Virgin America

Traveling this holiday season via AirTran, Delta or Virgin America? Bring your laptop or Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device and stay connected while you're 30,000 feet in the air! Google Chrome has teamed up with these participating airlines to offer Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011. This promotion will bring free Internet service to more than 700 planes and approximately 15 million expected passengers this holiday season.

"We are constantly working to help provide a better web experience to users around the world," said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management at Google. "Whether it be building a better browser with Chrome or bringing free Wi-Fi to air travelers this holiday season, we are constantly innovating to ensure users’ access to the web is fast, simple and seamless."

To read more about the promotion, visit: www.freeholidaywifi.com

Virgin America announced today that they are the first and only (as of now) airline to offer Gogo In-flight Internet service on every flight. You can surf the web, check email, log onto your corporate VPN – all while flying at 37,000 feet. Basically, what this does is no longer give you an excuse as to why that email didn't get answered. But, will I use this service when I fly Virgin America? You bet!

The Gogo service is available for $12.95 for daytime flights of over three hours, $9.95 for daytime flights of less than three hours, $5.95 on red-eye flights and $7.95 for handheld devices.

Another cool thing…Virgin America has another first for an airline: an air-to-ground Skype video call with Oprah Winfrey which will air tomorrow (Thursday, May 21) on The Oprah Winfrey Show (check local listings). The episode is entitled "Where the Skype Are You?" and Oprah will host a video chat from the First Class cabin of Virgin America Flight VX780 en route from Seattle to Los Angeles. For more on the segment, visit www.oprah.com.