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Southwest has made the decision to install what is, for now, a rather high-tech frill — on-board Wi-Fi. According to swabiz.com, the airlines business travel website, the system is being installed on some flights this year and by 2012, all of Southwest’s 540 aircraft will offer high-speed internet.
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As computers have become laptops, and laptops have become smartphones, so has the working world become increasingly a 24-7 phenomenon.
It’s not just that most of us check email nights, weekends and on vacation, it’s that now bosses and clients expect it too. As a successful travel agent — yes, there are some of us [...]
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One of Boeing’s biggest customers is irate with the manufacturer. Airlines are hitting an economic bottom, but may stay there for a while. Carriers struggle with the right price for Internet in the sky.
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Inside an understaffed air traffic control tower, the state of in-flight broadband connectivity, and the lowdown on those new whole-body scanners.
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It wasn’t so long ago that when you went on a business trip you could tell your boss that you will be unreachable for a few hours. Now that wireless Internet service is spreading among US airlines, you can’t use that excuse anymore.
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This week, American Airlines announced its decision to filter out inflight pornographic Internet content. But if you’re flying on American’s flight 1960, or others like it, the restriction could be meaningless.
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Jaunted has a brief item on the race between American Airlines and Virgin America to offer in-flight Wi-Fi service, reporting that both could be online by summer.
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If you want to read Vanity Fair online or check up on boingboing.net’s latest posts, you’ll have to do it somewhere other than Denver International Airport, which blocks some content on its free Wi-Fi network.
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