Congress has officially put the kibosh on any plans to introduce cellphone voice calls to in-flight passengers looking to annoy fellow travelers with their obnoxious phone calls. That’s great news and all, but banning voice calls in airborne airplanes doesn’t do anything for busybody passengers with a constant need for data access. Today, frequent fliers with [...]

We'd love to on one of the two flights that American Airlines is using to test their Aircell-equipped airliners' in-flight broadband data service. Following on American Airlines' announcement that they'll be retrofitting 15 of their Boeing 757 jets with Aircell hardware capable of providing 2Mbps data service, the US air carrier is set to test [...]