We are delighted to announce the launch of our next generation Everhub™ Portable Wireless Server and are proud to produce the most powerful and advanced wireless IFE solution available to our airline partners. Moreover, our server is DO-160G certified, making it the safest and most reliable solution on the market.
Our state-of-the-art hardware is complimented by our Everhub™ software platform which is fully customisable and tailored to our clients’ requirements. This allows airlines to create an immersive and user-friendly wireless IFE experience, with built-in ancillary revenue generators, and informative data analytics through our Everhub Control Centre back-office system.
The server can be powered by batteries or directly from the aircraft. It can also deliver secure, high definition, browser-based DRM content to 75 passengers per unit. The Everhub™ portable server minimises logistics costs through its hot-swappable battery configuration and remote loading of content.
With our global reputation as the industry’s leading content service provider, every aspect of our wireless IFE solution has been developed and processed in-house. This ensures cost and delivery efficiencies and as a result, truly backs up our stance as the only true end-to-end wireless IFE provider.
Key Wireless Features:
“The next-generation Everhub™ server further enhances Inflight Dublin’s position as the only true end-to-end wireless IFE solution provider in the market. With the launch of our own server hardware, we are in complete and direct control of all the elements that airlines need in order to implement a wireless solution, namely hardware, software, content (including Early Window Hollywood movies) and design services”.
John White, CEO of Inflight Dublin
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David Miller, Inflight Dublin’s CTO added “We started looking at an option for our own server based on our experience providing wireless IFE solutions on a number of fixed and portable platforms. We fed this learning into the design of our new server to provide a robust and scalable system which seamlessly integrates both our cloud and aircraft hosted services to deliver the best passenger and airline experience in a single offering.”
The next generation Everhub Portable Server will be making its debut at this year’s APEX Expo in Los Angeles alongside our dedicated team of IFE specialists at Inflight Dublin Booth #1307 from the 10th-12th September.
To schedule an appointment or receive further information about our new server, do not hesitate to contact us at mail@inflightdublin.com
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Every summer, our dedicated Social Committee organises a fun, team-bonding activity for all our staff at Inflight Dublin.
This year’s activity was Painting and Prosecco at The Jar in Dublin city centre!
The image provided for everyone to replicate was a silhouette shot from The Lion King, to celebrate the newly released live-action remake of the classic.
A Painting and Prosecco artist went around the room and guided everyone through each stage of the painting process as can be seen above.
Here is everyone with their finished masterpieces!
Following the painting, the Social Committee organised a quiz with wonderful prizes to be won, alongside the glory of beating some of your colleagues…
Here is the winning team with their medals and free drinks!
The activities were followed by a great night of food, drinks and dancing in our own reserved bar and terrace.
Inflight Dublin prides itself on having an excellent social and inclusive environment and taking the greatest care of its employees!
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Inflight Dublin is delighted to announce that several of our airline partners have been successful at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2019 in multiple categories. We take great pride in the recognition of our partners’ outstanding capabilities in the industry, in relation to IFE and also across the board of passenger experience.
Skytrax is an independent customer forum which has become a leading review site for airline, airport and associated air travel traveller reviews. It is recognised for its Airline and Airport Star Rating, the World Airline Awards and Airport Awards.
The World Airline Awards have taken place annually since 1999, following the launch of Skytrax’s airline customer satisfaction survey. Among this year’s winners are many of our own clients, which we are thrilled about.
The awards are divided into categories ranging from staff and cabin crew, to cabin classes and value for money. The survey submissions are free of charge and the 2019 awards received 21.65 million eligible survey entries which contributed to the final results.
On behalf of Inflight Dublin, we would like to congratulate our airline partners on their well-deserved awards:
Air Mauritius – Most Improved Airline in Africa
Ethiopian Airlines – Best Airline in Africa
Flynas – Best Low-Cost Airline in Middle East & Best Airline Staff in Middle East
Norwegian – World’s Best Long Haul Low-Cost Airline & Best Low-Cost Airline in Northern Europe
South African Airways – Best Airline Staff in Africa, Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness in Africa & Best Cabin Crew in Africa
TUI – Best Leisure Airline in Europe
We take pride in contributing to each of our airlines’ passenger experience on board and look forward to celebrating their further success in the future.
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Inflight Dublin, a leading Inflight Entertainment (IFE) provider, has been awarded the contract to provide the latest IFE content to TUI, the world’s leading tourism group. TUI owns five European airlines and is the ninth largest airline operator in Europe. The TUI airlines fly more than 27 million guests per year to more than 150 destinations worldwide departing from more than 60 airports in eleven European countries. The collaboration with TUI aims to further improve the airline’s passenger experience through innovative content. The new relationship supports TUI’s dedication to elevating passenger experience to new heights.
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Inflight Dublin covers licensing, programming and delivery of inflight content for the TUI airlines in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Nordics. Content includes blockbuster movies, television programmes, eclectic audio selections, and broadcasts in 8 languages (English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish). The new IFE content is available across the fleet of TUI’s Boeing 787 and 767 (in-seat IFE) and the Boeing 737NG (overhead IFE).
