Continental Airlines has opted to equip 21 Boeing 757-300s with Aircell’s pay-for-service Gogo in-flight broadband system while following through with a previously-announced plan to offer LiveTV’s basic Kiteline email and messaging service for free on 30 Boeing 737-900ERs.

The move will help the carrier “decide where we think [we’ll] take Wi-Fi in the future”, says a Continental spokeswoman.

Continental will start deploying the air-to-ground (ATG)-based Gogo system on its mostly domestic 757s in the second quarter of 2010.

“Soon, Continental’s passengers will be able to use Gogo to do virtually anything they want on the Internet - e-mail, chat, poke, tweet, download, upload, shop. In short, flying time is about to become their time,” says Aircell president and CEO Ron LeMay.

However, Continental is already in the process of rolling out LiveTV’s latest in-flight television system, the seat-back LTV3 system, on its Boeing domestic fleet, and readying to offer

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