Virgin America today announced a partnership with AirCell to offer on-board Wi-Fi access on every flight "sometime in 2008."

"We believe that broadband connectivity on our planes will help enhance the inflight experience for our guests," says Virgin America's Charles Ogilvie. "Whether it's IMing with your friends, updating your blog, getting a stock quote, sending photos from your trip to friends, watching a movie or sending a work email, we plan to make it all available on a Virgin America plane."

And as BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin notes, "VA will also be offering what amounts to a fleet-wide, airborne social network. Guests on one plane will be able to interact with other guests on that plane - and with flyers on other planes within the VA fleet - using Red. As I understand it, they've got some pretty ambitious plans in the works for in-flight interactivity. This could get really interesting."

More here from Wi-Fi Networking News ... more here from CrunchGear ... more here from SlipperyBrick ... more here from Gizmodo ... and the press release is here.