A system and method for extending a user's communications services to an
airplane seat telephone terminal proximate the user while the user is
aboard an airplane is provided. The system includes a Subscriber
Interface (SI) for providing a Subscriber Identity Record (SIR) including
the user's flight data and a Universal Communications Address (UCA), and
a Subscriber Location Register (SLR) adapted to receive the subscriber
identity record from the subscriber interface and communicate with a home
location register associated with the user to provide a subscriber
location in response to a telephone call placed to the user's Universal
Communications Address. The Universal Communications Address can be a
Mobile Station ISDN number associated with a wireless user terminal or an
ISDN/PSTN number associated with a wireline telephone of said user.