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Thomson Airways retains IFE Services

In-flight entertainment (IFE) company, IFE Services, has been retained by Thomson Airways as its content service provider.

Above: Thomson Airways' Dreamliner.

IFE Services has been Thomson Airways' IFE supplier for over five years and will now continue to provide the airline with a rich content mix of Blockbuster Hollywood movies, TV programmes, radio channels and music albums.

The content will be available for passengers to enjoy across the airline's fleet of B767 and B787 aircraft. IFE Services will also manage all of the airline's digital encoding and AVOD file management requirements. To promote the available IFE onboard to passengers, IFE Services will produce a printed entertainment guide.

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In June 2012, the company announced that it had designed the user interface for Thomson Airways' new Dreamliner entertainment system.

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Thomson Airways, the airline for Thomson and First Choice, is the UK's third largest airline. With a fleet of 61 aircraft consisting of the Boeing 737, 757, 767 and 787, it serves 22 UK airports taking over five and a half million customers away each year and operates to 88 destinations in 30 countries.
 

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