HONEYWELL AEROSPACE

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Products: Global Xpress Inflight System, Electric Green Taxi System. flights. But nearly 90 percent of them said the current Wi-Fi service is frustrating.

In its survey, Honeywell interviewed more than 2,000 Americans earlier this year who had used inflight Wi-Fi at least once in the past 12 months.

The system from Honeywell and Inmarsat is designed to provide four times as much bandwidth as the current systems at speeds of 49 megabits per second.

Gogo, which provides Wi-Fi systems on nearly 2,000 domestic aircraft, including part of US Airways’ fleet, said its air-toground system operated at 3.1 mbps when it was launched five years ago. It second generation system is now up to 9.8 mbps.

Gogo GTO, a new service expected to launch in the second half of 2014 on Virgin America, will operate at speeds of 49 mbps. It will combine use of a satellite and Gogo’s150 cell towers.

Gogo has its system installed on about 80 percent of the domestic airliners that are equipped with inflight Wi-Fi service. Only 6 percent of passengers use the system, Gogo spokesman Steve Nolan said.

“It’s predominantly used by business travelers,” he said.

Row 44, a subsidiary of Global Eagle Entertainment Inc., has about 500 aircraft worldwide using its system, including Southwest Airlines. Passengers pay $8 to use the Wi-Fi system on Southwest flights.

Jacobs of Honeywell said the demand for inflight connectivity is likely to continue growing as the number of mobile devices increases from about 7.3 billion globally to 10 billion by 2016.