News Report #3

“United Airlines to Offer Aircell Gogo In flight Internet In 2009”
Raymond Padilla, The Feed
January 15, 2009
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/692463/United-Airlines-To-Offer-Aircell-Gogo-Inflight-Internet-In-2009.html

Starting in the second half of 2009 United Airlines will be the first to offer in flight wifi via Gogo in flight internet service. The wifi service will cost $12.95 for the entire flight. Aircell is already partnered with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Air Canada, and Virgin America to offer the same service on all of those airlines.

It is about time that the airlines decided to offer in flight internet. This has been a long time coming and students, avid travelers and business men and going to be so ecstatic to pay that $12.95 in order to use the internet during their long flights. This is just another way that technology is moving forward even in the way we travel. The airlines have been going through a lot with the bankruptcies, pay cuts, layoffs and sales. However, now they are getting back to improving what they can offer their passengers in order to make their flight more convenient and make it easier for people to multi-task during long flights. So this is the next step in airline convenience and technology. Within the coming years maybe we will be able to use our cell phones and any other electronic device without having to worry about messing up the radio signals or tying up the cell phone towers. So even though this is a great step forward in technology, developers should be looking toward the next steps in making more and more electronics an option on flights. I mean could we get a cell phone call, please?