There’s nothing quite like being able to connect to the Internet while flying through the skies and look at inappropriate websites about, say, two women and, why not, one cup.
Which is why airlines are rushing to have Wi-Fi on planes later this year — excited? The two girls are.
Southwest Airlines announced on Wednesday that they were testing a satellite-based service developed by Row 44 — the airline hopes to test the service in four of its aircrafts this summer. American Airlines in the meantime have installed Aircell’s Internet broadband on one of its 15 Boeing 767-200 aircraft. The broadbang uses 92 cell towers that are scattered across the US to help provide you the slowest possible Wi-Fi to check your email compulsively.
The tech is probably going to be delivered for a charge, in fact, if the airlines take a page out of the cruise liner book, it’ll be completely, audaciously, ridiculously expensive.
Europe is joining the game in another way, where talking on cell phones won’t be allowed (as proposed in the States). Mobile OneAir’s system is being tested by Air France and cell phone calling should be approved in a few months on the Air France Airbus A-318 plane.
In short, in a few years, airplanes will become like the Internet Cafes of the future, except with a much higher chance of smashing into the ground and killing everyone on board.











