(August 31, 2005) – Eos Airlines, the first all-premium service airline between New York’s JFK International Airport and London’s Stansted International Airport, will launch this Fall with a premium hospitality package featuring IMS Inflight’s Portable Entertainment Appliance (“Pea”) personal entertainment system, according to IMS CEO Alan Pellegrini.

Eos will provide the handheld entertainment units at each of its forty-eight uniquely configured seats containing the most content ever offered on a portable, says Tony Telloni, a spokesperson for the airline.

Eos will fly a Boeing 757 equipped with 48 seats in a staggered configuration, providing each passenger with 21 square feet of room.

“Eos’ approach to IFE is like its approach to transport,” observes Pellegrini. “They want a superior service. They are matching their unprecedented 21 feet of personal space per guest with an unprecedented 15 or 20 movies, several hours of television, and unique thematic elements in their content linking London’s West End and Broadway.

“In fact, Eos has so much content that we increased the hard disc size of the Pea to 80 GB,” says Pellegrini.

“Eos wanted their content to reflect the culture, tastes, and style of the two cities they serve,” says Joseph Renton, IMS chairman. “So this gave us the chance to demonstrate our full service capabilities in content acquisition and content infrastructure design.”

“In addition to five new blockbuster movies—‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, ‘The Longest Yard’, ‘A Lot Like Love’, ‘The Interpreter’ and ‘Monster-In-Law’—the Eos content set includes ‘A Tribeca Tribute’ to Tribeca filmmakers like the Weinsteins and Woody Allen, and ‘A Notting Hill Tribute’ to writer-director Richard Curtis, whose Notting Hill flat with the famous blue door was featured in his movie of the same name,” observes content management consultant, Michael Childers who directed IMS’ content services team in developing the content set.

Eos passengers can watch the original “Four Weddings and a Funeral” with its sequel “Notting Hill”, he says.

“In addition, Eos’ content set features a ‘Tribute to Anne Bancroft’ who died in June,” Childers explains. “Ms Bancroft, whom I knew personally while working with her husband, Mel Brooks, gave an enduring performance opposite Anthony Hopkins in ’84 Charing Cross Road’, the true story of a 22-years-long and loving correspondence between a New York-based script reader (Bancroft) and a London-based antiquarian bookseller, and her long-awaited journey from New York to London. The play ran on Broadway for some time and throughout England last year, and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. It was made into a movie in 1987 by Mel Brooks.

“The Anne Bancroft Tribute also features her signature performance in ‘The Graduate’, and includes the original 1968 Mel Brooks motion picture ‘The Producers’, that Brooks adapted into Broadway’s most-honored musical comedy at Ms Bancroft’s suggestion,” says Childers.

Emphasizing the British side, Eos Pea content includes a “Tribute to Ismail Merchant” whose films with director James Ivory frequently examined British manners and culture, as in “Remains of the Day”, a look at British society in a pre-WWII world. Merchant died in May.

Under the heading of “Sherlock, Shamuses & Sleuths”, Eos will juxtapose several television episodes of Agatha Christie characters and British detectives, like Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, and the Belgian Poirot against the “Fallen Angels” pulp fiction American gumshoes of writers Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet.

Eos also offers a selection called “NYTV”, a retrospective of New York-based television such as “The Honeymooners”, “Taxi”, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, and “CSI: New York”.

“We acquired content from every major studio and several independents to build Eos’ content set,” said Renton. ”We chased rights to some of these movies for weeks. It was challenging, but rather enjoyable, and gives us a chance to demonstrate our content expertise.”

Eos’ content set includes content from Paramount, NBC Universal, Buena Vista, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Terry Steiner International, MGM, Granada International, and several others.

Eos’ seats feature a shell on the seatback for added privacy. “We’ve designed every aspect of the Eos experience with the business traveler in mind,” stated David Spurlock, founder and CEO of Eos.

About the company: IMS Inflight is a leader in portable and wireless solutions, content and data management solutions, and the development of content applications. For more information see: www.imsconsultants.com .