Cathay Pacific offers in-flight e-mail on its aircraft

Internet Business News, March 12, 2003

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Flight operator Cathay Pacific Airways can now offer its passengers an in-flight e-mail service following agreements made with communications company PCCW NETVIGATOR and Tenzing Communications, an airline messaging systems provider.

The e-mail service will enable passengers on 42 of Cathay Pacific's aircraft to send and receive e-mails via their laptop computers, providing that they first register on the http://www.inflight.netvigator.com web site or have an e-mail address that ends in '@netvigator.com'.

Initially, the service will be free to use in the trial period. Subsequent pricing will be set at USD9.95 per flight and USD0.60 per kilobyte of data sent.

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