Southwest Airlines doing inflight Internet trials

From Gadling -

Southwest Airlines has announced their first inflight WiFi trial. The service is installed on one of their 540 planes, with an additional three planes to be equipped by March. Access is provided by Row 44 - who opted for a satellite-to-plane system, unlike the technology in use by Aircell who use a ground-to-plane system.

Southwest also partnered with Yahoo! to create a custom homepage for each flight. The page contains destination information, a live route map as well as a collection of Yahoo! games.

Southwest, the largest US carrier in terms of passengers, is the last of the major carriers to commit to providing inflight wireless Internet access.