Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012
Having recently flown on both Virgin America and United on wifi enabled planes, I can say that even in coach where there’s little room for a laptop computer (an iPad would be perfect here), having access to the internet in flight is useful, makes a long flight easier to take, and certainly worth the $7-$12 it costs.
Just keeping up with email, RSS feeds, Twitter, and the news in flight makes it very useful.
Yes, my experience was good too, on United. It made a long flight across the U.S. go well. I’m glad to see more airlines offering this inflight service.
Gary, sort of puts a crimp in your reading time… fewer books and magazines, more email, blogs, tweets. Oh boy.
I’ll be reading the New York Times, your blog, and chatting with you from 30,000 feet, and not have to watch a boring inflight movie! Fun, fun!
Right, and this is what makes it fun, fun, fun and worth the money for sure.
http://gizmodo.com/5462997/mile+high-wi+fi-showdown-which-airlines-the-fastest
Edward: I’ve only tried the wifi on Virgin American and United and United wins that contest, hands down. United uses Gogo networks, not sure what Virgin uses.