Air Canada Adds In-Flight Wi-Fi

AirCell has announced Air Canada will offer GoGo in-flight Wi-Fi on trans-border flights to the U.S. beginning in spring 2009.

Last month, both Delta and American Airlines announced they would be offering in-flight Wi-Fi services on domestic flights via AirCell’s GoGo mobile broadband service. This month, in-flight Wi-Fi hops to the Great White North, with Air Canada announcing a deal to offer GoGo in-flight Wi-Fi on Airbus A319 planes that fly cross-border routes to the United States. The service should come online in spring 2009.

“Adding Air Canada as Aircell’s newest airline partner and first international customer will mark yet another milestone for our company,” said Aircell CEO and president Jack Blumenstein, in a statement. “As we continue to grow our U.S. network and explore our international expansion plans, Air Canada will have the distinction of being the first.”

Aircell says it hopes to roll out a complete Canadian air-to-ground network so Air Canada can take the server fleet-wide for domestic routes as well as flights to and front the United States. Aircell has also made no secret that it hopes to gain approval to use the same air-to-ground frequencies it uses for its U.S. network in Mexico and the Caribbean, expanding in-flight Wi-Fi services still further.