滚动每日更新01/27/2024
次 【汉莎集团选择Viasat进行机上连接升级
汉莎集团已选择Viasat为另外150多架飞机配备欧洲航空网络（EAN）机上连接（IFC）系统。该系统包括小型、轻型、低阻力终端，将安装在德国汉莎航空公司、瑞士航空公司和奥地利航空公司的机队中，包括空中客车A320、A320neos和A220。
EAN将Viasat提供的S波段卫星覆盖与德国电信运营的地面组件网络相结合，德国电信是Viasat和汉莎集团的长期合作伙伴，旨在创造“杰出的泛欧IFC体验”。Viasat表示，该服务可以支持IFE内容流和其他高带宽要求。
汉莎集团旗下的航空公司最近发布了一个新版本的FlyNet机上门户，该门户将在配备EAN的飞机上使用。乘客可以使用其旅行ID或里程及更多登录信息通过门户登录机内连接系统。该门户网站还提供信息，如机上食品和饮料菜单、免税优惠、广告等。
乘坐短途航班的瑞士乘客将可以免费上网，使用聊天和通讯服务，如WhatsApp和Facebook Messenger，使他们能够在整个飞行过程中免费发送和接收无限量的文字和图片信息。瑞士客人还可以付费上网、使用电子邮件或社交媒体平台，以及流媒体和VPN服务。
德国电信机内和连接服务副总裁David Fox表示：“EAN是机内连接的游戏规则改变者。该服务完全适应欧洲独特的电信基础设施，并为乘客在欧洲大陆上空飞行时提供卓越的连接体验。EAN还提供了一个高度引人注目的商业案例，运营商由于其重量轻，体积小，低维护的设备。”
这一公告延续了两家公司之间成功、持久的合作关系。Inmarsat最近被Viasat收购，自2015年以来一直为汉莎集团提供Ka波段IFC服务。该连接解决方案已经搭载在汉莎集团240架窄体飞机上。
Vita集团将于2024年收购Paustian Airtex
Vita集团制造飞机座椅的几个部件。图片：维塔集团
Vita集团的航空和铁路业务Metzo宣布正在收购Paustian Airtex公司，该公司是航空业皮革和纺织产品的专家，产品包括座椅套、口袋、窗帘、地板和面板。
在一份声明中，Metzo表示，收购Paustian Airtex符合Vita集团的创新和合作重点，Paustian将为Metzo带来更强的裁剪和缝纫能力，以及提高其服务的广度。
该公司声明称，此次收购标志着VITA集团的旅程迈出了重要一步，该公司有望在动态航空内饰市场继续取得成功。
维塔集团正在与Paustian Airtex的现有客户和供应商密切合作，以确保平稳过渡。Vita集团在德国和波兰拥有运营基地，此次收购将扩大其在航空和铁路领域的能力，提高其市场占有率。
集团首席执行官Omar Hoek代表The Vita集团表示:“此次收购是我们扩大航空和铁路市场解决方案的雄心的一步。Paustian是一家备受尊敬的公司，拥有经验丰富的员工队伍，我们期待与这支团队合作，为我们的客户提供支持，并在航空和铁路市场提供高质量和创新的解决方案。”
没有熊孩子的航班能“起飞”吗？
荷兰 Corendon 航空公司开始在其航班上提供成人专用区的 最新消息 引起了全球媒体的广泛关注。这样做是正确的，因为它似乎乘客一直呼吁这项服务根据 旁观 者 发表的一篇文章
科伦顿从阿姆斯特丹到加勒比海库拉索岛的航线将在飞机的前部有一个专门的路段，16岁以上的老人可以享受“和平与宁静”。该航空公司表示，这一举措将改善机上所有人的体验——无论是带孩子旅行还是不带孩子旅行。
虽然这一举措很可能会受到很多乘客的欢迎，但业内人士是怎么想的呢？这种趋势真的会“起飞”吗？而采购商和供应商需要做些什么来利用它呢？我们采访了几位来自旅游技术分布空间的专家，了解他们的反应。
Atmosphere Research Group的Henry Harteveldt指出，目前酒店行业已经提供了16岁以上的旅游服务，一些邮轮公司在不同的船只上提供“仅限成人”的区域或设施，还有一些旅游运营商专注于成人旅行，他建议进入这个领域的任何人都要先做好研究。
