In flight browsing available from American Airlines (link).
Now this is progress! Before today you could catch the internet practically everywhere where you could get a public satellite signal except while you were flying. You will no longer be cutoff from the world even when you are aboard an airplane!
$12.95 would get you in-flight email checking. Lets see what else you get -
1. loose the habit of catching up on your sleep on business flight since your boss will be emailing you to respond asap
2. use VOIP to make phone calls, and see staring eyes of co-passengers for you to shut-up
3. lookup wikipedia for cool details of the airplane you just boarded
4. email you pickup that you have been taxing since the last 2 hours as the airport is ever so busy
5. your wife will not know you runaway from home since you will always be online on IM and replying to her emails
Seems that this facility will soon become a necessary evil in the next few months...
As for me...I'm not going to pay $12.95 on 15 hour flight to India simply because my laptop battery will only last 2 hours :-)
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