Singapore Airlines to offer inflight Internet service

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2004

SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore Airlines (SIA) passengers will be able to surf the web or catch up with their emails when high-speed inflight Internet services come on board next year, the carrier said.

In a team-up with Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of the US aircraft maker Boeing, the broadband service will initially be available on selected SIA Singapore-London flights from the first quarter of 2005.

SIA is planning to expand the service to include 'live' global television news channels on board its flights in the middle of next year.

"We are all very excited and eagerly looking forward to the first quarter of next year when ... the first three of SIA's Boeing 747-400 aircraft will be equipped with wireless broadband capability," said Yap Kim Wah,...