This holiday season, there’s no longer the need to debate whether to pay $9.95 for Wi-Fi on your flight home; Google is stepping up to offer free inflight Wi-Fi from Gogo on Virgin America, AirTran and Delta on all domestic U.S. flights from November 20 through January 2, 2011.
The offer follows last year’s holiday gift to travelers from Google – free Wi-Fi at dozens of airports across the country. With more and more airlines starting to offer inflight Wi-Fi, it seems the timing was right to take the promotion to the skies.
This year’s program is sponsored specifically by the Google Chrome team. On the official Google blog, VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai explains the move, writing, “On the Chrome team, we’re big fans of innovations that make our lives on the web and in the browser better—and it all starts with more ubiquitous access to the Internet.”