Around 90% of passengers bring a mobile device on board and expect to use it. We install the wireless IFE you have chosen into the aircraft you already have — server restraining kits, wiring, antennas, placards and the certified parts around them.
The system itself is the easy part. What decides whether a wireless IFE retrofit works is where the server sits, how it is restrained, how antennas and wiring are routed, and which placards have to change because of it. That installation layer is what we do — neutral on the platform, with the certified hardware around it supplied under EASA Part 21G.
A wireless IFE project is rarely one order. These four pieces usually arrive as four suppliers — here they are one.
The server unit lives in an overhead bin. Our kits hold it in place and separate it from passenger luggage, so the hardware does not consume the whole bin. Built to the aircraft: base plate with guard rails, strap kit, fasteners and an overhead bin divider assembly.
EASA Part 21G Form 1 or CoCServer units and cradles, wireless access points, bin divider plates, cable routing and securing, and window antennas on each side of the aircraft. On the LEAV A320 our cabin team built the complete wiring infrastructure and tested everything down to the last connector.
Installed in your maintenance slotA wet-lease aircraft is expected to offer the cabin service of the airline whose passengers are on board. Portable systems do that for the length of the contract and come off again afterwards — the same kit logic, without a permanent installation.
Short-term and long-termEvery installation changes something written on the aircraft — a modified stowage limit, for example. Those placards and markings are updated as part of the project, and we supply cabin items such as head rest covers, safety cards and EEL cards with the documentation they need.
EASA Part 21J Minor Mod where requiredAn IFE platform is a cost until it earns something. We came into this business from the advertising side, which is why we look at both.
Alongside the installation we commercialise IFE platforms: relevant content during the flight, advertising and retail formats, inventory management and take-up rate optimisation. As pioneers in IFE(C) retail we have developed models such as real-time retail with domain whitelisting, and our approach stays tech-neutral so it scales with whichever platform you run.
On the A320 D-ANNE our cabin team built the complete wiring infrastructure, installed the AirFi LEO units with their window antennas on each side of the aircraft, and tested everything down to the last connector. In the same visit the cabin lighting was replaced with the liTeMood system from STG Aerospace.
The hardware is small. The consequence of fitting it badly is a bin your passengers cannot use, on every flight, for the life of the fleet.
All the wireless ones — Inflight Dublin, AirFi, Bluebox and PXcom among them. We are deliberately neutral on the system: you choose the platform, we make it work on the aircraft. If you have not chosen yet, we can say what each one means for bin space, antenna positions and wiring effort.
A base plate with guard rails that stop the unit sliding, Velcro restraining straps, the fasteners, and where needed an overhead bin divider assembly that keeps the rest of the bin usable for luggage. Each kit comes with an EASA Part 21G Form 1 or a Certificate of Conformity; the exact composition depends on the aircraft.
Where the installation changes the aircraft, yes — then it runs as an EASA Part 21J Minor Modification, produced with our Part 21J DOA and Part 21G POA partners or under your own Part 145 authority, with the material supplied under Part 21G. Portable kits for short-term operations are a lighter case. Either way the affected placards, such as a modified stowage limit, are part of the same package.
That is one of the main reasons operators come to us. A portable IFE system gives a wet-lease aircraft the cabin service of the lessee airline for the length of the contract, without a permanent installation. The same range covers the opposite case: durable, permanent installations for aircraft that stay in your fleet.
Yes. On the LEAV A320 the AirFi LEO installation and a full LED lighting replacement with the liTeMood system from STG Aerospace ran in the same visit. If the cabin is open, doing both is faster than coming back.
Which platform you have chosen, how many aircraft, and which maintenance visit it should go into. If the platform is still open, that is a good moment to talk too.