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FlightPath3D announced today that during Q1/2021, their install base has surpassed 3,000 aircraft and that they're looking forward to continued and accelerated growth throughout 2021.

Duncan Jackson, FlightPath3D President, says, "We're seeing absolute signs of recovery in flights and see good growth going forward through 2021. We're optimistic about the market and expect to surpass 4,000 aircraft within a year."

Today FlightPath3D announced general availability for its inflight VTOL 3D Map application. The moving map features a direct point to point flight travel set in a game-like 3D interactive experience with high-resolution satellite imagery, immersive virtual reality cockpit head-up-display, and VTOL 360 view.

VTOL, vertical take-off and landing, enables a passenger to travel directly from point A to point B, instead of the traditional airport to airport routing. VTOL is highly beneficial to the future of civilian travel and military applications as it enables touch down and take-off from a city helipad, yacht, or private location, rather than an airfield.

The FlightPath3D and Gogo partnership announced today sets a new standard for inflight entertainment (IFE) in business aviation with the launch of Gogo Vision 360, which includes an upgraded 3D moving map.

FlightPath3D President Duncan Jackson says, “We’re delighted to be partnering with Gogo on their upgraded premium IFE service, Gogo Vision 360. As a leading provider of reliable inflight connectivity and entertainment, they deserve the most interactive, innovative, and irresistible map.”

FlightPath3D, the global leader in moving map innovation and technology, announces today that Flying Over Places is now included as a new view in all 3D map products. A retrofit is available for all existing 3D map installs.

FlightPath3D President Duncan Jackson said, "Flying Over Places significantly expands our map feature set with the integration of over 50,000 points of interest (POIs) that auto-play as the flight progresses, providing historical information about landmarks, attractions, and places as they're flown over en route.”

There is no shortage of predictions about how inflight entertainment will evolve in a post-pandemic world. Will airlines grow to favor wireless-only solutions, and ultimately eschew seatback touchscreen monitors? Or will in-seat IFE be seen as an ideal mechanism for imparting new safety protocols to passengers on long-haul flights? Whichever way the landscape evolves, popular inflight moving map software provider FlightPath3D says it is positioned to support its airline customers’ needs, and is setting the scene for them to drive fresh ancillary revenue streams.

FlightPath3D is building atop its popular moving map with higher resolution imagery and features to further enrich the in-flight entertainment experience while increasing sponsorship revenue and analytics benefits for airlines.

When FlightPath3D learned one of its airline customers was installing 4K seatback screens, it saw an opportunity to get ahead of the curve and went to work on a higher resolution, crisper moving map that could offer the same satellite, window and cockpit views its customers already knew, but in finer detail.

Map provider FlightPath3D has offered a Kids Map since 2014. It features interactive 3D animals (the only one to do so, the company says) as well as geographical information and landmarks.

“The map remains the most-watched piece of content displaying on any IFE system,” FlightPath3D’s Vice-President of Marketing, Jon Norris, explains. “The kids map development was sparked by our desire to provide rich and entertaining ‘geotainment’ content to children and to show how our platform can deliver both standard and customised themed-map services, using a similar content update process to that used to deliver movies, TV programming and music to IFE systems.”

With the peak holiday travel season upon us, families are taking to the skies in record numbers and a number of airlines are introducing kid-friendly offerings accordingly.

Airlines for America’s recent holiday travel forecast found that a record 31.6 million passengers were expected to fly on US airlines alone over the Thanksgiving holiday. And it’s a pretty safe bet that a good percentage of those travelers were families with kids.

According to research, onboard inflight duty-free sales have fallen by 11%. Inflight maps are popular with passengers and can provide an original and engaging platform that can influence travelers’ destination spending.

FlightPath3D leverages ancillary revenue by providing passengers with an immersive onboard 3D map experience with the functionality to let airlines sell and advertise products.