Like Air Canada and Cathay Pacific, Virgin has signed a contract with Tenzing Communications in Seattle to provide the system, which will connect travelers to the Web through seat-back television screens or passengers' laptops.
Passengers can get content from the server over a cabin local area network.
The server will cache popular sites and refresh periodically during the flight. By the end of the year the technology is to be installed in each of the airline's 32 aircraft. Computerworld Inc. All rights reserved.