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AirTran, Delta add in-flight WiFi service

    by Tom BELDEN
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It's everwhere! AirTran is the latest airline to offer in-flight WiFi or wireless Internet service, saying that it will be installed on all of its 136 jets by this summer. The service is priced similarly to what other airlines have announced, $9.95 to use a laptop on shorter flights, and $12.95 on longer ones. AirTran debuted the service on a media-only flight out of Baltmore/Washington airport yesterday, which perhaps is why the best story I found ran in the Baltimore Sun.  

Coincidentally (or maybe it wasn't), Delta -- AirTran's arch-rival in Atlanta -- said that by September, it would have Internet access available on almost half of its fleet of 300 domestic jets. Other carriers, including American, Southwest United, US Airways and Virgin America, all have begun testing similar services, or say they plan to.

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