December 23rd, 2011

In-Flight Wi-Fi Company Gogo Files For $100 Million IPO

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In-Flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo has just filed for an IPO, and will raise as much as $100 million in a public offering.

Gogo, which has raised over $500 million in funding, provides in-flight connectivity to nine of the ten North American airlines that provide internet access, including Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Virgin America, Alaska Airlines, US Airways, Frontier Airlines and Air Tran Airways. The company also has trial agreement with United Airlines and Air Canada. → Read More

June 30th, 2011

Gilt Groupe And Gogo To Offer Exclusive In-Flight Deals To WiFi Users

Well this is interesting. Gilt Groupe is partnering with in-flight wifi provider Gogo to offer passengers exclusive in-air deals on the flash sales site. So when you log-on to Gogo WiFi on any Delta, United, Virgin America, Alaska Airlines and US Airways planes, you can find exclusive deals on Gilt.

You’ll also be able to access Gilt for free (as opposed to paying the $4.95 minimum price to access Gogo wifi). Gogo did a similar deal with Facebook earlier in the year, where passengers could log-on to Facebook for free (but had to pay for access to other sites.) → Read More

February 7th, 2011

Gogo Inflight Is Actually Making Money

According to a BusinessInsider interview, Gogo in-flight wireless is doing well and just raised another $35 million in capital to keep the lights on and the in-flight Wi-Fi flowing. Aircell, Gogo’s parent company, says that the service served 3 million sessions between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Google offered free Gogo on all flights during this period. → Read More

February 2nd, 2011

Free In-Flight Facebook Comes To More Airlines

The free in-flight Facebook access we mentioned yesterday is expanding to several other major airlines. Good news if you don’t mind a few Ford ads getting in the way of your pokes. Virgin America, United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, AirTran, US Airways and Alaska Airlines are all on the list now. No Southwest, which means I’ll be flying a lot more Southwest. I get on airplanes to get away from Facebook. → Read More

December 10th, 2010

Buy The Junk We Refuse To Cover: Shop Skymall.com For Free From The Sky

Gogo Inflight and SkyMall are teaming up to offer the junk that we refuse to cover or, if we do cover, we write about with tongue firmly in cheek. That’s right: next time you turn on your computer on AirTran Airways, Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, you can access Skymall.com for free. Plus! Get this! If you spend $125 or more on a wine bottle chiller or a garbage watch, you get a free flight pass on any Gogo pass!

I, for one, will pick up the 13 original rules of golf and a outdoor Pieta for my patio. → Read More

February 16th, 2010

T-Mobile gives an HTC HD2 reminder, now with more fun!

Last week, T-Mobile teased us all with a little jab on Twitter about the HTC HD2 that it will be shipping soon. It was exciting and, to be frank, it made me a little antsy. As promised, T-Mobile announced new features for the HD2 at Mobile World Congress today and I’ve gotta say, it isn’t all that thrilling. → Read More

December 16th, 2009

Gogo internet to be available on Continental Airlines flights soon

The airline WiFi roll-out continues! Next up is Continental installing Gogo service in 21 of its 757-300 planes by the second quarter of 2010. Prices will start at $4.95, but depending on the flight’s length, can cost a bit more. This is clearly the most exciting news of the day. → Read More

November 23rd, 2009

United Airlines & Gogo offering try-before-you-buy in-flight Wifi promo

Several airlines have been offering Wifi for a while now. United Airlines wants to ensure that people are actually trying it out and so through the end of the year, you can get one free session if you create a new account with Aircell’s Gogo Inflight. The offer is only good on United’s 757-200 flights between New York Kennedy and the airline’s Los Angeles and San Francisco hubs. → Read More

July 23rd, 2009

US Airways catches up to 2009, rolling out Gogo in 2010

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July 15th, 2009

Aircell now offers Gogo pricing for shorter flights

Any in-flight Wi-Fi fans in the audience? Listen up, kids. Aircell announced new pricing for their Gogo service today and it applies to those flying extremely short distances, like 1.5 hours. If you’re on a flight that’s less than 1.5 hours you’ll be forking over $6 and those of you looking for a 24-hour pass will have to shell over $13. That is all. → Read More

