In Flight Wi - Fi - I tried it...

On a recent flight from Texas I was offered free access to www.airborn.gogoinflight.com.

If you have taken any flights recently, you may have seen their marketing representatives in lime green shirts working the airline gates offering free access and handing out giveaways. By the way, the representative did a fantastic job of explaining it to me, and how I had a chance to be a "brand ambassador" by giving the service a try and providing feedback etc. Feeling good about my chance to be part of something, I decided to give it a try on my scheduled 3 hour return flight home to NY.

One of the pitfalls of major airport travel on flights longer than three hours is that"lack of connectivity" to your in box. Now, for a relatively small fee, you can be on line for most of your flight and continue working virtually. In only a few seconds, I was sending e-mails, researching my next business trip, and catching up on some business reading through the Internet. And when I landed, I felt very efficient!

I am not what one would call an "early adopter" of technology but this service is a definite winner...you heard it here first!