Delta Airlines will offer wireless Internet access on its airplanes, the Wall Street Journal reports. It will cost about what hotels charge, $10 or so. The motivation is customer demand only secondarily; primarily Delta, which is pretty much broke like most airlines, hopes it will be a money-maker.

It will be interesting to see how this works out — will the cabin attendants help passengers get their software settings right? Will the bandwidth be good enough for streaming video?

I think it’s great, though I’m finding that the seat rows are packed so close together these days that it’s hard even to open a laptop. And no Skype, please. I don’t want to listen to my neighbor’s VoIP telephone calls while I am trapped in midair.

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