Boeing has secured a second trial airline for its broadband Connexion in-flight internet and e-mail services, with British Airways signing for a three-month trial. The trial will start next February, with internet and e-mail services to be offered in the airline's first, business and enhanced-economy class cabins on a Boeing 747-400. The win is a welcome boost for Boeing which has only one other trial airline, Lufthansa, which will test the services on a 747-400 from January. Boeing lost its only firm airline customers, and three shareholders, when American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines pulled out of a partnership deal following the terrorist attacks in the USA. Rival Tenzing, meanwhile, has secured Japan's All Nippon Airways for a trial to start next month.
Source: Flight International
