Inmarsat extends contract with Garuda Indonesia

Hong Kong, March 31 -- More than 175 aircraft in the Garuda Group are to be equipped with the Inmarsat GX inflight broadband solution, including A320s, A330s, B737s and B777s. The agreement is an extension of a 10-year contract between Inmarsat, Indonesian wireless technology provider Mahata Aero Teknologi, Lufthansa Technik and Lufthansa Systems with Garuda subsidiary, Citilink. The service went live with the domestic carrier in January to be followed by its launch with Garuda later this year.

Lufthansa Technik will manage the hardware, engineering, installation design and certification of the project. Lufthansa Systems will facilitate the software platform and integration based on its BoardConnect open architecture.

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