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Online Casinos to go Airborne

November 24th, 2007 - Adventure Gaming Blog
Online Casinos to go Airborne

Online casino gambling is being taken to whole new heights with British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Airlines in the next few months. They are all going to be offering their passengers the chance to play mid air games like online bingo as well as the usual movies and audio entertainment. Virgin, has been offering their players this option for two years now but without the chance to bet; they have their own online games portal. The other three airlines will be accessing 888.com to handle their betting needs.

This move is in direction dissention from last years introduction of onboard Texas Hold'em by US carrier Delta Airlines, though this was only done on flights within the country. This game proved to be very popular with travelers who would otherwise have been very bored. With the new system a much wider variety of games will be available and players can pass their time and win money at the same time playing their favorite game. The hopes of the casino involved is of course that some of the players will catch bingo fever and continue to play online once their flight is over and to make everyone's flight more fun for them from the
time they take off.

These carriers are going to of course not offer these services on flights that are leaving from the US. However the US Department of Transportation did a study that suggested that United States carriers, that were operating behind the wall of protection so to speak from the UIGEA could split an extra $300 million a year if gambling were to be allowed
on these flights.

Some people working on the planes have concerns that online casinos and gambling might lead to unruly behavior by the passengers, but rest assured that measures have been taken. Low limits are going to be in place on these games to prevent players from losing more than they can afford on these flights, so one flight won't cost a family a fortune.