Virgin America becomes first to offer fleet-wide WiFi
Internet access and WiFi are becoming ubiquitous these days with coffee shops, libraries, bookstores and even McDonald’s offering some type of access to the net. We have been waiting for an airline to finally offer WiFi and it looks like Virgin America will be the first to offer it fleet-wide. If you subscribe to Virgin’s email notifications, you’ll notice that the airline company will be launching a beta of its Gogo® in-flight Internet service on November 22, coinciding with the first-ever live stream of YouTube. In addition to cash-less ordering of food and drinks, some of the largest behind-the-seat television screens, USB/Electrical/Ethernet ports at every seat and over 3000 MP3s at every seat, this new service is really going to help Virgin America take off. The WiFi will only be a beta at the end of this month but will be 100% live throughout its fleet in the Spring of 2009. Virgin America is now Serving San Francisco (hub), Los Angeles (secondary hub), Las Vegas, San Diego, Seattle, New York JFK, Washington DC Dulles and soon Chicago.
[Thanks, Roger A!]
Didn’t know Virgin offered so many services…might have to look up their prices and if they’re good make them my go-to airline lol
I love Virgin America. Great service.
Look forward to using the BlackBerry 8900 (with WiFi of course) if it ever comes out… Talking to you T-Mobile USA.
Virgin is actually my preferred airline. The ONLY one I fly to Los Angeles *unless business dictates otherwise*, to Seattle, and soon to Chicago.
They also have mood lighting, in airline chat for you to chat to friends or strangers sitting in other parts of the plane. Ive had a LOT of great experiences, so bringing wifi to this airline will only enhance that experience, but also, allow people to get work done on those long haul transcontinental flights.
Too bad you suckers picking up a Blackberry Storm won’t be able to use this. I’ll be surfing carefree with my iphone!!
VZW customers will all have bricks in their pockets on these flights!
Delta will be offering WiFi on all domestic flights in the coming months too.
It’s easy for them to offer fleet-wide service, because they’re still a start up airline with very few planes.
Southwest will begin offering WiFi within the next couple months as well.
Wow all these airlines moving to WiFi. How many hours do business people spend in the air? A Lot I bet. So what will all those VZW BB customers do with their bricks when they fly when they watch the smarter phones getting all that use? HAHA
Will need to fly with Virgin more often
Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com/
35 Mbps per plane
http://www.voyant.aero/
Got the access point when I flew, but just got an error page. Was sad.