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First! All Virgin America Planes Are Now Equipped With In-Flight WiFi

May 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM | by | Comments (7)

Perhaps all it took was a competitive nudge from Air Tran last week to push Virgin America to outfit their entire fleet with in-flight WiFi today, courtesy of Gogo In-flight Internet. And ahead of schedule too! The news straight from the press release:

As of today, guests on any of Virgin America’s 100 daily flights have the option to surf the Web, check e-mail, or log on to their corporate VPN – all from the comfort of their seats at 37,000 feet. Virgin America marks this in-flight WiFi milestone with another first for an airline: an air-to-ground Skype video call with Oprah Winfrey which will air this Thursday, May 21 on The Oprah Winfrey Show (check local listings).

This is especially great news for Jaunted because we just happen to be boarding a Virgin America flight to JFK later this afternoon. We'll be tweeting about it of course, so be sure to follow us. You never know what might happen when absinthe and WiFi collide!

Gogo In-flight Internet begins at $9.95 for flights shorter than three hours and $12.95 for longer flights. Connect via your mobile phone for $7.95 for the length of the flight.

Related Stories:
· AirTran Blows the Field Wide Open With Fleetwide In Flight WiFi [Jaunted]
· Virgin America Promises Fleetwide WiFi By June [Jaunted]
· Virgin America [Official Site]

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Congrats

To VA. It was heated competition in the US to see who would get to the finish line first. Smaller fleet helped for sure, but this is huge.
markj on May 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM #Permalink

holla

now we will be working all the time, everywhere! except on the subway.
Jenna on May 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM #Permalink

How strong would the signal be?

Is that guy with the glasses holding up his white laptop because that is the only way he can get a good signal? :p
mv1009 on May 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM #Permalink

re: how strong

HA! It totally looks like that, doesn't it? I see some PCs in there; I thought VA was monitoring that since most of the pics I've seen of other WiFi flights feature Macs.
JetSetCD on May 20, 2009 at 12:12 PM #Permalink

VA is B.A.

VA is really making moves as the go to airline for that "cool" factor. Branson is also now holding contests for internet users to be featured on his in-flight TV show, Pitch TV. Is this all cooler than JetBlue and their in-flight seat-to-seat instant messenger? Idunno...
TeamMarcoPolo on May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM #Permalink

VA Rocks!

Virgin America is the best airline! Woo Hoo!!
Phamer55 on May 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM #Permalink

Relaxed traveling?

where is the time gone, when we were relaxing on a flight? Back then I was enjoing the "silence" but now? No excuse!
dagobert on May 23, 2009 at 6:34 AM #Permalink

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