place on the first day of the Paris Air Show 2019 and with the support of its members GlobalReach Technology, Sprint and Boingo, the Seamless Air Alliance will demonstrate secure and seamless connection to high-performance inflight Wi-Fi using Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi services and discuss the opportunities that 5G presents to the airline industry…

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  • Next Generation of Inflight Connectivity Ever Closer as Seamless Air Alliance Announces Major Progress

    February 20 2019

    Barcelona, Spain February 20, 2019 –Next week at Mobile World Congress, the Seamless Air Alliance will reveal progress on its mission toward enabling the next generation of inflight connectivity. This follows a significant start for the Alliance, which has seen membership increase five-fold since the first meeting in June of last year. The Alliance has a new research laboratory setup and continues progress through its three working groups, writing specifications for the technology, requirements, and operations…

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  • Seamless Air Alliance Completes Structural Setup and Announces New Members on Mission to Transform In-Flight Connectivity

    June 4 2018

    The Alliance welcomes Nokia, Air France KLM, Aeromexico, and GOL as members

    CALIFORNIA, June 4th, 2018 – The Seamless Air Alliance – which will usher in a new era of innovation for airlines – announces the completion of its structural setup, enabling new membership beyond the founding members and the addition of Nokia, Air France KLM, Aeromexico, and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes to the Alliance. Members across a diverse group of industries will play a decisive role in enabling travelers to board any flight on any airline anywhere in the world and use their own devices to automatically connect to the Internet, with no complicated login process and no paywall to scramble over…

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  • Airbus, Delta, OneWeb, Sprint, Airtel Announce the Formation of Seamless Air Alliance Enabling Airlines to Empower Passengers with Seamless In-Cabin Connectivity Experience

    February 26 2018

    BARCELONA, February 26, 2018 –Airbus, Delta, OneWeb, Sprint, and Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) announce the formation of the Seamless Air Alliance – which will usher in a new era of innovation for airlines on all routes. By empowering member mobile operators to extend their services into airline cabins, the Seamless Air Alliance will allow them to continuously provide their customers – via satellite technology – with the same high speed, low latency connectivity from ground, to air and back again. It will also significantly reduce costs for everyone involved while creating a smooth, positive user-experience.

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