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AVIONICS

EXCLUSIVE CONNECTIVITY

AGREEMENT

global business aviation solution

Aprovider Satcom Direct has
signed an exclusive deal making it the sole
connectivity supplier for Avcon Jet, the

Austria-headquartered aircraft manage-

ment and charter operator.
Satcom Direct (SD) will now supply all con-
nectivity tools for the company, including

voice and data services, flight deck commu-

nications and cyber security solutions.

Avcon Jet manages a growing mixed fleet,

consisting of more than 70 aircraft, from

offices based at 12 major international

business aviation hubs.

The solutions provided by SD software,

hardware, and infrastructure services de- Integration of third-party trip planning, and for those services. The additional focus

livered through the SD Xperience portfolio, other operational software, into the open on cyber security and ability to customise

support Avcon Jet’s needs and influenced architecture of the SD Pro platform, will add services made SD the obvious choice for

the selection process. further value to Avcon Jet operations. our needs,” said Maximillian Maruna, chief

Satcom Direct will also support an “It is imperative that our provider can operating officer for Avcon Jet.

integrated, customised hardware upgrade supply all our aircraft with the right con- “The ability to synchronize the flight oper-

roadmap to ensure that each aircraft is nectivity services, seamlessly and securely. ations of each aircraft will reduce workload

equipped with the appropriate connectivity As technology moves so rapidly, we also and make life easier for Avcon Jet, its custom-
tools, making for more efficient planning needed to know we have immediate access ers and crews,” said Michael Skou Chris-

and budgeting. to the necessary support and assistance tensen, SD vice president international. Q
AIRLINES
TENTATIVE STEPS TO
RESTORE NETWORKS

lines, which stopped flights on 21 March, IAG carrier Iberia, which is operating min-
will also resume flight operations on 15 imum services predominantly connecting

everal European operators have June. It will offer a route network of 59 Madrid to the Canary Islands, is to gradual-

Sannounced more tentati ve steps destinations between June and August. ly resume its short and medium-haul flight

to restoring their networks, including Lufthansa will from 15 June resume programme from the start of July.

the resumption of services by Lufthansa 20 more routes from Frankfurt and 34 Iberia - and its Iberia Express and Iberia

Group operators Austrian Airlines and from Munich. This will increase Lufthan- Regional units - will fly to at least 40 desti-

Brussels Airlines in June. sa’s flight schedule from around 500 to nations in July, rising to 53 destinations in
August. This represents just over a fifth of its

almost 900 weekly connections at Frank-

Austrian Airlines, which suspended
flights on 19 March, has announced it furt and Munich during June. normal short and medium-haul programme.

will resume scheduled flights to mostly The German carrier will add long-haul Iberia adds that is prepared to resume

European cities in mid-June. flights from Frankfurt to Cairo, San Jose in long-haul flights ”as soon as conditions

From 15 June, Austrian will resume Costa Rica and the Chinese cities of Beijing allow and quarantine and travel restrictions
and Shanghai. It is adding San Francisco,

are lifted in the countries served by Iberia”.

short-haul services to 27 cities including Delhi, Montreal and Seoul from Munich. Greek carrier Aegean Airlines mean-
Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London

Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Other group carriers Air Dolomiti, while will from 15 June restart flights
It will also operate flights from Vienna Edelweiss, Eurowings and Swiss are also from Thessaoloniki to four German

to Tel Aviv in Israel. The airline will add adding capacity in June. Notably low-cost cities, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and

10 more cities from 22 June. These will unit Eurowings will add 40 new European Stuttgart, as well as Larnaca in Cyprus.

destinations to its schedule and double

The carrier also plans to reinstate Tel
include Milan, Nice, Prague and Warsaw.

Austrian’s sister carrier Brussels Air- its operational fleet to up to 20 Airbus Aviv flights from the airport once travel

aircraft by the end of June.

restrictions are lifted. Q
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