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 Club at the Nashville, Tenn. airport was closed soon after the September 11 terrorist attack. Fortunately, that club reopened late last year. At a small … [Read more...]
Broadband in the Sky
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 a fee-based service in all cabins. Aircell will charge $12.95 on flights … [Read more...]
Make Cell Calls on Airplanes
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 development has been made possible by the installation of … [Read more...]
Paperless Boarding Pass
Paperless boarding schemes aren't exactly revolutionary, but they're still far from common at US airports. Now, however, Continental Airlines has announced that it will be experimenting with a cell phone-based boarding pass setup at Houston's Intercontinental Airport. This will enable single passengers (as in one bar code per person, per device) to show security personnel a jumbled mixture of blocks alongside their ID in order to board the plane. … [Read more...]
