How it's made
No jargon. Software on the screens an airline already has — or the passenger's own phone — with everything happening on the plane, so it works even with no internet at cruise.
Skyloft doesn't ship a box. It runs on the seatback screen the airline already flies — or, on aircraft with no seatback screens, straight in the passenger's phone browser with nothing to install. Nothing is ripped out, and nothing new has to be certified to fly.
In plain terms: Think of it as a new app for a screen that's already there — not a new screen.
Every aircraft runs a small, self-contained computer on board — we call it the edge. The films, the games, the news, the syncing: it all lives and runs there, locally, on the plane. So the experience works perfectly even when the aircraft has no internet connection at 38,000 feet.
In plain terms: Like a tiny cinema-and-arcade in a box, bolted into the plane — it doesn't need to phone home to work.
Because every screen and phone on the plane talks to that same on-board server — not out to the internet — a chess move or a shared play/pause hops between seats in a blink. Watch-together stays in step; a game a few rows away feels live. The plane is doing the work, so there's no satellite round-trip to wait for.
In plain terms: Everyone's talking to the same computer in the same room, so there's nothing to wait for.
When the plane has connectivity, a passenger can pay by card right from their phone — the card details never touch the airline's systems. When the plane has no connection, cabin crew can simply add premium to a seat on the airline's own card terminal. Either way, the unlock lands on the seat for the rest of the flight.
In plain terms: Tap to pay if you're online; ask the crew if you're not. Same result.
Skyloft is guest-only. There are no accounts to create, no logins, and no personal data stored. All it needs to give you the screen is your seat number, and when the flight ends, the session ends with it.
In plain terms: No sign-up, no profile — your seat number is the only thing it ever needs to know.
The same idea, drawn out
Cloud curates. The plane runs. Your seat is your seat.
A small cloud on the ground prepares the content and handles billing, then syncs it down to the fleet — but it's never in the loop during the flight. Once the door closes, the plane runs the whole show on its own.
For airlines and IFE vendors
Honest framing: Skyloft is a software partner for the application layer. We don't replace your IFE vendor, we don't certify avionics, we don't sell boxes. We bring the engagement + ancillary-revenue surface your existing platform doesn't have.
Skyloft is designed to run as an app inside your existing IFE platform via a host adapter (planned per platform), with a BYOD path on the roadmap for aircraft without seatbacks. Nothing flies that wasn't already flying.
The onboard server is a software install — no new wiring, no panel changes. Embedded mode rides on the IFE vendor's hosted-app slot; BYOD mode needs only the cabin Wi-Fi you already have.
Catalogues, news, and audio are cached on the aircraft. Pairing is cabin-local. Skyloft works the same with no satellite link as with one — the cloud is for fleet config and per-flight billing, not for serving content.
Per-flight premium (1h / 3h / full-flight) paid in-browser from the phone — the card never touches your servers and there's no app-store cut — or granted by crew on the airline's own POS for a passenger without a phone. Premium follows the seat across a device swap and rides through taxi and deplaning. No accounts, no subscriptions: it dies with the flight.
In-seat games, a live flight tracker and destination guide, and a persistent audio mini-bar so passengers don't lose their place when they browse — engagement metrics most IFE platforms cannot produce.
Skyloft is the application layer. Your IFE vendor stays the IFE vendor. Your maintenance contract is unchanged. We integrate on top.
Skyloft is built for airlines and IFE vendors planning their next inflight platform. Tell us about your aircraft and we'll set up a demo.
