If you forget to give a goodbye call to your near and dear ones before boarding a flight, you don’t have to worry, because, now you can call them from the plane itself. Not every passenger but at least, travelers flying Virgin Atlantic between Delhi to London can do this.
The facility would be available on premier British carrier Virgin Atlantic’s brand new Airbus A-330 when it takes off on its inaugural flight from here on July 11. Virgin has introduced this and other facilities in a new product package on the busy Delhi-London sector.
The package includes a re-designed business class cabin, longer beds, seats with more recline, a sophisticated touch-screen entertainment system, mood-lighting and a big onboard bar.
The new A-330 aircraft would have the ‘AeroMobile’ system that would enable passengers across the cabin to make and receive calls and send texts from their mobiles at 35,000 ft.
Virgin is the first British airline to offer in-flight phone service. The service costs £1 (US$1.60) per minute for phone calls and £0.20 to send a text, and is available throughout the aircraft. Due to limited bandwidth, however, only six people at a time can use the service.