Is teh WiFi service on Virgin America flights free?
Virgin Americans WiFi when you fly Virgin American, a California-based passenger airline, is tooting its horn for being the first air carrier to offer WiFi in the sky on all of its passenger flights. That’s right– WiFi service is available in-flight across the entire Virgin American fleet. Virgin American offers flights to Washington, DC in its list of 100 daily WiFi supported flights across the nation. “As a new airline, Virgin America is reinventing the typical domestic air travel experience with award-winning service and brand new, beautifully designed planes equipped with the latest technology and entertainment. With power outlets at every Virgin America seat, Gogo® has now turned our planes into WiFi hotspots and home offices in the air,” proclaimed Porter Gale, Vice President of Marketing for Virgin America. Any Virgin American passenger can stream music, check out you-tube videos, surf the net, check-email, and log into corporate VPN accounts. Passengers can enjoy the Gogo® ser
The service isn’t free (yet), but it’s less than most hotel rooms charge, and since they’re the first airline to have such complete coverage, I’ll give it to them, but I’m hoping for the price to go down to zero dollars some point soon. For laptop use, it’ll cost you $9.95 for flights less than three hours long, $12.95 for flights over three hours. Handheld devices, i.e. BlackBerry or iPhones, will cost you $7.95 regardless of flight time. Sources: http://www.blackbookmag.
Virgin America has successfully launched wifi in every seat in its fleet of airplanes. The service isn’t free (yet), but it’s less than most hotel rooms charge. For laptop use, it’ll cost you $9.95 for flights less than three hours long, $12.95 for flights over three hours. Handheld devices will cost you $7.95 regardless of flight time. For those hoping to get some shut-eye on your next red-eye, don’t worry—voice service is not supported on phones at this time. However, as long as laptops work, so does our friend Skype. And just to prove that skyping works from the ground to the sky, check out today’s Oprah show, wherein Oprah skypes the first-class cabin of flight VX780 en route from Seattle to Los Angeles. Apparently there’s a wine-tasting segment that Oprah leads from the ground while the passengers sniff, swirl, and sip aloft. There goes the excuse about not being able to send emails because you were stuck on a flight. Sigh. Sources:
