Kuwait Airways has chosen Thales’s Avant in-flight entertainment system for five recently ordered Airbus A330-200s. The Android-based Avant system delivers a wide variety of on-board entertainment and applications such as the Thales 3-D Maps. Kuwait has chosen the 15.4-inch video monitor and Touch PMU handsets for premium class, while economy class passengers get 10.6-inch video monitors.

Nineteen airlines have now ordered the Avant system, accounting for more than 500 airplanes. More than 130 airplanes now fly with the system. Thales offers the system on all new-generation Boeing and Airbus platforms.