The Scoop On WiFi In The Sky; Now With Canada
Our neighbors across the border are on their way to enjoying sweet, sweet in-flight WiFi. SkySurf Canada has been awarded a license to provide Internet access up there, as the Gogo of the north, if you will. Aircell is already looking to become friendly with them, but for now it appears as though things will be slow to start, although Air Canada does plan to offer WiFi connectivity later this year on flights from Toronto to Los Angeles.
Back at home, Delta is plugging along in equipping their planes with in-flight WiFi. They’ve made some good progress in recent weeks and have almost completed WiFi installation on 60% of their pre-merger domestic fleet. Installation on the airline’s first wide-body jet is set to take place on July 9, and the Boeing 767-300 will be testing things out on July 13. You’ll be happy to know they are hard at work on Northwest’s pre-merger fleet as final designs will be determined this month.
We recently learned that AirTran’s frequent flier comic, Mark Malkoff, finished his 30-day journey aboard their planes. The airline also confirmed that all their 737s now have WiFi and that “dozens” of 717s are also equipped. All Airtran planes will have WiFi by “mid-July.” They’ve got to be pretty close by this point, so we’ll believe their vague deadline.
We’ll keep our eyes on the WiFi skies just for you. For now, Virgin America is still the reigning champion of travel technology. However, for what it’s worth, they do have a lot fewer planes than some of the big boys.
Related Stories:
·SkySurf Wins License, Wants Inflight Internet to Take Off in Canadian Skies [MSN.ca]
·The Latest Wings With Wi-Fi (Part XIII) [Delta Blog]
·Mark Malkoff Completes 30-Day Landmark Journey of Living Onboard AirTran Airways' Aircraft [AirTran]
·Airline News coverage [Jaunted]
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