There is no escaping Wi-Fi connectivity no matter where you are, even if you are many thousand feet above sea level, sitting in between a single mom with a crying child and an overweight passenger on the other side. In order to maintain your sanity, you decide to retrieve your favorite tunes from a cloud storage service, and what used to be impossible in the past is now achievable, as Virgin Australia has just announced airborne Wi-Fi connectivity thanks to a joint development project with Lufthansa Systems. Both companies have already signed a letter of intent, where they will work on deploying BoardConnect, covering devices as well as the back-end system. BoardConnect is said to launch sometime in the middle of next year onwards, giving users the option to watch movies, play video games, tune in to audio content as well as surf the Internet via Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks and tablets.
Virgin Australia has remained mum on its manufacturing partners for the devices though, and while a limited number of tablets will be made available for Business Class passengers, those in Economy class will have to fork out more dough to rent them.
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