Last week, I told you that you'd be able to get free Wi-Fi midflight on select American Airlines and Virgin American flights this holiday season. Now, thanks to Google, even more travelers will have access to free Wi-Fi.

Today, the search giant announced that it is working with airports around the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income, and others to give you free Wi-Fi. The free service will be available now through January 15, 2010 at 47 airports. To see if your favorite airport is included, or to learn more about Google's plans, visit www.freeholidaywifi.com.

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A few weeks ago, Google introduced the Layers feature for the mobile version of Google Maps. Now, the search giant is adding a new layer to its Maps feature: the New York City Subway System. To see the new layer, view New York City in Google Maps, click the More option, and select Transit Lines. After zooming in, you should be able to see individual station icons. Tap any of the icons to get more information about the station.

You can get the latest version of Google Maps for mobile with Layers by visiting m.google.com/maps from your PDA.

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Recently, Virgin Atlantic began offering an iPhone application for people who are scared of flying. The application puts the company's Flying Without Fear course on a mobile platform to help put travelers' minds at ease. Within the course, you'll get answers to frequently asked questions, relaxation exercises and fear therapy, and more.

Although this application isn't available for PDAs at the moment, I think it's good that more and more creative applications for mobile platforms are becoming available. I welcome your thoughts: What do you think of this new application? Perhaps more importantly, would you use it?

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Virgin America and Google aren't the only ones offering free Wi-Fi this holiday season. Recently, American Airlines and Lexus announced their own plans to offer free inflight Wi-Fi to customers on specially equipped planes from November 1 through November 7. The Gogo Inflight Internet service lets you check email, access social media sites, shop online, read news, and much more from laptops, smartphones, and PDAs. To take advantage of the offer, enter the promotion code 2010LEXUSLS to connect to the service. More information is available at www.aa.com/wifi.

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