“We are delighted that TUI has recognized our expertise in IFE content and chosen to partner with us. It gives us great pride to work with an industry leader like TUI, and we look forward to providing the greatest level of service to their member airlines and customers,” said John White, Inflight Dublin’s CEO.
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Get in touch with us today to find out how Inflight Dublin can help you transform your airlines in-flight entertainment experience by providing the broadest selection of content, a range of design and digital services, and the Everhub wireless IFE solution.
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Inflight Dublin, a global provider of IFE content and wireless solutions, has been appointed by SriLankan Airlines to provide inflight entertainment services for the next three years.
SriLankan Airlines is the national airline of Sri Lanka and an award-winning carrier that flies to over 111 destinations across 48 countries. The airline is focused on providing passengers with a reliable, safe, and pleasant travel experience.
SriLankan’s reputation for a first-class service will be enhanced through the collaboration with Inflight Dublin and the provision of a substantial collection of Hollywood new release titles, choice classics, international movies, popular television shows and a diverse selection of audio content.
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“We are very excited to begin this new chapter with Inflight Dublin. Inflight entertainment is a key area of improving passenger experience and by working with IFD we will now be able to offer a superior level of service. All the latest content being made available to our passengers supports our goal of providing our customers with truly a unique travel experience.”
Vipula Gunatilleka, CEO of SriLankan Airlines.
The partnership between Inflight Dublin and SriLankan Airlines will deliver a huge boost to the passenger experience through the provision and extensive promotion of inflight entertainment that is of the highest quality and most up-to-date.
“We are delighted that SriLankan Airlines recognises Inflight Dublin’s experience in the area of content and innovation, and we are very proud to have been awarded the contract. We look forward to providing them with the highest standard of service for the benefits of its passengers.”
John White, CEO of Inflight Dublin.
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Global provider of inflight entertainment and wireless solutions Inflight Dublin has been awarded Icelandair’s contract for inflight entertainment.
The partnership with Inflight Dublin will significantly improve Icelandair’s passenger experience through an extensive catalogue of fresh content that aligns with the airline’s desire to provide the best entertainment for its customers. Content will include an inventory of recent Oscar-winning films as well as a large selection of family-favourite classics, along with the choice to view numerous popular comedy and drama television boxsets. The passenger offering will also include a collection of locally produced movies, television shows, audio albums, and audiobooks in native Icelandic.
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Operating to over 45 gateways across Europe, the United States, and Canada, Icelandair has over 80 years of experience in making the passenger journey as memorable as the awe-inspiring landscape of Iceland itself.
“We are absolutely delighted to begin working with Icelandair and continue our expansion across Europe. Inflight Dublin’s vision of offering the very best content and innovative services to passengers aligns with Icelandair’s dedication to delivering an excellent passenger experience. It gives us great pride to work with such a recognisable brand, and we look forward to providing the best possible level of service.”
John White, Inflight Dublin’s CEO.
Icelandair operates frequent flights to Dublin from over 25 airports across Europe, Canada and the U.S. To learn more: https://www.icelandair.com/en-gb/flights/dublin/
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ARVR Innovate is an annual conference and expo which gives those in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) industries a platform to showcase the capabilities of these emerging technologies and the benefits they pose for businesses that want to gain a competitive edge in terms of productivity and/or customer engagement.
The event is held in Dublin each year and is attended by an extensive variety of professionals ranging from investors and developers to entrepreneurs and innovators, all with a keen interest in the growing industry.
Inflight Dublin has been branching out into the AR sector by developing an innovative AR platform which can provide enhanced auxiliary revenue options on board, alongside our routine high quality and up to date content. We have worked closely with Dr. Brian Vaughan, Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Media at the Technology University Dublin (TUD), and his team to fully create and implement the software to be incorporated and offered to airlines within our Everhub wireless IFE platform.
The demo involved the user being able to overlay a commodity typically sold on board a commercial flight, such as a watch, in order to aid them in their purchasing decisions. This experience involves hovering a mobile or tablet device over the SMART icons to gain access to a range of services directly with their devices. Other elements of the on-board AR platform include Entertainment, Duty-free shopping, Digital magazines, Food and Beverages, and Destination services.
A key benefit of incorporating AR into the IFE system is the reduction in weight for aircrafts which in turn leads to a reduction in fuel costs. For example, United Airlines saved nearly $300,000 a year by reducing the weight of each copy of their magazine by 0.03kg (CBS News, 2018). Alongside cost-savings is the continual benefits of keeping up with trends in the industry in order to provide the greatest experience for passengers possible.
Source: ‘Airlines cut operating costs by helping planes lose weight’ – CBS News, 2018
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The Inflight Dublin team were delighted to welcome Dr. Joe Leader, CEO of APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association) , to our head office in Dublin on May 3rd to discuss the future advancements in the aviation industry with our very own CEO John White.
