The latest Airbus aircraft have been cleared to run the OnAir mobile roaming service (reports SMS Text News ). In essence a low powered base station in the sky, it will allow SMS, email and voice calls to be made while above the regulation 10,000 feet. Air France (France), TAP (Portugal), BMI (UK) and Ryanair (Ireland) have expressed an interest. Looks like I'll be continuing to fly BA and American then.