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In-flight mobiles to take off over Europe
News Emirates Airline recently rung up the first authorised in-flight mobile call on a plane travelling from Dubai to Casablanca. With a nod to public disquiet over the notion of being sardine-tinned on a plane surrounded by the inane conversations of... [08 Apr 2008]
Emirates rings up first in-flight mobile call
News Emirates airline has launched the world's first commercial in-flight mobile telephone service and will spend $27m to kit out its entire fleet with the technology. The first authorised in-flight mobile call was made at 30,000ft on 21 March on... [25 Mar 2008]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News Biometric fingerprint and iris scans will be used for screening air passengers on Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong as part of a trial at London's Heathrow Airport. The miSense trial, which began last month and... [06 Dec 2006]
Emirates joins in-flight mobile gang
News The first Emirates plane to bear the Aeromobile kit, a Boeing 777, could be in the air with mobile service from January, pending regulatory approval. Emirates has become the latest airline to announce it will be allowing travellers to use their... [09 Nov 2006]
Group sets up high-flying broadband subsidiary
News At the beginning of the year, Emirates claimed to be the first in the air with broadband as it began to roll out the Tenzing system across its fleet. On its side, Tenzing claims that its in-flight email and SMS systems are used by Cathay Pacific... [22 Jul 2004]
Iberia takes Tenzing's high-flying broadband
News On the Tenzing side, it has signed Emirates - which is claiming to be first in the sky with broadband - and a stripped-down version of its system is being used by the US domestic airlines under the Verizon Airfone JetConnect label. [06 Apr 2004]
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