LONDON: The Web-connected aircraft cabins of the future, powered by technology on show at last week's Farnborough Airshow, are offering a path to investor returns through suppliers like Cobham Plc and Thales SA.
The market for inflight wireless Internet, entertainment and communications services, driven by a flying public who increasingly want to chat, tweet, stream movies and check Facebook uninterrupted, is set to grow to US$2.1bil (RM6.65bil) by 2023 from US$440mil (RM1.39bil) in 2013, consultancy Euroconsult says.