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American Airlines announces in-flight wi-fi costs

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) on Jan 23rd 2008 at 12:40PM

Our sister site Engadget is reporting that, when American Airlines debuts in-flight Wi-Fi, it will cost $10 for three hours or less, or $12.95 for longer flights. "Rollout," they say, "will begin this summer on AA's 767-200 jets before rolling out across its entire fleet."

So what do you think?

Personally, I don't think it's too bad, as long as the connection is reliable. What I'd be worried about it is a slow, overcrowded link, where I'm paying $10 to browse the Internet at dial-up-or-less speeds. But if it's fast, I can't think of a better way to spend my time on a boring flight -- and $10 really isn't bad. I would have figured that the price would have been higher for a service specifically geared towards business travelers.

Speaking of business travelers, it would make sense if they offered some sort of monthly plan, where frequent fliers pay $100 a month to get them unlimited access on all of their flights. I don't fly enough to take advantage of something like that, but if I did, I'd pay it.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nzm Jan 23rd 2008 7:41PM

Lufthansa had internet services (Connexion by Boeing) available on their flights for a while, and it was great for us as it gave us time to catch up on correspondence and updates to our database in the "downtime" as we travelled between our meetings.

We could Skype message with our work colleagues and friends to catch up on what was happening.

The connection speed wasn't bad - considering that we were in a plane 36,000' in the air, often over the middle of the Atlantic.

LH pulled the service some time back with no real reason given. It seemed a shame that they would go to the expense of kitting out their planes with the required equipment and then stop the service.

Kent Wien Feb 3rd 2008 12:02PM

Lufthansa explained at the time that it was Boeing who was dropping the service. The airline apologized and said that they pleaded with Boeing to keep it alive. In the end they offered the service for free to passengers for the last three months it was active.

I was lucky enough to try it out and I agree. It was really handy.

Willy Jan 25th 2008 7:25AM

Sorry, it should be free.

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