http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151307/air_canada_clears_wifi_for_takeoff.html
Where isn’t there Wi-Fi theses days, whole cities have been immersed in a Wi-Fi bubble, and restaurant from Starbucks to McDonalds now offer Wi-Fi in some fashion, the next frontier is the air. When most people are on planes they accept the fact that they are out of communication for the flight, with the lecture of the NO cell phones also being preached to the passengers but now Air Canada is joining other airlines in offering Wi-Fi on board some of their aircraft, but for a fee and only on a few US-bound flights. The fees are understandable with the airline industry theses days where EVERYTHING has some kind of fee attached to it. Also it is only offered on US-bound flights because as per usually there isn’t the infrastructure for this service in Canada. Yes, Canada is mostly vast wilderness but the continental US airspace is all covered by 92 towers, so its possible to put the system into Canada. A problem that is common to most projects in Canada is halting the progress of Wi-Fi friendly Canadian airspace, the government, there is no license issued by the government, therefore no Wi-Fi.