Virgin America today announced that it is partnering with AirCell in an effort aimed at offering air-to-ground broadband internet service on Virgin America flights sometime in 2008. Guests onboard America’s newest airline will be able to access the internet either through their wifi-enabled personal devices or through the Red Inflight Entertainment system at every seat.
Customized for Virgin America, the system is anticipated to allow guests to connect to the internet with the AirCell Broadband Service, using either their Red seatback video screens or their own wifi enabled portable gaming devices, laptops, PDAs or Smartphones. As such, in addition to the many entertainment choices currently offered by Red guests will be able to check and send web-email from their seatbacks through Red’s TALK – the airline’s onboard chat.
Once operational, the Virgin America-AirCell system will allow Virgin America’s guests to receive this airborne functionality on every flight. Virgin America is the first airline to announce and commit to a planned full-fleet deployment of broadband connectivity. It is anticipated that the AirCell on Red capability will be made available on Virgin America aircraft sometime in 2008.
Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
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