American Airlines to expand Internet service; sorry no porn

Finally, flight travel will be civilized.
American Airlines is going to install Gogo Inflight Internet on more than 300 of its domestic aircraft during the next two years, according to a boring company press release.
Forth Worth-based American Airlines, which has Market West offices, claims to be the first U.S. airline to launch the service, which they did last August on 15 Boeing 767-200 aircraft. It (lamely) primarily served nonstop flights between New York JFK and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami.
Requests for the airline to apologize for not focusing their efforts on the Philadelphia International Airport were rebuffed by a marketing intern.
American is going to install the company’s Aircell system on its domestic MD-80 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft fleets, beginning with 150 MD-80 aircraft this year, according to the press release which could be making up all those numbers because I sure don’t know what they mean.
“Our trial over the past six months offered customers the choice to remain connected to work, home or elsewhere when flying on American Airlines,” that intern probably wrote and then attributed to Dan Garton, American’s executive vice president of marketing in a press release. “And it also gave us the ability to study customers’ willingness to take advantage of high-speed, onboard connectivity and to gauge how the service performed technically in a variety of settings over an extended period of time. We are pleased that the results were positive and that we have decided to move forward.”
Some dirty details from the AP:

Prices will range from $5.95 for some redeye flights to $7.95 for using a handheld device, $9.95 for using a laptop computer on a flight up to three hours, and $12.95 for using a laptop on a longer flight. Aircell plans to add other prices for day passes and perhaps monthly subscription rates for frequent fliers.
Travelers can sign up on the ground and connect once the plane reaches 10,000 feet in altitude. They’ll use their browser to connect to Aircell’s Gogo portal site.
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Backelin said the Internet access will be filtered to block pornographic sites, the airline at first said it wouldn’t do that, but relented after hearing complaints from customers and flight attendants. And American won’t allow voice-over-Internet phone service, to keep chattering to a minimum [Source, emphasis ours]

In other American Airlines news, you can use bonus miles to go to the United Kingdom, or something like that.