I'm posting this from the Sky! I'm on an AA flight returning from Detroit offering it's new Gogo Inflight Internet. It's complimentary but would be offered for $9.95 per flight -- a little pricey for a short flight, but probably worthwhile for a coast to coast US flight. I don't know it's offered overseas. For a business traveler (when they return to the air) this could be money well spent.
It's impressive. The speed is pretty good -- it's fast enough to watch a Yahoo! or ESPN video (my test cases), though the playback speed sometimes exceeds the buffer speed, making videos stop and go. Page loads are fast. I'm finding that occasionally, some page loads are incomplete, and emails containing embedded images load slowly or incompletely when asked to update the images (Thunderbird email option). However overall, for browsing web sites and doing email it's a very good experience.
Gogo strongly suggests a proper browsing netiquette: that users browse "appropriate" sites, and that you don't visit sites or do things that could "shock your neighbor" in the next seat. They also don't allow video phone conversations -- though I'm not sure how they police that.
The availability of in-flight internet access removes one of the last barriers to being connected all the time from anywhere... well that and a few dead cell spots in some of the canyons near Golden, Colorado and on route 3A near Winchester and Tewksbury Mass.
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