他提出的考虑因素包括：“您是否有足够的客户使这一努力值得？会盈利吗这将有利地区分你的品牌吗？你是否能够通过所有的销售渠道——包括旅行社，如果你使用它们的话？
“如果答案是肯定的，一个强大而全面的营销策略——和预算——将是至关重要的。仅仅依靠搜索引擎优化、搜索和社交媒体营销来创建知名度和吸引兴趣是不够的。你需要一个整合的营销活动，包括公关、相关媒体广告、有针对性的电子邮件、促销活动——当然，还有SEO、SEM和社交媒体营销。”
只有成年人的客舱区域或航班可以使一个宁静的旅行体验。图片来源:Belvera Partners/Adobe Stock
要想成功，这个想法将需要航班的卖方和B2B买家的投资：价格比较网站WayAway的Janis Dzenis说：“旅游供应商和中介机构需要仔细考虑如何销售和推广这项新服务。”
“目前，成人专属航班不是消费者的典型搜索词——许多人不知道这现在是一个真正的选择。这就需要一个公关或营销活动，以及新技术，可以帮助成人专用航班出现在预订流程中。在线旅行社和元搜索公司应该考虑为这种新兴的服务添加一个过滤器，并考虑在自己的网站上引导人们找到它，因为这不是人们会自然而然地知道他们可以搜索到的东西。”
这不仅仅是航空公司从这一成功中受益。“旅行的卖家和住宿的买家也应该思考如何最大限度地利用这一新趋势，”来自全球旅游分销商Did at travel的Gareth Matthews补充道。“这可能是一个很好的机会，出售最终的成人仅包度假，例如。酒店已经掌握了仅限成人入住的概念，许多酒店拥有非常成功的商业模式，以及忠诚的客户和强大的分销网络。现在，如果能将其与成人专用航班打包，对旅行者、分销商和供应商来说将是一个三赢的局面。”
PrimeTravel是一家快速发展的B2B旅游分销商，在全球范围内提供住宿服务，其首席执行官Haluk Kayhan也基本同意这一观点，他补充道：“对于零售旅行社来说，面对面坐着或通过电话销售，这为旅行增值和个性化提供了一个独特的机会——他们可以判断旅行者是否可能对成人客舱体验感兴趣，而在线卖家无法做到这一点。因此，我们建议考虑这一点的航空公司首先探索零售销售渠道路线。因此，成人专用航班的前景为寻求宁静旅程的旅客和航空业提供了一个令人兴奋的机会。”
Faced with cheap drones, the United States and Russia are in trouble!
The U.S. Navy Times reported on the 23rd that although U.S. Navy destroyers shot down dozens of drones launched by the Houthi armed forces in Yemen in the Red Sea, Lieutenant General McClain, commander of the U.S. Navy Surface Fleet Command, was full of frustration: "10 years The USS Ponce amphibious landing ship began testing laser weapons a few years ago. Now 10 years have passed, why do we still not have something that can be deployed?" The US Navy ship-based laser weapon test report stated that laser weapons are due to their low combat costs.
