Stuck At The Airport » Air One http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport Expert advice about airports and airport amenities Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:23:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Call me; I’ll be on the plane http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/02/call-me-ill-be-on-the-plane/ http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/02/call-me-ill-be-on-the-plane/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:47:14 +0000 Harriet Baskas http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/2008/07/02/call-me-ill-be-on-the-plane/ Musings of the Global Traveller

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]]> For a few months now, Air France has been testing in-flight data and cell-phone service on one of its planes. (I flew on one of the cell-phones-allowed flights and wrote about it in my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com.)

Now comes word that passengers on at least one TAP Portugal plane can send and receive e-mail and make flying phone calls as well. The airline has equipped a single Airbus A319 aircraft with the Mobile OnAir service and will test that service for six months.

On the test plane – and perhaps eventually on all TAP Portugal flights across Europe – passengers can use BlackBerry-type devices and mobile phones to send and receive emails and text messages, and to make and receive voice calls.

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