Tag: IN-FLIGHT

Southwest got official with its Wi-Fi plans late last month, but avid travelers who favor the only airline worth flying anymore (okay, Virgin America and JetBlue aren't bad either) were left wondering about most of the details. Today, the company has fired up a single Row 44-equipped flight, and it has announced plans to equip three more airplanes with in-flight WiFi by early next month. ...

Delta said it was coming before 2009, and it's looking like it's actually managed to pull it off. The struggling airline is indicating that most of its most commonly used shuttle craft between New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. are currently being upgraded to offer in-flight Wi-Fi -- and it'll even be free until the end of the year. The service, provided by Aircell, will be $9.95 on flights ...

In addition to monitoring belligerent passengers and suspicious activity, attendants on flights with Wi-Fi are now worried they'll have to keep an eye out for passengers watching porn. If they have their say, airlines will employ filters to make sure nobody can view it. Not even for "educational purposes" or other excuses. This all comes after American Airlines installed wireless Internet on 15 ...

At long last, "you are now free to surf the intarwebz while flying." Okay, so maybe it has been possible in the past, but American Airlines is taking a huge leap forward in the US market today by giving passengers aboard long-haul Boeing 767-200 flights the option to hop online during the trip. The GoGo service, which is being provided by Aircell, will charge customers $12.95 for access to the ...

We've all heard the myths and rumors surrounding midair cell phone use; about how accidentally leaving your phone on while on a flight could result in you and every other person aboard plunging to their doom. Whether or not those conceptions are well-founded, they've been used as excuses to ban midair cell phone calls on pretty much every airline in the world -- until now. At last, certain ...

This whole in-flight Wi-Fi thing is really taking off (induce pun groans now). Alaska Air is the latest company to announce it will be testing wireless broadband access on its jets. Starting in the Spring of '08. Alaska Air will outfit one of its Boeing 737's with a system from Row 44, a company that specializes in Internet service for the commercial aviation industry. If it all goes well, the ...

American Airlines and Lufthansa are the latest to jump on the in-flight Internet bandwagon. American Airlines has signed up with Aircell to start offering broadband access at 30,000 feet sometime next year. It will initially begin rolling out the service on trans-Atlantic flights on its fleet of 767s. Annoyingly, prices for the service were not announced yet, which is what we laptop-addicted ...

While the FCC and FAA hold in-flight calling and texting at bay here in the US, the European Aviation Safety Agency is on the march to rid the world of this one last bastion of cell-phone-free space, at least in the E.U.. Ryanair, Qantas, and Air France have been testing in-flight mobile use for the past several months. The results of the trial have been impressive enough for the EASA agency to ...