Overview
- SES and Boeing disclosed Tuesday a step toward factory installation that puts SES’s in‑cabin network into new Boeing jets during production.
- Japan Airlines chose SES for 41 widebodies that include 20 A350‑900 and 10 787‑9 linefits plus 11 787‑9 retrofits, with linefit deliveries slated to start in 2028.
- Boeing will install the full cabin network on the line and coordinate external antenna work, with initial offerability on the 737 before the 787 and full line‑fit expected around 2028.
- SES’s low‑profile electronically steered antenna switches between geostationary satellites and OneWeb’s low‑Earth‑orbit network, with current per‑aircraft speeds up to about 195 Mbps down and 32 Mbps up and next‑gen hardware described as targeting beyond 1 Gbps.
- SES reports more than 500 installations and about 1,000 commitments as it expands through Boeing and Airbus’s HBCplus program in a market where Starlink is active and Amazon unveiled an airline antenna on April 13 promising up to 1 Gbps down.