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Summer Is Only Days Away, Is AirTran's WiFi Ready?

About a month ago, AirTran totally threw down a serious challenge to all other domestic carriers when they announced that all their planes were getting equipped with WiFi by this summer. Virgin America finished off their in-flight WiFi project soon after and stole AirTran’s thunder, but the ATL-based airline is still working hard to reach their goal.

If you’re familiar with a calendar, you’d know that the first day of summer is this upcoming Sunday. We haven’t heard that much from AirTran, so let’s just hope they’re almost done and are just waiting to surprise us when they are finished. They didn’t specify when this summer, so we’ll cut them some slack.

There doesn’t be to be too much of a buzz surrounding their service online. You’ll find much more information and first-hand reviews from flyers on Delta and Virgin America. However, buried in a press release about that guy who’s living on one of their planes, as of June 15 all of the airline’s 737 planes, about 50 of them, have been equipped with WiFi. That is pretty good, but they have a lot more Boeing 717s that need the WiFi love too. We'll keep an eye on them for you, and let you know when they're totally tech-friendly.

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