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.
Kingfisher Airlines is on Twitter. Kingfisher Airlines, promoted by Vijay Mallya's UB group, has launched its Twitter account on popular microblogging site Twitter. Customers of Kingfisher Airlines can access Kingfisher Airlines on Twitter by logging on to Twitter and becoming a follower of Flykingfisher.
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.
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.
Delta Air Lines, based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, has launched Wi-Fi in-flight internet service on 6 of its aircraft as a prelude to its plan to provide the wireless access service on all of its 330-jet domestic fleet by 2009.
American Airlines, the largest United States-based carrier, has decided to filter pornographic websites on in-flight internet service.
A new kind of problem seems to be gathering storm in the air: Flight attendants with American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, have asked the company to filter its in-flight wireless internet service to block access to pornography and other websites which the workers believe are “inappropriate.”
As a part of the efforts by airlines to attract customers in the time of exorbitant fuel prices and economic slowdown, Delta Air Lines, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, will start offering broadband internet service on its entire domestic mainline fleet from October 2008.