Do you fly too much? Is it work-related or do you do it for fun? Well if you feel the need to surf the Internet while flying to your next destination you should check Aircell’s offers available for selected Virgin America, AirTran, Delta and America Airlines flights.

Aircell has announced two new Gogo plans for its customers: the Flight Pass for short trips and the 24-Hour Pass for those of you that fly across the ocean and back a lot.

The Flight Pass will cost you $5.95 for 90 minutes of in-flight WiFi connectivity while the 24-Hour Pass will cost $12.95. If you happen to fly almost daily then there’s a 30-day unlimited pass available for $49.95. I guess that at least some flight attendants will consider buying some cheap netbooks and getting this later plan for those interminable flights. After all why not surf the web while everyone else is sleeping?

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All those frequent fliers out there should be happy to know that Virgin America is the first airline to offer flleetwide WiFi. The GoGo In-flight Internet service will be available in Virgin’s 100 daily flights, just as we heard last year. You will be able to keep working while flying to your next destination. Or simply connect with friends or catch up with your favorite online content while you wait for your meal.

Virgin will show you tomorrow, May 21, that it means business, in an all time first air-to-ground Skype video call with Oprah Winfrey during The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Here’s what you’ll have to pay for the GoGo service:

• $12.95 for daytime flights of over three hours,
• $9.95 for daytime flights of less than three hours,
• $5.95 on red-eye flights and
• $7.95 for handheld devices.

So who’s the next airline to follow Virgin America’s initiative?

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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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