Deutsche Lufthansa, the flag-carrier airline of Germany, has announced that it will re-launch improved mobile phone and internet services (GSM/GPRS) initially on its long-haul flights between North America and Europe by the middle of 2010. For this, Lufthansa has teamed up with Panasonic, the Japanese electronics giant.

The United States-based US Airways has become the latest airline to offer passengers Aircell’s GoGo in-flight internet facility.

  Virgin America, the low-cost airline based in California, the United States, announced that, as of May 21, 2009, it became the first and the only airline to offer in-flight internet service on every flight.

  American Airlines expanding in-flight internet service to 300 more planes.

American Airlines plans to provide Wi-Fi internet services to its domestic flights.

Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle, Washington, the United States, has launched in-flight wireless internet service on a trial basis for passengers using Wi-Fi-enabled notebooks, smartphones and other personal electronics devices having wireless internet access.

British Airways, the national airline and the flag carrier of the United Kingdom, is offering its passengers use of mobile phones, BlackBerries and data-enabled laptops on limited routes from September 2009.

United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation, based in the United States, is to offer in-flight internet service in its planes later in 2009.