For all the annoyance of being crammed into an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet with a bunch of strangers, air travel has offered one benefit: the ability to tell bosses and colleagues, “I’ll be on a flight, so you won’t be able to reach me.”
So much for that excuse.
Wireless Internet service is starting to spread among airlines in the United States ”” Delta and American have installed it on more than a dozen planes each, and several other carriers are planning to test it.
For the airlines, always desperate for new sources of revenue, offering the service ”” about $10 for three hours and more for longer flights ”” was an easy call. And many passengers will cheer the development as an end to Web withdrawal.
But this new frill is hardly as benign as a bag of pretzels….
Please note that the title above is the one given in the print edition (the web title is different). I caught this today on the front page of the New York Times while waiting at the dentist’s office. I have to admit that even the possibility of this being used by terrorists never even entered my mind–ugh. Read it all–KSH.