Online Gambling Goes Airborne

November 14, 2007

For those of you who just love online gambling so much that you hate to get on an airplane for fear of missing out on valuable online casino time, you are now in luck. British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airline, and Singapore Airlines, are now offering online gambling to their customers.

Virgin Airlines was the first to offer access to online casinos, and offered them the ability to play at their Virgin Online Casino – not a bad marketing ploy. The other airlines will begin offering online gambling early next year to all passengers. They will be using 888.com to run their online gambling sites.

888.com has long been flailing in the online gambling world, so the pairing of this company with the airlines is a huge coup for the company. The amount of traffic that this will bring into the site will be tremendous and will help out the online casino greatly.

They will be offering all kinds of online gambling, everything from online slots to blackjack, poker to roulette – anything you can imagine. Not only that, but because they have gotten so advanced in the way that they handle internet connections, each person on the flight will have their own connection so they can all play something different if they choose.

Gambling addiction groups are concerned that by putting online gambling in the airplanes they are opening up a whole new group to gambling. The online casino industry is hoping that this is exactly what happens so that they can start benefiting from the time that people are flying the friendly skies.



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