Providing product listings on an aircraft for products available at a destination

A method, comprising:

• obtaining destination information from an aircraft data bus, wherein the destination information is from a plurality of aircraft information systems located on an aircraft;
• sending the destination information to at least one vendor application programming interface (API) to obtain product details for at least one product that is available for purchase through an inflight entertainment system and is available to be delivered at a flight destination, wherein the vendor API is configured to communicate, via a communications network, with a vendor server associated with a product vendor, the vendor server located off the aircraft;
• obtaining, using the vendor API, the product details from a cache of product listings stored on the aircraft when the communications network used to communicate with the vendor server is unavailable, the cache of product listings including metadata for the product listings used to identify an association between the destination information and the product listings included in the cache of product listings;
• receiving the product details to display in the inflight entertainment system;
• and
• sending the product details to a client device to be displayed in a graphical user interface of the inflight entertainment system, wherein the graphical user interface of the inflight entertainment system allows a passenger on the aircraft to view the product details with a plurality of product details for a plurality of products and purchase the at least one product through the inflight entertainment system.

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium including instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to:

• obtain destination information from an aircraft data bus, wherein the destination information is from a plurality of aircraft information systems located on an aircraft;
• send the destination information to at least one vendor application programming interface (API) to obtain product details for at least one product that is available for purchase through an inflight entertainment system and is available to be delivered at a flight destination, wherein the vendor API is configured to communicate, via a communications network, with a vendor server associated with a product vendor, the vendor server located off the aircraft;
• obtain, using the vendor API, the product details from a cache of product listings stored on the aircraft when the communications network used to communicate with the vendor server is unavailable, wherein the cache of product listings includes metadata used to identify an association between the destination information and the product details included in the cache of product listings;
• receive the product details to display in the inflight entertainment system;
• and
• send the product details to a client device to be displayed in a graphical user interface of the inflight entertainment system, wherein the graphical user interface of the inflight entertainment system allows a passenger on the aircraft to view the product details with a plurality of product details for a plurality of products and purchase the at least one product through the inflight entertainment system.