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JetBlue Airways will begin offering on Dec. 11 limited in-flight broadband Wi-Fi service
Filed Under Technology, Time Management, Travel
If you are looking to catch up on emails during your next airline flight, you will be glad to know JetBlue Airways will begin offering on Dec. 11 limited in-flight broadband Wi-Fi service.
According to the USA Today story JetBlue to offer some in-flight Wi-Fi for e-mail, messaging, the service is currently limited… available only on one JetBlue Airbus A320 (more to come in the near future)… laptop users can only access Yahoo e-mail and Yahoo’s instant messaging application… however, BlackBerry users (models 8820 and 8320) can send and receive e-mail from any type of account.
So what about some of the other major airlines? According to the USA Today story, “American Airlines and Virgin America are working with Colorado-based AirCell to offer the service in 2008. Alaska Airlines has signed with a California technology firm, Row 44, to begin the service starting in 2008. Southwest has also said previously it hopes to launch the service next year.”
