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improve the health and wellness of passengers during different
phases of the flight, Panasonic’s Premium Seat Lighting solution,
uses specialized sleep and wake algorithms to tailor the cabin
lighting for specific times of flight such as meal services, where
the lighting is optimized to improve food colour saturation whilst
reading lights are designed to reduce eye strain for passengers.
The nanoe solution deodorizes the air in the cabin and around
a passenger’s seating area by applying low voltage to moisture
which bursts into nano-sized electrostatic atomized particles
at a rate of 480 billion nm particles per second. It also neutral-
izes air and surface viruses, bacteria, molds, and pet-related
allergens.

In Wi-Fi We Trust
ir France launched commercial high-speed Wi-Fi ser-
vices on its first two aircraft – an Airbus A330 and a
Boeing 777, in September and has named the offering
Aas Air France CONNECT. By 2020, all Air France wide-
body aircraft will offer passengers access to high-speed Wi-Fi
on long-haul flights. The airline is now equipping its jetliners
with Gogo’s 2Ku high-speed satellite connectivity system. On
long-haul flights Air France CONNECT will allow passengers to
stream and download content on a high speed internet con-
nection throughout the flight for 30 euros. All of Air France’s
long-haul fleet of 83 aircraft will receive Gogo’s 2Ku systems and
the entire fleet is to be Wi-Fi equipped by 2020. U.S. based Gogo
Inc. has quickly made a name for itself as a global provider of
broadband connectivity products and services for aviation and
its most recent successes have been the launch of its services
on Air Canada’s international wide body fleets, Iberia Airlines
and Alaska Airlines. It has also achieved STC for A321NEO and
this will be a strong contributor to its future growth. Gogo has
continued to improve the reliability of its 2Ku high-speed satel-
lite connectivity systems continue and announced an average
availability of over 97% in the combined months of June 2018
and July 2018, across all airline customers.

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