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Alaska Airlines Offers Free In-Flight Mobile Messaging

Grant Martin

Photo Credit: A promotional image from Alaska Air of a passenger texting. The airline is offering free messaging via its Gogo in-flight Internet.  Alaska Air

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Young travelers may have a new reason to consider Alaska Airlines -- the carrier just opened up free mobile messaging on all of its WiFi-equipped flights.

Alaska Airlines is adding mobile messaging to its spectrum of in-flight amenities and is dishing it out free of charge. The technology will be provided by Gogo, which operates the onboard Wi-Fi across most of Alaska's fleet of 175 aircraft and will be free of charge. The messaging service, of course, will only be limited to technologies that can work over a Wi-Fi network such as i

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