Job Heimerikx, Chief Executive of AirFi, says his company has supplied equipment for 170 aircraft in less than two years but deliveries scheduled for 3Q and 4Q16 are 'staggering'. Part of the reason for this is the problems encountered by competitors who are also trying to fit a win IFE system into a catering box but have run into EASA certification problems. He says the Dutch company, which started out as MI Airline, is supported by the Mainport Innovation Fund, founded by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Schiphol Group, Delft University ofTechnology and Rabobank. As a result, there has always been an understanding of aviation safety requirements, which always come first. This, he says, 'separates the men from the boys', or from those who have approached the market with more commercially available technology.
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