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Inmarsat, Cranfield University Dissect Connectivity Benefits for Aviation
A new report by Inmarsat and Cranfield University asserts that aviation's future should be built on 21 advances in digital connectivity over the next 15 years..

Satellite communications group Inmarsat and Cranfield University this week published a report that explores how so-called digital connectivity will revolutionize aviation in the next decade, fueled largely by the aviation leaders’ changes in priorities brought on my sustainability and passenger behavior since the start of the Covid pandemic. The report, titled Why the future of aviation starts with connectivity, features a Digital Connectivity Timeline, which plots the rate at which the industry will adopt 21 technological innovations over the next five, 10, and 15 years.

For the five-year timeframe, the Inmarsat and Cranfield University researchers explored technologies in advanced stages of development; in the timeframe spanning five to 10 years, it concentrates on technologies now in their pilot phases ahead of market adoption; and, finally, the report examines concepts under consideration for product or service offering development beyond the next decade.