I have been a member of the American Airlines Admirals Club for a number of years. Clubs are available at a number of major city airports and provide an oasis of quiet and comfort while I travel. They are also great places to get some work done while I wait for my next flight.
The Admirals [...]
American Airlines has announced the launch of a new mobile broadband service, Gogo,™ provided by Aircell. Customers traveling on American’s Boeing 767-200 aircraft can access complete coast-to-coast coverage on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami.
Aircell’s Gogo service will be available to customers as [...]
Israeli company Aerophone Ltd. has developed a communication system that enables telephone calls to be made from airplanes—independent of GSM/CDMA ground stations. The system supports all wavebands and requires neither prior written registration of the passengers nor a particular billing system. Calls cost $1.60 per minute and are invoiced via the normal mobile telephone bill.
The [...]