Cabin Interior and Electronics
Air India Opts for Thales Avant Up Inflight Entertainment
Thales will install the equipment on 51 Boeing and Airbus airliners

Air India intends to equip 51 of its airliners with Thales’s Avant Up inflight entertainment (IFE) system. Under an agreement announced late Monday, 40 existing Boeing 777s and 787s, as well as 11 new-production 787s and Airbus A350s, will receive the new equipment in their cabins.

Avant Up features Thales’s Optiq QLED smart displays with cinematic 4K HDR picture quality and in-screen USB-A and USB-C high-speed charging ports for personal electronic devices. The Optiq system allows passengers to pair their wireless headphones to the system, which offers a pair of Bluetooth connections and built-in Wi-Fi.