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United Adding In-Flight WiFi To 13 Planes

January 14, 2009 at 9:27 AM | by | Comment (1)

We've been vindicated! Back in August 2008, we recklessly wondered if United would be the next airline to install Aircell's Gogo service. As it turned out, Air Canada was next in line, but now, the Chicago Tribune reports, United will join the in-flight internet club.

The carrier is expected to announce today has now officially announced that 13 757s will get WiFi by "the second half of this year," an installation schedule that is as glacial as we've come to expect. While we think of United as a Chicago airline, the Boeings getting Gogo will be those that fly New York to LA and New York to San Francisco, competing against also-Aircell'd carriers American and Virgin America.

While a United spokesman says the service may be expanded to other aircraft eventually, the carrier will wait to see how these first few flights fare in terms of internet use and ancillary revenue generation. The cost? The standard $12.95.

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Virgin

Wow, some real out-of-the-box thinking there. Roll it out on the same routes that Virgin flies. Bah. Why do they bother. And $13 a flight...OK for a long haul I guess, but who will pay that on short hops? Assuming they offer such, of course, anytime in the next 100 years.
tc in dc on January 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM #Permalink

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