Air Canada Opts for Boeing Integrated EFBs on All New 777s and 787s

Air Canada plans to install Boeing class-3 EFBs (electronic flight bags) on all new B-777s and B-787s ordered by the airline, making it the first airline in North America to operate such a system that is fully integrated with the airplane's avionics.

The airline says it will have EFB systems installed, certified and delivered on all eighteen of the 777-300ERs, 777-200LRs and 777 freighters, as well as the fourteen 787s, it ordered last November.  (Boeing is making the EFB standard equipment on the 787.)  The airline should receive its first EFB-equipped 777 in 2007 and its first 787 in 2010.

Boeing considers its EFB a core technology of its "e-Enabled" vision of how aircraft in the future will be one component of an electronically connected aviation enterprise, along with airline ground and ATC systems, operating together in virtual real time.  Its EFB uses hardware developed by Astronautics Corp. of America (ACA), and software developed by Boeing, itself, and its Jeppesen subsidiary.  02-10-2006.

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