American Airlines testing in-flight WiFi today

Xeni's been keeping track of American Airlines' WiFi plans over at the Motherboing. The service goes live today, with tests of wireless broadband internet now available on domestic flights. Glenn Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News provided an exclusive analysis of this long-delayed, much-wanted service:

BoingBoing readers will likely be ecstatic to hear that Aircell and American are entirely clueful when it comes to filtering for content. American's Backlein said the airline will "not block or filter content, and we're going to rely on the good judgement of our passengers, and also our flight crew do have polciies and procedures on inappropriate behavior." The crew already have to deal with people bringing on magazines and DVDs, and this falls into the same category.

Bravo, AA! Read the full piece.