American Airlines (AMR) today announced that it will compete with Delta in offering wireless internet for domestic flights. American is No. 2 in the world in passenger traffic, since Delta acquired Northwest Airlines last year. Dan Garton, American’s executive vice president said they will suit up 300 planes used primarily in the U.S. by the end of the year.
Currently Southwest Airlines (LUV) and JetBlue (JBLU) are experimenting with it on planes flying inside the USA. Average pricing goes as follows: Laptop users pay $12.95 on flights longer than three hours, and $9.95 on shorter ones. Travelers using handheld devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, will pay $7.95 no matter the length of the flight.
It will be interesting to see how flight attendants will be dealing with VoIP calls, since cellphone service is still not going to be allowed on any planes (and hopefully not anytime soon), but services like Skype, gChat and others will voice capabilities have not been officially banned….yet
Currently Southwest Airlines (LUV) and JetBlue (JBLU) are experimenting with it on planes flying inside the USA. Average pricing goes as follows: Laptop users pay $12.95 on flights longer than three hours, and $9.95 on shorter ones. Travelers using handheld devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, will pay $7.95 no matter the length of the flight.
It will be interesting to see how flight attendants will be dealing with VoIP calls, since cellphone service is still not going to be allowed on any planes (and hopefully not anytime soon), but services like Skype, gChat and others will voice capabilities have not been officially banned….yet
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