Did you get used to going online while flying or not really? More and more airline companies are trying to offer the service to customer but none of them has gone full fleet WiFi yet.

Virgin America is the first one to have all its planes upgraded to be WiFi ready. It’s Gogo in-flight Internet service will go beta on November 22nd. Yes, it’s the same day YouTube will offer live streaming.

Besides Internet browsing you will get cash-less ordering of food and beverages, big behind-the-seat TV screens, USB/Ethernet and power ports and over 3000 MP3 at every seat. What do you think? Will you fly Virgin? Will it cost a lot more to fly Virgin than usual? The company will finish all beta tests before Spring 2009 so you have plenty of time to test it and report on its performance.

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Various airlines are making efforts to ensure customer satisfaction. One of them is South African Airways which will request permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of South Africa to allow mobile phones during flights. Besides that they will also introduce WiFi connections by installing servers on their aircrafts. (more…)

If you are flying in the USA make sure you choose Delta Airlines for domestic flights. Delta will go full WiFi on all domestic flights. That means that starting from next month, no matter what Delta flight you’d pick, you will be able to enjoy wireless broadband Internet. And it will only cost $9.95 for three hours flights and $12.95 for longer flights. We’ve already seen that kind of pricing on American Airlines WiFi test flight. (more…)

While I’m was checking out my battery time and 3G connection, I just found out that American Airlines flights from New York and Los Angeles will have a small surprise for their passengers. American Airlinehttp://www.mobilewhack.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?posted=6379
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Here’s another Airline company that is adapting to our technology world. We’ve seen recently how United Airlines have started to offer iPod and iPhone support for their top transatlantic customers. Delta is taking one more step into the future as they are going to allow domestic air travelers departing from New York La Guardia airport to board using their virtual boarding passes stored in their smartphones instead of regular paper boarding passes.

Isn’t that cool? All you need is a digital boarding pass downloaded from Delta and stored in your phone’s memory, an ID to match the person you took the cell phone from and you’re going to be scanned in. All aboard! Oh my, but is it safe? Seriously speaking, with all the safety that’s in place when it comes to flying in the USA, I am sure safety measures will be in place to prevent any hacking or misuse of this new system. After all Continental Airlines and Northwest have started using similar procedures earlier this year.

And this system might just save some trees as we will not be printing that many paper boarding passes. Although pollution from manufacturing those smartphones needed would eventually kill some of the trees we saved before. Well eventually this way of boarding planes will be available in more and more airports around the world in the future.

Frequent fliers with United Airlines can plug their iPods or iPhones to a special 30-pin cable which will deliver 15.4 video to a screen situated in the seat in front of you. You need three things: a first class or business ticket, an iPhone or iPod and a transatlantic destination.
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Business Class on a redesigned Airbus A340-500 from New York to Singapore starting yesterday and from Los Angeles to Singapore in the future will have iPod and iPhone support for passengers.

What’s the catch? Well you need to buy an iPod and an iPhone first, pack it with you when flying to and from Singapore and then get a Business Class ticket. Lots of money right? Well yes but if you are a frequent flyer and you have to be in Singapore for a certain period of time, you might try one of those tickets. Maybe your company will cover the costs!
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