American Airlines to add WiFi at Logan

American Airlines said today that it will "move as fast as we can" to offer wireless Internet service at its lounge at Logan International Airport following Wednesday's decision by the Federal Communications Commission affecting WiFi at the airport.

"We don't have an exact timeline but we want to move as fast as we can," a spokesman for the airline said.

On Wednesday, the FCC decisively rejected a two-year-old effort by the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan, to shut down private alternatives to Massport's $8-a-day wireless Internet service.

Continental Airlines Inc. had challenged Massport's move to order Continental to shut down WiFi service at its lounge in Terminal C; the FCC ruled that Massport did not have the authority to issue such an order.

Massport last year ordered American Airlines to stop providing WiFi service at its Admirals Club lounge in Terminal B.
(By Peter J. Howe and Chris Reidy, Globe staff)