Seatback Messaging

Now passengers can use e-mail and short message service (SMS) right from an aircraft seat without a laptop. Seatback Messaging, developed by ARINC and Panasonic Avionics Corporation, is an inexpensive, versatile, and convenient in-flight entertainment (IFE) application for business and commercial airlines.

Using existing IFE infrastructures, you can provide your passengers with full e-mail and SMS capabilities. They can send and receive messages anywhere in the world with the convenience of a touch-screen virtual keyboard or handset device.

Efficient as well as convenient, the innovative IFE system benefits airlines as well. You set the prices for the service—alter them in-flight if need be—and let your passengers do the rest. They make payments through the IFE application, with real-time credit card validation, saving flight attendants valuable time.

Seatback Messaging opens a whole new advertising medium too. Airlines can add their graphics to e-mail, create links to their web sites, use SMS taglines, and change them for special promotions.

Keep your passengers connected and promote your own services with Seatback Messaging—the versatile and convenient system designed for you and your customers.