Engaget published an interview with Richard Branson the other day, in which he had some promising things to say about VoIP on planes:

If somebody really wants to talk to somebody, we might well have a couple of rows at the back where people can go and make a call there. We wouldn't really want to have people talking next to each other, but a place on the plane where people can make a call if they really wanted to, if we had VoIP, then that might be possible.

I can't imagine they'd section off part of the cabin in today's world of seat revenue chasing, but a plane with Skype in every seat would be even better.

It's a shame that Connexion by Boeing got axed before I had a chance to try it out, but according to Chris Pirillo and Vincent Brousseau Skype worked like a dream.

Maybe SRB can make it happen again...