Airline tests onboard wireless Internet service.

AuthorPounds, Nancy
PositionCOMMUNICATIONS

Alaska Airlines will begin testing an inflight wireless Internet service in spring 2008. The Seattle-based airline would employ Row 44's satellite-based broadband service. Successful tests would lead Alaska Airlines to equip its 114-aircraft fleet with necessary equipment. Passengers with Wi-Fi enabled devices--such as computers, personal digital assistants and portable gaming systems--would...

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