Airlines Scurry to 'Wire Up' Laurent Belsie

Passengers may soon find a communications center right at their seat It used to be that you got away from it all when you left the office. Then technology changed, and the home became an office. So you drove around to get away from it all, until the car phone and the portable computer. Then you hopped a plane. Oh sure, there were those airline phones. For what it cost to dine at a fancy French restaurant you could mumble hello to the kids from 30,000 feet. But even the family didn't expect that kind of treatment. And anyway, no one could reach you for a few blessed hours. But those days of flying freedom are numbered. Major airlines are scrambling to wire up the airplane seat. …

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Publication information: Article title: Airlines Scurry to 'Wire Up' Laurent Belsie. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: September 19, 1995. Page number: 11. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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