The airline plans to launch a mobile e-mail, web browsing, and texting service from OnAir for two new Airbus A318 aircraft in September.

Nevertheless, it would cost too much air in the light of similar systems at its current aircraft, Walsh said on Wednesday the City Air Transport IT Summit 2009 conference in Cannes, France.

“We have no plans to retrofit equipment for existing aircraft, because we believe that it would be too expensive,” he said.

He added that the airline currently has no plans to travel to make mobile phone calls during their flights, because its customers are not interested in this service.

“The work we have done in the voice tells us that the vast majority of customers do not want it,” he said.

City, a company which specializes in airline IT and communications, said that the 2009 survey shows 70 percent of the 116 global aircraft carriers surveyed plan to introduce Wi-Fi and GSM / GPRS connection on short flights by 2012, and about 65 per cent in During the long flights.

British Airways CIO Paul Coby predicted “interesting” developments in in-flight passenger communications on new planes, but warned it is essential for these posts as “firewalled and separated from the cab.”

He added that the City looks at how modern telecommunications capabilities can be used for automatic transmission and recording flight data, such as that currently being recorded on a “black box” recorders in the databases of airlines.

“This is what we really want to seriously think about the new technologies that are available,” he said.