The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration also conducted a review of the system s certification and has found no safety hazards. Nevertheless, Swissair deactivated the entertainment systems on all aircraft and has not yet moved to resume the program. Understandably, no other airlines have yet accepted the system and the program is in limbo, at least as far as aircraft are concerned. FLYT s previous management actually gave up on the program and was ready to pursue much more mundane businesses with what money they had left. But with the company s fortunes and stock price at the bottom last year, new management took over with a better idea.
Former management s rather inexplicable new investment in the dry cleaning business was sold.
One of the first moves was to strengthen the Entertainment Network which was done both internally and by merging the operation with The Network Connection. That public company has a similar technology that is in some ways superior. The company still has a contract with Swissair and is negotiating to resume it. There are also some small-scale beta tests going on with business aircraft. However, management decided that it needed a strong partner to get back into the in-flight business and is negotiating with a couple of potential partners.