[Avionics Magazine 11-3-2016] Gogo announced its third quarter 2016 earnings, with a record quarterly revenue of $147 million, an increase of 17 percent from the same period last year. Here is a breakdown of their activity in the third quarter:
- Air France-KLM selected Gogo’s 2Ku technology for its existing long-haul fleet, with an option to install 2Ku on additional aircraft in the future. European airline partners now include Air France-KLM, British Airways, Iberia and Virgin Atlantic for a total of nearly 300 aircraft awards.
- Gogo announced the development of its next generation air-to-ground network for business and commercial aircraft operating in North America. The network, which will employ both Gogo’s current licensed ATG spectrum and the unlicensed 2.4 GHz spectrum, is expected to increase peak speeds to the aircraft to 100 Mbps and leverage Gogo’s existing ground network infrastructure.
- A partnership with Phasor, a developer of modular and electronically steerable antennas, to develop low profile, electronically-steerable antennas for in-flight connectivity applications.
- Received regulatory approvals required to offer in-flight connectivity service on international flights over China and launched service in partnership with China Telecom Satellite.
- Gogo Business Aviation partnered with Garmin, JetFuelX and FltPlan.com to bring a variety of new cockpit and operational applications to pilots of light jets and turboprops through Gogo’s ATG 1000 system.