The Airline Passenger Experience Association is a network of the world’s leading airlines, suppliers and related companies committed to elevating the level of the airline passenger experience. The association offers members a wide range of opportunities to excel in the airline passenger experience industry by keeping them current with the latest industry news, trends and developments and by helping them develop relationships with clients and colleagues from around the world.
Joe Leader has been a leading executive for more than two decades across technology and aviation companies. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Emory University, MBA in technology management, and conducted his business Ph.D. research on accelerating technology adoption in aviation.
Inflight Dublin is proud to be a member of APEX and to have such a close relationship with its CEO, Joe Leader.
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Regardless of potentially polarizing reactions, some of the greatest movies of all time have been based on or drawn influence from books – The Shawshank Redemption, The Lord of the Rings, Apocalypse Now, and The Shining to name a few. A who’s who of iconic filmmakers have rolled the dice and successfully adapted these winding narratives into condensed and satisfying cinematic experiences, often taking risky creative liberties to make the most impactful films possible.
This month on the IFD Podcast, two of our in-house bookworms, Aoife and Eimear, take a look at a few of their favourite book-to-movie adaptations, exploring the history of the titles and drawing comparisons between the different mediums.
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First up on Aoife’s list is David Fincher’s 1999 classic, Fight Club. Based on the novel of the same name, written by Chuck Palahniuk and released just 3 years prior to its visual counterpart, Fight Club has been labelled as a “coming of age film” by Fincher. The movie amassed a loyal cult following in the years after its release, featuring strong performances from Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, and Edward Norton, along with one of the most memorable endings in recent memory. Aoife explains that while it took heavy influence from the source material, the movie arguably rescued the book from eventually fading into obscurity.
“his characters feel confined by societal norms”
Aoife O'Neill Gormley
Aoife’s second choice was Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the iconic 1963 children’s picture book, Where The Wild Things Are. An unconventional movie with an atmosphere that can be difficult to define, it perfectly reflects the surreal nature of Maurice Sendak’s original illustrations while simultaneously managing to feel like its own entirely unique experience. Aoife discusses the challenges facing a director when handling such a treasured work.
Eimear decided to hone in on some classics from the high school teen movies of the 90s, taking 1995’s Clueless as her first point of discussion. Loosely based on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, Eimear discusses how the film reappropriates the setting, characters, and themes to resonate with a modern audience, but maintains strong parallels to the novel with regard to its narrative structure, and how Amy Heckerling’s clever reimagining of the material ushered in an entirely new sub-genre of classic texts framed through a contemporary lens.
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Next up on Eimear’s list was Gil Junger’s 1999 rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You. A loose modernization of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, the film abides by Eimear’s case for the 90s-era obsession with recontextualizing older writings to create compelling modern stories. It acted as a springboard to success for a number of young actors, providing breakthrough roles for Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Heath Ledger.
“the spirit of Emma’s character is carried over to a new audience”
Eimear O'Donoghue
Are you a book-purist that believes treasured material should be left untouched? Or do you welcome films based on your favourite books with open arms? We’d love to know what you consider to be some of the best adaptations we’ve seen to date, or what books you’d like to see on the big screen in the future!
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Inflight Dublin currently works with over 50 African distributors providing specialised content for some of the largest airlines within the region including Ethiopian Airlines, Egypt Air, Royal Air Moroc, and Kenya Airways.
Clark and Hampton, Closer Pictures, FilmOne Distributors, iROKO, Gravel Road, Rififi Pictures, Rushlake Media, Sahel Sounds, and SaniFilms are just some of the African film distributors we work in partnership with. When it comes to TV distributors, Inflight Dublin works with the largest distributors of African TV content such as Africa XP, Buni TC, Africa 24 Media, Cote Quest, The Africa Channel, Vox Africa, and Wananchi.
We also offer the widest variety of African dialects including Afrikaans, Arabic, Hausa, Oromo, Swahili, Shona, and Zula, to name but a few and of course including English, French, and Portuguese.
Our team are industry experts in editing, encoding, and multilingual subtitling, which is complemented by long-standing partnerships with all major hardware providers. This ensures that whichever IFE system your fleet is operating on, screening content provided by Inflight Dublin will be a seamless process. Our in-house content specialists are also accustomed to cultural sensitivities which allow airlines to tailor content and featured footage adhering to their passenger demographics.
At Inflight Dublin, our African content is not limited to just Movies or TV. With a comprehensive library of over 10,000 musical tracks from some of the biggest artists across the African music scene allowing your clients to listen to their favourite music whilst cruising to their next destination.
Inflight Dublin’s strong relationships with all major distributors across the continent allows us to deliver unrivalled African content to our clients at cost effective rates which in turn allows our clients to enhance their passengers’ experience on board via economical means.
If you’re interested in finding out more about our CSP services, or indeed any of our other IFE services, get in touch with us now and discover how we can help you transform your passengers’ experience on board.
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