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American Airlines is continuing with its planned expansion of its in-flight Internet service the company announced today.

The Wi-Fi service is now available on 100 MD-80 aircraft, which is two-thirds of the 150 Gogo installations scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.

American says it was one year ago today that it launched its Gogo in-flight Internet service on 15 Boeing 767-200 aircraft on nonstop flights between New York JFK and San Francisco, Los Angles, and Miami.

Daniel P. Garton
Executive VP-Marketing
American

"We continue to receive positive feedback from customers who use the service to stay connected while in the air," said Dan Garton, American's Executive Vice President-Marketing.

"Our goal is to offer our customers the chance to continue their work or personal business while 35,000 feet above the ground."

In related news Gogo is also celebrating its one-year anniversary of being commercially available on American Airlines.

Gogo service is available fleet-wide on AirTran and Virgin America. Other airlines using the service include Delta, United, US Airways, Air Canada and Northwest (through the Delta merger).

 Gogo says the percentage of customers who connected to its service grew 17 percent in the last year. Both Facebook and Twitter were in the top five of most accessed sites according to Gogo.