Considered an ideal weapon to deal with Houthi armed drones - suicide drones assembled from cheap parts usually cost only a few thousand dollars, while the "Standard 2" anti-aircraft missiles used by the United States to intercept them cost millions of dollars , by comparison, laser weapons cost only $13 per shot.But what dissatisfies the top brass of the U.S. Navy is that this technology has not yet achieved actual combat capabilities.As early as 2009 to 2012, the U.S. Navy successfully tested early ship-based laser weapon systems, and subsequently launched multiple laser weapon projects, including the "Naval Optical Dazzling Interceptor" and the "Navy Surface Laser Weapon System" - Increment 1" etc.But now when the U.S. Navy conflicts with the Houthis, these laser weapons still do not have actual combat capabilities.Also worried about dealing with cheap drones are the parties involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Shortly after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict began, both sides invariably discovered the huge role of consumer-grade multi-rotor drones in battlefield reconnaissance, situational awareness, and reconnaissance and calibration.
U.S. Navy ship-based laser weapon test
When the Russian army invested a large number of suicide drones/cruise missiles to attack targets in the rear of Ukraine at the end of 2022, the Ukrainian army responded tit-for-tat by using traversing aircraft to hang anti-tank rocket warheads to hunt down Russian armored vehicles.In the 2023 war, relying on comprehensive minefield obstruction, artillery fire obstruction, and finally using suicide traversing aircraft to "make up for the damage" has become the standard anti-tank tactic of both Russia and Ukraine.Faced with drones that seem to be everywhere on the battlefield, Russia and Ukraine have equipped a large number of anti-drone jamming guns on the front lines, which are specifically designed to interfere with the signals of commercial-grade rotary-wing drones.
For example, at the Russian "Army-2023" exhibition in 2023, the Russian army exhibited the latest T-80BVM main battle tank. In addition to covering the whole body with "fossil" heavy reactive armor, it is used to defend against suicide traversing aircraft launched from the side or rear. In addition to the offensive, it is also equipped with a "breakwater" drone jammer on the top of the turret, which is said to be able to interfere with drone remote control signals within a range of 1 kilometer.According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, during the Russian Black Sea Fleet exercise in early January this year, an anti-drone exercise using the "Pantsir-S1" air defense missile system was also specially organized. In the near future, it is planned to use a new generation of pocket anti-drone anti-drone missiles. Enter the Russia-Ukraine conflict for actual combat testing.
But so far, the methods to deal with these cheap drones still have many shortcomings.The first is the problem of "difficulty in discovery" for such light and small drones.Traditional battlefield surveillance and warning radars often set "speed gate limits". Aerial targets below a certain speed will be filtered as clutter. Currently, low-altitude light and small targets such as cheap drones are often "ignored" by the radar. At the same time, This type of UAV flies at an extremely low altitude and the target reflection cross section is too small. Even if the warning radar can detect the target, the interception distance is often too close, making it difficult for the air defense system to respond in time.
In addition, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine proved that radar cannot maintain a long-term monitoring state and can easily form loopholes in complex battlefield environments, allowing cheap drones to "take advantage of the loopholes."Secondly, existing anti-drone means also have their own shortcomings.Brian Clark, director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute, an American think tank, said a laser weapon must be aimed at the drone and focused for several seconds to generate enough heat to burn it out, meaning it can only fire once It is difficult for a target to cope with the attack of swarm drones.
Moreover, common heavy fog or windy weather at sea will also affect the combat effectiveness of laser weapons.In August 2022, the U.S. destroyer USS Preble was equipped with laser weapons specifically designed to intercept drones and small speedboats. However, the U.S. military still included troubleshooting and reliability improvements for the system in the fiscal year 2024 budget. etc. have compiled a large budget, implying poor reliability.The high-power microwave weapons being developed by the United States can interfere with or damage the electronic equipment of drones and have the ability to deal with cluster targets.
However, its related technology is still immature, and has the disadvantages of high energy consumption, bulky energy storage devices, and inability to maneuver. Combat.The "breakwater" UAV jammer equipped by the Russian army for the T-80BVM main battle tank performed generally in actual combat. There are problems such as the limited frequency band that can be interfered with and the possibility of affecting the communication of one's own tanks after activation.In short, how to face the threat of cheap drones on modern battlefields is a brand new topic for all countries.
