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Virgin Atlantic Airways claims to be offering the first in-flight text messaging service: If you define text messaging as “sending short emails to somebody at a dedicated service who answers your questions,” then, sure, they’re the first, and, I hope, the last. Instant messaging isn’t what they’re offering; Tenzing, by the way, was the first to offer it in 2003 and 2004, plus low-speed email via proxy. That service was discontinued, but will re-emerge from its descendent merged entity OnAir next year along with cell phone calling in flight.
You have to tell me why anyone would pay whatever ridiculous fee Richard Branson—now the world’s third greatest billionaire—will demand from passengers to ask, for instance, “the best way to chat up the cabin crew” according to a Virgin spokeswoman (and isn’t that a nice double entrendre on top of that nonsensical query) quoted in this Reuters story.
Posted by Glennf at August 9, 2006 3:56 PM
Categories: Air Travel
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