March 31st, 2009

American Airlines to expand fleet with Aircell's Gogo service

Aircell and American Airlines have just announced that the domestic carrier will continue to deploy Gogo throughout 300 planes in the next two years. Starting this year, AA will outfit 150 MD-80 aircrafts followed by Boeing 737-800s. Gogo is currently available on non-stop AA flights originating from JFK to SFO, LAX and MIA. Flights longer than three hours cost $13 while flights shorter than that cost $10 and there’s a mobile device plan for $8. That is all. → Read More

March 21st, 2009

Live from 35k feet! [Update 2]

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March 18th, 2009

Aircell now offering mobile phone pricing for Gogo service

Aircell has reduced the price of their in-flight Wi-Fi service Gogo to $7.95 for users who just want to connect their handheld devices. Let’s face it, when you’re stuck in coach on an American flight, you don’t want to pull out your laptop only to have it crushed by the passenger in front of you. Gogo is currently available on American Airlines, Delta and Virgin America for $12.95 on flights longer than three hours and $9.95 for flights less than three hours. → Read More

February 26th, 2009

Alaska Airlines starts testing satellite-based Wi-Fi services [Update]

Alaska Airlines has announced that they’ve started testing Row 44’s satellite-based Wi-Fi service on a handful of Boeing 737-700s. The first trial flight will take place between Seattle and San Jose (leaves Seattle at 2:20 PT today and returns on Flight 329 from San Jose back to Seattle) and the service will be free for 60 days. After today that aircraft will shift routes, which includes anything going up and down the West Coast and Alaska. No exact date has been attached to the trial (but I would assume it’s today or sometime this week) and pricing hasn’t been set, but I’d imagine it’s close to what VA or AA is charging for Aircell’s Gogo service. Now watch the boring video after the jump. → Read More

February 11th, 2009

Virgin America launches service to Boston [Update]

Virgin America, my favorite domestic airline, is launching service to and from Boston today with three daily routes from LA and two daily routes from San Francisco. This is important for those traveling between Boston and California because all flights to and from Boston are equipped with Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service.

Update: We’ve got a list of all Wi-Fi-enabled VA flights after the jump. → Read More

January 14th, 2009

United signs with Aircell for in-flight Wi-Fi

United has signed on with Aircell to bring the Internets to the skies making it harder for us to have some peace and quiet on those transcon flights. They now join Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta and Virgin America. → Read More

November 5th, 2008

Virgin America rolling out Gogo Wi-Fi service on November 22

Our buds over at Jaunted just gave us the heads up that Virgin America will begin rolling out Aircell‘s Gogo service, which we reviewed back in August, on November 22. The “beta” flight will take off from SFO, VA’s HQ, to JFK. Virgin plans to roll out the in-flight broadband service on one plane per week with a full rollout scheduled by March 2009. Oh, and they won’t be filtering the service either. The RED system will eventually be wired in as well, but we won’t see that happen until later on in 2009. → Read More

October 9th, 2008

American Airlines: no airporn for you!

Sorry, people. The dream is over. American Airlines has decided that it, along with Delta (and the flight attendants), does not want porn on its flights — despite receiving no complaints whatsoever. Say they: Based on the feedback of our customers and employees, American Airlines is working with Aircell(R) to implement technology to filter pornographic content over the Gogo(R) inflight Internet service. I guess you’ll have to “pack in” your own stuff and not rely on the bounty of the internet. You filthy animal. → Read More

September 9th, 2008

Air Canada to use Gogo Wi-Fi for international flights

Canadian travelers will soon be able to emulate their favorite CrunchGear blogger, Peter Ha, as they glom on to Aircell’s Gogo wireless internet service aboard their next international Air Canada flight. You’ll recall that Sweet Pete recently blogged from 37,000 feet using Gogo service aboard American Airlines. What fun we all had! You’ll have to wait until at least spring of 2009, as that’s when Air Canada hopes to start rolling out the service on its fleet of Airbus A319 airplanes that fly between Canada and the United States. → Read More

August 28th, 2008

VoIP calls on Aircell's Gogo? Big deal, seriously.

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