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Boing Boing is reporting that they will be offering inflight WiFi. I guess Richard Branson needed an easier way to watch YouTube videos of himself.

“1. Virgin America has made public that they are installing WiFi fleet-wide (unlike some other airlines – American & JetBlue who are only doing a few planes)

2. Virgin America has also made public that its’ product will be more than laptop session access; it will integrate with Red, it’s inflight entertainment system

3. Virgin America intends to offer products like air-to-ground IM (MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, google talk and Skype, plus SMS)

4. All Virgin America A320s and A319s already have wifi access points installed (2 per plane); the flight attendants currently use them for Red’s food ordering system.

5. Other US airlines (like JetBlue and American) may be first when it comes to touting a wireless product, but Virgin is taking its’ time to get the product offering right for its guests.”