Inmarsat’s OneFi passenger engagement system wins ‘New technological know-how innovation’ award
Inmarsat gained leading honours at the Aviation Innovation Awards previous night time, just after its ground-breaking OneFi passenger encounter platform was topped winner in the ‘New Engineering Innovation’ class.
The accolade was introduced during the Aviation Yearly Gala Evening 2022 in Dubai. The judging panel recommended OneFi as an ‘innovative action change’ for airways, enabling them to enhance the electronic onboard working experience for passengers and maximise returns on their inflight connectivity investments.
The judges recognised OneFi’s ongoing impact on the aviation business, praising its exclusive means to convey jointly a various range of inflight providers, content material characteristics and large-quality broadband access for travellers. OneFi was also praised for enabling airways to broaden and diversify their earnings streams by means of qualified articles, electronic commerce and advertising and marketing.
The award arrives fewer than a month after Inmarsat unveiled the outcomes of its 2022 Passenger Working experience Survey, which uncovered 77% of airline travellers globally explain inflight Wi-Fi as significant to them. Extra than 80% reported they would rebook with an airline that offered top quality Wi-Fi.
Guillaume Vivet, Vice President Airline Proposition and Expertise at Inmarsat Aviation, stated “We have lengthy been concentrated on serving to airlines attain the complete potential of inflight connectivity, enabling them to improve their passenger practical experience and unlock important new profits streams. Profitable this award is testomony to individuals attempts and a welcome recognition from the business, specifically simply because we produced OneFi as a direct final result of the suggestions we been given from airways about how they want to advantage from inflight connectivity.”
OneFi was introduced last year and has been chosen by SAUDIA, the nationwide carrier of Saudi Arabia, for its fleet of 35 Airbus A321neo and Airbus A321XLR aircraft. It will allow SAUDIA travellers to accessibility various inflight solutions in true-time from the ease and comfort of their seats. OneFi’s next airline purchaser is established to be announced in the coming months.
In Oct 2022, Inmarsat released a sequence of bundles for OneFi that span loyalty, purchasing and enjoyment, supporting the ongoing recovery of airlines and furnishing even higher earnings prospects. The bundles deliver the additional versatility and personalisation that quite a few airlines have to have to build a customised electronic onboard expertise for passengers. This indicates airlines can pick and pay back for bundles of characteristics as and when they need them, with the capability to launch them all at as soon as, or incrementally in line with their needs.
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