Business Travel Tips

As in Asia and in Europe airlines are already allowing passengers to use cell service in flight (the first authorised mobile phone call was made last week from a Emirates flight), that does not happen in the U.S.

However many U.S. airlines are to offer Wi-Fi connection on planes. AirCell, company which won critical spectrum licenses in 2006, announced today that their national air-to-ground in-flight network, called gogo, was ready for action.

The company has signed American Airlines for a 15-plane cross-country trial and Virgin America for its entire fleet. Service will cost about $10 for hops of 3 hours or less and $13 for cross-country flights. Other carriers including Alaska, JetBlue, and Southwest will deploy or test other systems.
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