LATAM passengers now able to send and receive free text messages via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage

 

Since yesterday, the airline customers are able to send and receive free text messages via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage during the flight.

Initially, the facility will be available on 56 aircraft of the Airbus A320 family that perform flights within Brazil and flights from the country to other destinations in South America.

LATAM intends to extend the service to other aircraft in its fleet and reinforces that the free package is worth for text messages only – that is, it does not support the transfer of photos, videos or other files.

Learn how to access the service:

• STEP 1 – the customer must put their mobile device in airplane mode;
• STEP 2 – connect it to the LATAM Play wi-fi network;
• STEP 3 – type latamplay.com in your browser and select the free text messaging package.

The free text messaging package is one of LATAM’s initiatives to expand connectivity and the offer of in-flight entertainment amid the resumption of air travel and with increasingly connected customers.

JAMES G. WAWERU

Senior aviation Editor,

James is a navigator/FOM2 currently blogging at airbizafrica. 

He is an aviation ethusiast and has an eye for details that 

often helps him spot the best stories of the day... 

ALERT Indian Civil Aviation is investigating two IndiGo planes involved in a breach of separation

 

Two IndiGo planes avert mid-air collision over Bengaluru airport.

Two IndiGo planes averted a mid-air collision over the Bengaluru airport just after their take-off on the morning of January 9, senior officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.

Officials of Directorate General of Civil Aviation said that two IndiGo planes (flight #6E455 from Bengaluru to Kolkata and flight #6E246 from Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar) were involved in ‘breach of separation’ at Bengaluru airport.

Breach of separation happens when two aircraft cross the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance in an airspace.

Both these aircraft departed from the Bengaluru airport within a span of approximately 5 minutes on the morning of January 9, the officials mentioned.

“Both aircraft after departure were on converging heading i.e. moving towards each other. Approach radar controller gave diverging heading and avoided mid-air collision,” one of the officials noted.

JAMES G. WAWERU

Senior aviation Editor,

James is a navigator/FOM2 currently blogging at airbizafrica. 

He is an aviation ethusiast and has an eye for details that 

often helps him spot the best stories of the day...