China Eastern Airlines, Huawei Sign In-Flight Wi-Fi Ecosystem Deal

The notable move here is the vertical integration: Huawei is pushing HarmonyOS as the connective layer for a service experience, not just a device OS, and an airline is ceding that layer rather than building a neutral portal. That matters for other carriers weighing whether to standardize on one handset ecosystem or keep in-flight connectivity device-agnostic. Whether HarmonyOS-gated access becomes a template for airline-telco-handset tie-ups elsewhere, or stays a single-carrier arrangement, is the open question.