One of the main disadvantages of flying is being unable to use your mobile phone while in the air. For many people this is a serious problem, because being out of touch with texts and emails for several hours at a time can be unbearable.

Virgin Atlantic has the answer though, and will be upgrading systems on ten of their new Airbus A330-300s to allow passengers to use email and text messaging services during flight by 2011.

Virgin announced that for 2011 Virgin will offer the service for passengers using systems such as Blackberry, PDAs and other devices. This news on the back of the announcement that Virgin will be spending $2.1 billion on its ten new planes, Airbus A330-300 aircrafts.

The new planes will be full of technical wizardry, including USB ports and the functionality to use mobile devices, but not for making calls.

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